Well, hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Dissecting Popular ID Nerds.

Today, Mike Kelly is going to be interviewing John Hust.

So John, why don't you give us a little of your background and tell us about

where you came from and how you became a popular IT nerd. Yeah, hey, Mike. Thanks for having me on.

You know, I started in, you know, back in 92, I'm dating myself a little bit. I, you know, I had a child, and back then, everybody wanted experience, right?

Hey, you know, come work for me, but you need experience.

And then I was like, how can I get experience if I can't get a job, right?

So I did find a temporary job with a telecom company and I was just cleaning off 66 blocks

with that company and I'm like, well, this is this is not going to work long term.

It was just a part-time gig and I decided to join the Air Force and I got pretty lucky in

the Air Force.

I was put into the telecom world,

which really started me down the path of IT. So I started with layer one of the OSI model,

running cables, punching down telephone cables in Germany, you know, tip ring A1A, if you're, if you're familiar with that.

And, you know, I spent 24 years in the Air Force, four years in active duty, 10 years in the Air Force reserves in Milwaukee,

and 10 years in the Guard in Tennessee. So I got all aspects of the Air Force.

And it gave me a lot of leadership opportunities within the Air Force.

I got out of the telephone world and went into desktop support,

moved to server support within the Air Force,

which obviously that's a great job on the outside, right? It was a not many people in the military get a job that they can translate directly to the outside workforce. So I just I just worked my way up. So again, go ahead.

I was going to, you know, actually, you're talking about doing stuff in 92 and saying that that

dates you. I think what you were dusting off dates you more than that because I bet you there's like

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