 All right, let's see if this is working last stream. This one extremely well So we're gonna see if it works as well Okay. Oh, I Can see myself This is a good sign We're just getting checked in. We're just starting a few minutes early. I see people in the chat already So I'm just getting started Awesome awesome. Yeah, so about I don't know a month ago I decided I was like I'm really gonna step up my game in terms of like streaming because the quality that I had been putting out previous to this was pretty subpar So I decided I was gonna do better and so I bought some new stuff that makes it nicer and From everything I know it's supposed to be good. Let me check it really quick. Oh Maybe I can't check it. Give me a second It's on my headphones. Give me give me one second. I am gonna check it just to Be sure it's working All right, it's working good. All right. Cool. I see a ton of people joining I'm gonna start saying hi to everybody and then we'll get started and I'll kind of lay out our agenda for the night Which there is not much of an agenda But we will We'll still start going cuz I see a bunch of people. All right. We got Kenny Ikra lilac Nick Arthur. Hey My man Matthew. He's our moderator So if you guys start misbehaving I have both Matthew and CJ who are both moderators in the chat. They will kick you out Matthew more so But we have Salma putting a pudding John Paul Gabe the data analyst. I like that name um Lilac good night from the Caribbean I would love to be in the Caribbean. That sounds fantastic Another Matthew Victoria Nick to I see I accidentally skipped some people Oh, jeez. There's a lot of people. Is this is already going great Deborah I'll see now. I'm just reading off a bunch of names Let's see Hey everybody I see a bunch of people in the chat. I see you guys saying hi. I would call you out by each person But there's too many to read um, let's see Okay, cool. It is a party Jared. It is a party. So Tonight is really just a celebration Of the channel of you guys um I do this basically every time I hit like the next milestone. Um, so right now it's been like every 50 000 I've just been doing another live stream and what we typically do is nonsense tomfoolery and I usually do some type of giveaway Which is always really fun because people like getting free stuff. Um, and I like giving away stuff For this one. So what I had to do in the past is I put up like this, um Giveaway thing that you can go and register for and then I pick your name and then we come here But I realized over the past couple times that there are people who are signing up who don't come and then I like announce it And they don't know So we're completely changing at this time to where I am just going to pick people in the chat Um, so if you are here When I am picking or throughout this stream, I'm not going to pick them all at one time But throughout the stream, I'm going to be like hey you that person You get it Um, and it's going to be completely biased. I'm going to only choose people. I know and like no, I'm just kidding It'll be as best I possibly can at random But we'll be giving out some udemy courses Um, so udemy I just was like, hey, you want to throw on some free courses? And they're like absolutely because udemy is great. Um, and then I'm going to be doing some one-on-one Sessions with people so I'll be doing three of those um, and so What those entail is basically just meeting with me one-on-one for an hour We go through anything you want to go through resume portfolio Next steps if you're in your job that you're you know one advice on or we can just chat And just get to know each other and know each other on a more personal level So that could also be the case but Let's see. Now that I've been talking for a while. I gotta go back to the chat and see what's going on here um Also, I see a bunch of people Yeah, people are gonna get it happens almost every time somebody gets banned There's some like spam account that comes into the chat somebody gets banned almost every single time um And it's always always lively Uh, I've got some people from New York Welcome army Nigeria very cool very cool Let's see Awesome Awesome awesome. Yeah, that's what's gonna happen. This is also a wine stream. Um I have this now. I don't drink a lot. So this to me is like The equivalent of what an average person is like maybe two glasses for an average person This is one large glass for me, which is more than enough I've already started and I'm just sipping on it. What am I drinking tonight? So this is do we get this at Costco? What was that? Okay So this is from Publix. Let me see if I can get this let me see if I can get this in focus This is um Maybe if you couldn't see if it wasn't if I didn't wait to see if it focused, but it's stela rosa Product of Italy. That's probably not true um Yeah, I don't even know what kind of wine this is I Don't know it's a cheap wine from Publix Which is basically like a nicer target or like a shopping a grocery store target Anyways, um, so that's what I'm drinking tonight. I also have water, you know, just in case things get crazy Um, I always have some water Another part of these live streams and I'm just prefacing this because every time I do one of these I always have new people But something else I typically try to do is play some type of oops Play some type of music Not because I think it's a smart thing to do. I just think it's um a funny thing to do because typically on my My you know videos or my other live streams are more serious Whereas this one's just like, you