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109. How To Get Started in IT

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Zach Hill Technology is my passion, helping others is my purpose. I have over 15+ years of experience working in the Information Technology field. From early beginnings at the age of 12 dissecting my family’s computer, I knew that there was something about computers that would spark my interest for a long time to come. The early years of my career started with web development which eventually opened the doors as a desktop support consultant for residential and small business. Outside of the private consulting world much of my career has been focused on school districts and healthcare.

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0:00.0

You know, somebody could come to me and because somebody, you know, told them being a network engineer is cool and you can make a lot of money or, you know,

0:17.0

somebody told them working in security is great. So, you know, go work in security, but they're like, how do I do that?

0:23.1

And then that's where they kind of find me.

0:24.9

And so when people come to IT group questions, they're like, you know, how do I get started?

0:29.7

How do I get started in IT?

0:31.0

Where are the steps that I take?

0:32.4

So, you know, for IT crew questions, it's that fundamental level of, you know, where, where and what do I do to get started in this field.

0:43.9

So that's, you know, I guess that's where I come into play and I kind of help people.

0:49.0

And I guess really at that, like I said, that fundamental ground level of, you know, ask, I prompt them with questions back.

0:55.7

Like, what are you interested in? What makes you interested in IT in general? Or what are the different

1:00.3

areas of IT that excite you, et cetera? And we kind of filter through that. So a lot of the,

1:06.0

a lot of the content that you find there is like trying to piece together, I guess, like these different

1:13.4

journeys that people can take to transition their way through this field. So from help desk to

1:19.8

sysadmin to, you know, security to cloud, to managers, directors, it's, you know, let's figure out

1:27.2

what this journey looks like. So, you know, let's figure out what this journey looks like.

1:29.0

So,

1:29.3

you know,

1:30.2

I'll have not only myself on there kind of helping people,

1:33.4

but I love to bring on guests,

1:35.9

you know,

1:36.6

from-

1:36.9

People are going to be wondering,

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