136. IT Fires Are Everywhere: Suit Up Your Solutions and Save Your Mental Health with Colin Keys

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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Colin Keys is an amalgamation of paradoxes with an exceptional ability to rise above uncertainty and instability to solve complex and ever changing problems. He holds a professional background in IT Operations & Management, project management for technology, residential and heavy civil construction, information security, and software deployment and Implementation. And while he came to the technology field later in life, it has been the most rewarding career field. IT Fires Are Everywhere: Suit Up Your Solutions and Save Your Mental Health with Colin Keys In IT, you’ll get used to putting out emerging fires. On this episode of the Dissecting Popular IT Nerds Podcast, discover a better way to manage this stress by asking the right questions before bringing a solution to management. Guest Colin Keys, high-level IT director, shows how to suit up your solutions–whether you’re an outsider just entering IT or a veteran of tech. Tune in with host Phil Howard and determine how to discern trustworthy vendors, drop the stigma around mental health at work, and as a bonus: talk about new, 3D-printed goggles.

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0:00.0	So I did go back to school and study computer information systems.
0:05.0	And that was a big plus.
0:08.0	But really a lot of my education was getting my internship.
0:16.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:24.7	Today we are talking with Colin Keyes, and I encourage everybody, highly, highly encourage you to search him, find him on LinkedIn.
0:38.7	And what you will see is a similar spitting image of myself with a real significant beard.
0:48.7	I love it.
0:49.9	I want to applaud you for people.
0:53.2	You must get a lot like, hey, really cool beard guy.
0:56.9	How long did that take you?
0:58.0	Do you get that common question a lot?
0:59.2	Like, how long did that take you?
1:01.4	I get that question a lot.
1:04.9	And coincidentally, I actually started growing the beard out right before I switched to working
1:10.8	in IT. So it's almost, I always
1:12.7	knew it as a connection. But I do get it a lot, mostly at stores, but a lot of times when
1:21.5	I'm on sales calls, we'll get it. I had one wrap at one company who at times I thought was a bit to obsess with my beard. So, in fact, when I was a one rap at one company who at times I was a bit too obsessed with my beard.
1:30.0	So in fact, when I trimmed it once over the summer, he was like almost upset that I cut my
1:37.0	beard.
1:38.6	What's wrong with you?
1:40.8	Exactly.
1:42.8	Sometimes I put on a shirt and I forget to pull my beard out of the shirt.
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