know, I'm just we're just trying to have fun um Yeah, Matthew knows Matthew knows He says Publix is dope. That's because Publix is amazing. Very good They have a good bakery section too um Pub sub and some wine for the what's pub sub is that this? Oh, we just we've just been My wife and I have just been eating the subs at Publix lately and they're quite good. Um, I like jalapenos on mine. Um, that's not just a bit For the for the videos. That is I genuinely like them um So all that to say Um, I I've already seen people and again, we're just getting into this. We got lots of time I just want to say I will answer some questions later on. I see people putting questions in the chat I'm just we're just hanging out for now. We're just chilling. Um Yep, Char Charmilla. She knows she said the bakery in Publix is amazing. I'm telling you Publix is out there. Um Um Yes subs from Publix equals Pub sub. I it's a new thing to me. I we literally just started eating them like a month ago Uh, but they're pretty good. They're pretty good. Um All that to say Is that's kind of how our streams go or these these like milestone streams My other streams where I do like data analysts q and a's Which i'm going to be having one At the end of this month We're going to have a monthly live stream where I answer everybody's questions That's purely answering questions. That's more professional and serious. This is more fun. It's all that to say. That's what we're doing tonight There is no agenda There is and I probably should have one if I was a better streamer I would have one But there's no agenda. There's no, um Itinerary for tonight is just going to be having fun. Um, and my wife is Holding some laundry hanging out. So I'll probably chat with her throughout the evening and get her take on things Uh But that's about it. She didn't want to do the wine thing and I I respect that Um, I I really do Um, but thank you. I see I see some people, you know saying congrats on 300. Thank you guys so much Um, I really really appreciate it and actually before we get started Thank you guys so much. I mean this this is 100 for you guys And for me to drink some wine but You know this Everything that's been happening on the channel with the new you know, like the python series and These giveaways and all this all these live streams that we're going to be doing and have been doing for the past couple months It's all because of you guys and it's super super fun. I've just been getting like Really into it and like really investing in it because you guys are getting really invested in it and really into it and so everything that you guys do and you guys like Send me and the emails and the messages and the posts like those things like I love it And I get energized for it and it makes me excited and hitting these milestones is just You know really brings everything home because you know Throughout the week or the month or even this year. I'm just kind of like, you know, I have a full-time job I I have a family. I I get Very much into those things. I get very caught up And then every so often I'll like kind of sit down. I'm like, okay, where are we? And I'll look at I'm like, oh my gosh, like this is amazing. So, you know, we just have a really great community Um some shoutouts before we get into things Thank you. Thank you. I'm reading the chat. Thank you guys. I I see the I see the messages Someone wrote you are Yoda for us I like that Thank you, Marcella. I appreciate that I appreciate that awesome. Yeah, but um Um, oh, what was I gonna say? I was gonna say something and then I started reading the chat Awesome But um, all that to say is, you know, we're at 300 and I'm like I'm like, it's still going up. Like, you know, there's we're gonna hit 350 and 400 We're just gonna keep going up and I have so much content like I have I have um I showed it in one of my live streams a while ago. I have so much content Um, I think I have all over still over 150 videos Written not written out, but like ideas and I have about 50 videos I've already written out and ready to like record and make so I am I have no shortage of ideas and content that I think is like genuinely good. I'm like if I you know I still I am always thinking like I wish Uh, or what can I make that I think will really help people? I still have so many so many things. So, um, whoa, I was gonna do plugs um Plug for you to me. Thank you guys so much for the free stuff If you guys haven't checked out like the discord or my twitter linkedin Instagram, I've been doing instagram a lot lately But really been getting into twitter if I'm being honest because the twitter crowd the data crowd on twitter is pretty wild They're um, they're a rowdy bunch. I'm sure there are some in here But my linkedin crowd is like my more professional crowd and then my twitter crowd is like Like just like wild about data. That's pretty it's pretty funny. So um, awesome Let's see. Um, okay. Again, I still see people asking questions. I'm gonna answer questions later on Um, okay. So where do we want to start? I think that One of the best places to start is just to Uh, play a small song We'll go from there. Uh start off the night right at least it's nighttime where I am I know it's early morning for some people We'll we'll start off the night right Uh with a nice song. I don't know what I'm gonna sing. I'll get your feedback See what you guys want me to sing about and then uh, I think we'll Give some stuff away Not everything but we'll give some things away and then We'll move on from there. So Let's