A day in the life of a Network Engineer - Personal Life Update

This is where i want to be. I know it will take a couple years. I’m still in college

I'm currently NOC Engineer right now and I want to transition to NetEng position. Having an experience of 1 year with a CCNA certification. Is it enough for the transition already?

Yeah this also sounds exactly like what I want to be doing. I'm currently in college studying for an associates in IT and I've always wanted to be a network admin/engineer. I'm a little older (33), probably closer to your age to be honest. I've always been a computer nerd and I've been doing computer stuff since I was little but I never had any formal education or training, just doing hobby and self-taught stuff. I am planning to get the CCNA by the end of the year, and I just recently got my CCST: Networking for a start. I have a year left until I get my associates, and hopefully with that and the CCNA cert, I'll be able to get something entry level. Networking is definitely the most interesting thing to me in the vast space of IT.

I feel like with your knowledge you can go for CCIE instead of CCNP

did you need a clearance for that job ?? ts or just regular secret ?

Nice home office desk! I appreciate your content and how you get straight to the point.

I’m currently working in customer service across different industries (Gaming, Finance, EV Mobility) and am 26 years old. I'm thinking about moving forward and transitioning into a more technical role.

Do you think certifications like CompTIA A+ and Network+ are worth pursuing, or would it be better to go directly for the CCNA? My goal is to start in IT Support and eventually move into Networking.

Best regards,

Anyone else have a career change at 32? i have no IT experience or Networking experience, but I am studying my CCNA with Jeremy and Neil on udemy. Any tips , advice for a 32 old lady to start in a whole new career? Coming from healthcare backgroud lol

Hey man, as someone who works in a IT helpdesk in a big school district dealing with various it related problems such as hardware and simple software fixes, how hard would it be to study and go for Ccna? I would really like to go for network engineering but I feel like it would be too hard for me lol, but I am not too sure. I have some familiarity with networking etc. but what would your suggestion be for someone like my self who’s currently working 33 years old but wants a better path.

Hey man pretty cool to hear your background and what you are currently doing as a Network eng. deffinitely helps paint a better picture for us out here trying to get started in the Field. Im 35 and Im just beginning my Networking Journey trying to get my CCNA here in a few months. I appreciate the time you took to put this video up and you should keep at it and upload more so that we out here can get more real life insight of what it is like working in the networking field. Any real world scenarios, tools , advice anything that could help us aspiring network admins engineers ,etc ,would be sweet. Awesome , THANKS!

I have some questions for the Network Engineer profession in today’s modern world. Any of these questions that can be answered is most appreciated.

Do you work with colors? I am Protan (red/green) colorblind.

Do you work with and have to be good at high level math?

Does your work involve coding and do you recommend knowing it the way automation is going? I’m not skilled at high level math, so this concerned me. I also tried an HTML/CSS coding course during my associates degree in college and it was very confusing to me and hard to understand. I haven’t done any other programming languages. This also concerns me if coding is used in this profession. I don’t know if a bachelors from a good accredited school would be a good help or not.

Do you recommend to get a bachelors degree or stick with certifications and gaining experience? What if you don’t have the time and/or money to be in school? Will you be able to stand out from competition with those who hold bachelors degrees or higher?

Is this profession doable for someone who suffers back pain?

Does your company value skills or education more?

Do you believe this profession will be replaced by AI?

I’m currently studying for the CCNA and enjoy watching these type of videos from people who are actually doing the job. Hopefully by the beginning of next year I’ll get my CCNA. I’m more so trying to get a network firewall engineer or analyst role since I’m learning about firewalls such as the Palo Alto devices and etc.

do you need to on call and work night shift？

Lol this is my life right now ditto. Been working on networking for over 15 years...worked for a few big companies. Now a senior network admin at an engineering firm. Been WFH for about 5 years straight and I totally get your comment about cabin fever! Plus I also got an 8 year old and a 10 year old.

Sounds like you had a good teacher in Billy "Dos" Byrd, lol. I hope you're doing well, man.

Is it difficult to stay up to date with tech outside of work? And do you need to constantly get new certs? Thank you so much for this video!

Cool video Matt 👌👌

Super Dope!!!

I had a prelim interview for a noc role with verizon and the 1 nonnegotiable was hybrid in TX 😢 For a while I regretted not moving for the job but I got lucky and ended up in a DC NOC doing a lot of the same things, we basically serve as an isp noc and I feel the same way about the immense amount of info learned. Bgp ospf firewalls f5 learning how to talk to zayo, its been awesome

I just got hired as a Network Engineer. I started as a Cable Tech years ago and worked my way up. Networks always fascinated me I knew when I first seen a data center that I wanted to dive deeper into this. Thanks for the video man I am looking forward to more. Much network love from Oregon.

Thanks for sharing your in depth experience. I hope that I get a network engineer position in my town
I'm got my bootcamp certification for skills (routers & switches based on ccna) & im also looking to get my ccna within 3 months.

When he was talking about his job at what is now optimum what was the exact name of that job I would be interested in learning more about it

Hey I am a little lost on where to start. I don't have any college or certs done but I do want to get into network engineering. In today's age, where do you recommend for someone like me to start learning or what certs to get first. Also what type of entry level jobs can I start applying to to starting getting my feet in the door? should I first work on some certs and then apply or can I just start applying now? Great vids and keep up the great work!

sir what is Verizon (if i'm spelling good), and which positions of network engineer you can work from home? thank you

Hey there! What are your thoughts on someone who wants to work in IT, currently have a masters in Criminology, but have absolutely no experience in the field of IT? What's an ideal pathway?

Sounds cool! I'm not a network professional.... yet. I work in K-12 IT as an IT tech. We work with a wide variety range of technology and even work with the network infrastructure a bit - mainly patching in VOIP phones, Wi-Fi APs, and teacher workstations. I had taken a few Cisco courses at a community college years ago and my plan is to get my CCNA. I just need to study for it again. Its a lot of information that you loose if you don't use it.

If you don't mind me asking, what would you say are your favorite and least favorite parts about your job? I know its sounds kind of cliche, but I'm always curious.

Another question that just came to mind. For your current job, how much would you say having the CCNA helped?

The key thing I learned was you had a decade of experience already and I'm sure that was major for them in letting you work remotely.

hi matt , i am also a network engineer from India , i have also ccna and i am 21 + year old . so happy to see that a ccna can get us this far

Hi Matt, thank you this helps a lot as aspiring network engineer thank you for the information though i just graduated few months ago and still lacking in experience i hope to also found some mentor that would help me really appreciated hope to see more of your videos from Philippines.

Hi Matt I am Ritik I m working as an Offshore for comcast .
Happy to explore your channel .... can you tell me how your planning your 24 hours in detailed way ....

I'm currently 23 and in my Master's final year (CS). Any suggestions how to be a network engineer?

am about to get into these career any recommendations
on how to go about it. am in Nigeria

I have a diploma in networks, but for those who are lucky enough to work in this specialty, I may not have been serious enough. Now I am 35 years old. Can I get my first job in networks at this age, or is it difficult?