My experience as a network engineer, and some advice for newcomers!

My journey from growing up without electricity and running water to being one of the senior network guys managing a territory 10x the size of my motherland still makes me shake my head. These inspiring networking videos keep me going even when sometimes I feel like an imposter from a different world.

Enjoyed this. Got CCNA certified a year ago and now I am 3 weeks into being a junior network engineer at a mid size company. I just diagramed our network and also did some work with assigned dhcp reservations for new printers on the print vlan.

Passed my ccna on first attempt on 28th Dec 2023 . People thought I couldn't make it but I proved them wrong . I am a woman with a child , holding a full time job .

thanks for sharing!! had a similar way in my career and now i am managing, monitoring and planing networks for a data center in austria and i would have never thought to work on such a scale (county and country wide spanning networks and paths) and i just love it and many of your videos gave me a new confidence and better understanding for some topics which were rather complex to me in the first place and know some of them "oh so fancy concepts" (like VRF) are more like an "easy going" principle as stated - thank you so much for creating your content here and sharing

I love your story, and I feel a lot of people have something similar. I'm currently studying for my CCNA while working as an IT Operations Specialist, and once I feel confident I'm gonna start applying. My dad was a network engineer when I was growing up and now he's a network security analyst III so that's where I got my IT knowledge and inspiration from. I'm about to move offices and I'm gonna be by myself with the routers, switches, and servers so I'm going to see if my org has stuff lying around where I can create a physical lab.

Thank you for sharing your journey into networking. Your an awesome dude.

nice to hear . that's pretty much how it went with me and how quickly you knew how it was put together

Very interesting story, thank you. And now I'm working as a regular system administrator (8 years) and now I'm actively studying to become a network engineer, this also inspires me. A c++ programmer by education. Basically, I come up with tasks for myself, watch you and do lab tests in EVE NG))

thank you boss this was helpful in deed

I took a class for networking earlier this year and then lost focus...thank you for this video. Youve inspired me to work back at it.

20:04 I've just recently finished my first homelab to use for testing various vulnerable VMs : Pfsense > Kali > Splunk (SIEM) > DC with a few win machines > Security Onion as IDS > a few vulnerable VMs. The best bit was trying to design, the route/the path, deciding who can communicate with whom, who should be discoverable, or who should be completely isolated. Should packets go only one way or both etc etc.. All in all, thanks for sharing your experience! I am career switching and your down to earth personality is amazing! Subed!

You made me feel better about myself, Started from layer 1 laying the cable. But I feel like stuck down there.

Good info my friend

Enjoyed this

That sound brings so many memories, my first connection was in 1991.

Awesome video

My big goal is to become an expert cyber security engineer with a broad range of knowledge over its different aspects (cloud environment, pentesting, automation, etc) But in order to do that, I have to master one of its foundation. Thats why I wanna be a network engineer first. I did an internship for implementing a SD-WAN network and graduated uni, few months later I got my CCNA. Now I don't know how I'll actually find a job. Junior Network engineer/administrator is out of scope because there's so few jobs openings for them in my area and they're always asking for 3 years of experience (I have none) People have advised me to start with IT help desk/NOC.

You are the best!!!

Hi, I am very Interested in waking down this path, any advice for someone who is currently an iT Mobile technician wanting to transition into to role role mentioned ie monitoring network engineer? Subs to your channel 🙂

How about someone who isn’t going through school to a degree and plan on gaining experience by trying to get into an internship or a training program, that is outside of school? Cause I’m trying to I don’t got a degree I got Google IT support cert and going to get a Comptia Network+ through Coursera it’s cheaper tho it may not be much but it gets my foot in the door of knowledge.