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when I grew up I wanted to be what my
father was and he was working in the IT
field early early seventies and so by
the time I was born that's all we knew
in the house was IT so it was something
in the field but nothing specific in the
field but IT when I graduated I went to
one year in college at Norfolk State
University
when it comes to the military that that
decision didn't come until after my
first year of college and that basically
was solely on the school that I was
going to and the fact that my father was
paying for school at his pockets so I
just wanted to get into something on my
own and figure out what I wanted to be
rather than working at a job that wasn't
necessarily gonna grow me in the process
so by the time I came around to the
military just because I was in the
military of my job was logistics and
ninety-two Fox that said that didn't
mean that I just stopped at IT so I
always used to mess with computers on my
own and things like that and I also knew
that by the time I get out the military
that's something I would have would
rather go back doing for the long haul I
teach a real broad spectrum when it
comes to IT jobs so I focused on what I
wanted to do mainly and then I said ok
what specifically do they want and a
candidate in those fields and that's
when I turned to Cisco engineering and
network engineering initially and then I
said ok I'm back and forth in Iraq how
could I do school online for one and
then do school online with a school
that's known for you know putting people
out there in the field who's educated in
the IT field
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when it came to me actually getting to
the CCNA certification and everything
like that
I just self-taught myself with a book
online and I ordered some some some
routers and switches online and set up
my own lab at home so here's my lab I
went to ebay and I just like said you
can buy them individually but what I was
looking for was a kit filled with
routers switches it should be enough to
get the ball rolling to study for your
cc in a home lab so I've decided to
create a lab it's because you can only
go so far with just books and words on a
piece of paper telling you how the
internet works you had to get in there
and it's basically getting the router
getting a switch and have some devices
to throw some IP addresses around and
just learn how to program and install
and configure there
a first year nightie was just just
absorbing everything that I could when
it come to the job that I had to do but
I initially came on I was an l1 IT
support guy I think that was a title but
once I got promoted I became a Cisco
voice engineer some of the main things
that we was doing on a day to day when
it come to the actual technical side of
things that's
configuring ports on the router
configuring ports on the switch
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my first day of IT been Who I am always
gonna go and you know been in the woods
and Iraq studying for my exam that was I
think I don't know what happened to me
but it was like a rush and I thought I
started accomplish a thing and said okay
how far can i really go so day one I
remember telling one of my co-workers I
said it's not my last stop and that's
prior to me even buying my own home but
I knew it was something else out there
that's I'm gonna you know strive to
because I wanted to be my own boss but
when I bought my own home I wanted to
you know start to get into real estate
and start investing in real estate I am
a licensed Texas broker and I am the
owner of ready front real estate when I
was purchased in my home as a veteran it
was way too hard to find information and
I like like I said I lost 400 bucks in
the process I decided to go ahead and
try to create my own organization that's
when Texas operation give back was born
Texas operation give back is it
nonprofit that I am proudly the CEO of
and it focuses on Veterans home buying
financial literacy and give it back to
the veteran community the advice that I
would have to service men in general
those who are in the military getting
ready to transition and those who have
served is understanding that life is
temporary and it is a life after the
military so do not be afraid to start
that process and learning what you want
to do way before it's time for you to
get out because you want to get out hit
the ground running sure you may not have
everything in place once you get out but
you don't want to start from day zero
you know when you get out you always
want to have that that peace that you
want to connect as far as I start to get
the ball rolling
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