From Zero to Cloud Engineer in 6 months

15:30 Conclusion

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[BrunO-dyro]

Hello Chilled one, just letting you know that it's been about year and half or so since I started following your channel. I was an IT Support Analyst and started following your "Zero to Cloud" video. In the meantime I did a cyber certification, a devops cert, applied to a SE bootcamp at my workplace. The bootcamp is almost finished and I secured a DevOps job, considerably more amount of money but my motivation is the learning part, the money will come as I become more proficient. Please accept this "lil sum sum" as an acknowledgement of my appreciation. Thank you so much again! Im not done yet. Next stop is becoming a Cloud Engineer. Keep up the good work, youre changing lives out here. ❤Thanks

[MadeByGPS]

Hi for all those asking, here's my advice on how to get into tech, most tech influencers would charge you $$$ or sell you some BS twitter eBook for this so I'd appreciate a Like and Sub ;) This is exactly what I did to go from $15 an hour selling iPhones to working my way up to $175k base salary


Start in support, work your A$$ off in that role for a year and upskill in your free time. I know support roles get bad rep and people wanna skip it but trust me it gives you a range of high-level skills that are great for next roles, especially documenting, ticketing systems, and troubleshooting.


Besides upskilling, get 2 most relevant certs for the role you want (research this, openupthecloud.com/role is helpful), build as many projects as you can and most importantly document them somehow, this will help you practice when it comes to interviewing. After a year in support, I think that's enough experience to leverage for a next role.


When applying to your next role don't pay too much attention to the role title and care more about the description. Plenty of roles will give you cloud exposure without having "cloud" in the title. Once you feel like you have 50% of the job requirements in the job post, apply! Tailor your resume, tailor your cover letter. I know people complain about having to write cover letters often but trust me it makes a difference (I have a video on this too if you want to use my Microsoft cover letter as an example).


Most importantly my friends, learn how to learn. Yes, you can be self-taught. Learning something technical is hard but trust me the sooner you take the time to learn how you learn best, the better. There's this ted talk called learning how to learn that is fantastic. Bootcamps and such will sell you dreams and yes, I get some people need that type of guidance, but I just don't see how they are worth the several tens of thousands that they charge when you can teach yourself everything at home.


Attend free meetups and networking events, don't try to leech of people, bring value to relationships. Be honest, authentic, kind, and work hard.


You can do this, I know you can,
GPS.

[stevencoto]

A big emphasis on project work. Has really helped me learn by going hands on and bashing my head against the wall(no punt intended on "bash" lol) when getting stuck and figuring things out. I am now a cloud support engineer and still learning. Thanks G for going over this 🙏.

[GuardianApe]

Thank you for doing this . No one else has been as straight forward as you've been on this topic.

[oscarvasquez]

This was awesome. I run a dev team for cloud and helping people figure out how to get started has been my new thing and happened upon your video while doing some research.

[jimmyohdez]

3.5 years on the help desk and I’m finally moving on to a cloud analyst position. Super nervous but I’m excited that all the hard work paid off and I’m diving deeper into tech.

[citycen]

I turned my laptop to an PopOS machine and run Kali in a VM on it. The help you are giving out is amazing. I find my self leaning towards cloud security as I finish school and this is a lot of help and super true. Specially the Linux basics for hackers book, such an amazing book. Good luck to anyone starting, don’t give up, it’s not easy a a lot of sleepless nights sometimes. You got this.

[munayezchowdhury]

Wow!! This is so classified and well oriented. Thank you so much! I was actually looking for something like this and finally I got it

[bdeazy]

I'm a service desk lead, 2 years in. Just got server fundaments cert. I was gonna go for sys admin but I think I'll go a step further and stick with learning cloud. Taking az-900 this week. Credit you and using some azure at work for making me interested in this new path!

[nicholaslindesmith]

Your info keeps getting more succinct and helpful the more I watch. Wow!

[effortfullearning]

GPS, I just wanted to echo my thanks to you for laying out the steps as you have here! You have made it easy to understand and follow! I am glad that you have pieced together everything the way you did as you already did the leg work and had to figure out as much as you did prior to any of us following the same path! Please keep it up as you deliver actual useful content, and it is only those who I will allow the ads to run for! I will make that promise to let the ads runs to their extent just because of the useful content you leave here for us and I hope others understand and do the same! 🙏

[jstreifel]

I really liked your video! You laid everything out in a well organized and straight to the point manner, while also adding in some additional notes with each topic you mentioned. Loved it! Thank you!

[saurabhdave]

this is the first video which gave everything soo smoothly and systematically thank you very very much for the information.

[hortsss]

This is the content I needed. I've worked with cloud before but on project managing positions so I kinda knew what my competences should be to work as an Engineer, but I lacked the organization and plan to study it. Your guide is very complete and will for sure help me switch career path. Thank you very much!

[cyclewithaspen]

I literally just started my first help desk position, I know that working with the cloud is where I want to be but I couldn't find any guides on how to go about that. Your video was so helpful in giving me an idea of where I need to focus my free time!

[blevenzon]

Also would add, when learning some Linux, you already mentioned grep get familiar with awk and regex.

[brendachirata]

Linux and network(Linux for hackers), Freecord camp course. Programming. Python.
Cloud platform, using CLI.
DevOps (use free courses).

[daniel-boplehnimely]

Sharp and in-depth knowledge. You seem to be a good mentor.

[arghyadeepdhar]

GPS you achieved so much without a college degree and its really motivating.I am very happy that I found this channel.great content!!!

[Vdrtez]

Always appreciate the content. I been studying and trying to get a get in cloud. I must say, your content has definitely helped tremendously. Ty ty.