see. Um, do you guys would you guys rather me play my ukulele or my guitar? I will wait for a chat response on this because Um, either one's fine for me Hey melody. How's it going? Melody's come to almost all of the live stream. So I feel like I definitely like notice the people who show up to my To all of them Because there's there's probably like about 15 or 20 that I'm like, okay I was like, I recognize you. Okay. We got some guitar. Oh a lot of guitars Oh, okay. Okay Okay. Oh man. All right. This is a lot closer. Okay. It's definitely guitar It's gotta be guitar Okay, there's a lot more people. All right, let me just There's a lot more people saying something that I thought that was gonna happen We'll start off with the guitar and then We will go on to the ukulele after um And then and that's it Now, let me see. Let me see what this looks like. Okay. So you guys can't see a thing Um I actually used to play the mandolin. I haven't played it in a long time um But I used to But no, this is an acoustic guitar. I bought this. Um I bought this in high school No college I just got my first like part-time job And bought a guitar so Now the secret not the secret The wine's already getting to me guys Now what we need to figure out is um What are we gonna sing about I am willing to take just about any request keep a pg-13 Our pg I mean it's up to you. It shouldn't be anything crazy in the chat But give me some ideas something some inspiration. Um, I genuinely have no idea what I'm going to sing. This will be completely random Let's see someone already said a love ballad the sequel Which is weird Um, I might do it CJ recommended it actually so That's legitimate. Um When I say requests what I don't mean is like hey there Delilah, which I'm sure I could play Um I was thinking more like I mean and I could I could look up a song look up the lyrics and sing it to you Oh, which could be fine. But I was thinking more like What's it? What's it called when um You make up songs Improv I was thinking more like improving a song. Um That's at least how I've historically done it and not done it well, but Stairway to heaven country road. See now you're just the fun song by spongebob Yeah, freestyle shatara. Thank you. I'm glad improv Yeah Okay, um, I don't know I don't know Let's see And I don't know how this sounds it um, I'm gonna play something really quickly Help me if it just if you can actually hear it well and it sounds good So then I know that if I actually try to play you'll be able to hear it because if not, then Uh, I don't know song about stress Song about luke that could be good No, Luke's not in here, but somebody Okay, does that sound good can you guys hear that? Okay, good um Someone wrote one about luke and my wife like that one. So I might do that um There's so many there's just so many characteristics that make luke unique that I could sing about, you know um Song about data About luke are if marcello is saying it I might do it Um about being stressed. I might combine some of these I Love the chat the chat makes me laugh All right um Now luke if you're out there This one's for you, buddy. I don't know what I'm gonna say and I don't know where luke is You'd think that if he cared about me as much as you think he does he'd be here, but he's not It's not the first time he's let me down Um All right. All right. I'm just getting more inspiration stressed about luke The man's coming for me. He's gunning. He's gunning for my number one spot A public's ballad now. That's a good one That's a good one, uh publics is pretty great Uh, the first time I had ever shopped is when we moved out to south carolina I don't think we had publics out in um out in dallas I don't think we did Let's see You know what I always do that tune that tune always comes to my head Let me think I gotta think of oh, what's that? Um That tune I'm thinking of a song that I want to do the tune of Oh, the tuning is just standard tune just standard I can see it on its face. He always makes me smile. I don't know if it's me talking offline But luke makes me smile Yes, luke makes me smile He's got good videos I wish I could do what he does But I don't even try One It's like a love song to luke now Yeah, guys, I don't know where this is going. I was just you know, luke's a good guy luke's a good guy I don't know where I was going with that guys all right I think um I think the wine's already getting to me and I could tar on my hand singing about luke as if it's just a recipe for a disaster All right, I'm breaking out the ukulele My wife says it's time for a giveaway I will um I'll be doing a giveaway right after this next song, which I don't know what I'm gonna be singing about Um, but somebody send that to luke he needs to he needs to know how I feel He's a good guy Let me just I'm gonna wait till it catches up so I can see where this is positioned. So if you guys can see it You can at least see Let's see. Okay Do we have any ideas or thoughts about this one? um, I will say typically when I sing the ukulele, although it may not May not make sense at this moment. Usually when I play guitar, it's more like energized and when I play ukulele It's more like soft and slow Um, I just got really sentimental apparently in this lot that last song. I don't apologize Um, so do we have any ideas? Do we have any ideas? Aaron, I tried the violin during covet failed attempt. Yeah Violin that I don't know if I would be good at violin. That's tough poor alex alex w Sing about balling and heading down a similar path Aren't we all um I would do a concert Sing about ken that might be too That might be too much singing about Yeah, there's nothing good to say about ken guys. I wish I could Somewhere over the rainbow. I don't know if I um Let me see if I know I I usually have like this um tabs thing that gives me tabs to think Let me see if I even know how to play that I might play it a little bit, but I'm looking for suggestions Um The ukulele is not named luke. I used I did I I did have a name for it. I want to say it was um Not leila something with an L. I can't remember All right, let me see No, I don't know how to play well. I know how to Some some of it, but I don't know it well enough Well, let me look at this one Yeah, okay I kind of know this I know this enough see I got a lot of people I I mean, is that the only song people know in the ukulele is somewhere over the rainbow Because that is literally what everyone is put is putting I'm yours by jason maras. That's a that's a classic I respect that. All right. I'll sing I'll sing maybe I'll just sing something safe Something that has lyrics because if you start opening up this brain, apparently it just sings about luke. I I don't know um Let me see Let me see. I don't know how if I can even sing this well some Oh wait Rainbow way up high Hey Yeah, that's not my that's not my pitch. That's not my tune guys Sounded all right though or the the the tune sounds good John mayor, I know some John mayor John mayor is great By by knowing some John mayor, I mean I know like two songs All right guys We should stop that I might pick it back up later If there's a popular demand, you know if people are chanting More guitar No, I don't think there will be that um, but they're here in case there's a fitting moment so Let's get into Some giveaways now how this is going to work is I'm just going to say You know if you are wanting something put it in the chat I'm only doing you to me in a one-on-one session. So if you want either of those Post that in the chat right now. I'm going to call. Let's say three people I'm just going to Whoever's posting Um, and then I will remember your name. You just send me an email Uh, and we'll do this by honors rules, but if not, I'll always be able to find you and tell so No No, no. All right So if you want either the you to me, uh course So you'll get one course basically whatever course you want On you to me for like data analysis, python, sequel, whatever Or if you want the one-on-one session, you can do that as well. Just post it in the chat And I will start picking. I see a bunch of people posting. I'm just going to ignore it for a second You're going to go back at the top And then start picking some people and then later I will pick more we're going to do 10 total So it'll be seven courses and three people will get a one-on-one session Um, but That's what we're going to do I see I see people doing it. So I'm just going to take a sip while we while I wait To me, this is way more exciting and then doing like the um The raffle giveaway or I don't how was I doing it before like the where you the sweepstakes where you'd enter And then there would be like, you know, this is more exciting to me. Okay. I'm going back up to the top I'm going to choose. Um I'm going to choose just three people and Those three people will get it and then we'll move on from there for the next ones Later on in the stream. Let's see Okay, I'm going back up to the top All right, let me see the very first person The very first person who posted G Wanderlust You to me, please. That was the very first person who posted. I'm going to give that to you So I'm going to give you a you to me course to shoot me an email uh Honor system over here guys. All right, I will know and I can look it up on youtube It's like I I have some of the information on the back end. So I know Um shoot me an email Awesome. So that's one Let's go down Let's see. I'm see what people are saying Up up um, all right. We got a ron hauser Ron hauser is wanting a one-on-one run You got the one-on-one, man. The first one of the night Congrats shoot me an email Uh, let's see Matthew, I think it'd be look honestly, I would give it to you, but it seems a bit I mean, you're my moderator. So it seems a bit Selective I don't know if I can do that I don't know if that's that's fair. I may just have to Give you something else or like a you to me course or something seems a bit biased. All right, we're going to do one more Um, and this one I'm going to do one more you to me because we have a lot more you to me stuff So I'm the next person that I see who asked for a you to me course I'm going to do that one Then later on we still have two more one-on-one sessions to give away. So I'll do that one later. Let's see then very next one Jason Galindo Looking forward to you to me course. That's the next one I saw I promise Jason's shoot me an email. I will know All right, those are ones for right now. Now listen We still have five more courses to give away and two more one-on-one sessions. I promise I will be giving them away. I will follow through. You don't have to worry about me forgetting The wine is not affecting me that much Uh, let's see Awesome awesome awesome And just see I'm just reading people's messages now. We're gonna do that. Let's let's say because it's 8 30 Okay, let's say at 8 45. I'm gonna give all of the other ones away at the same time So we don't have to like wait till like literally the hour At 8 45 in 15 minutes. I'm gonna do all the other all the other ones All right, let's see Okay, now so listen. I said earlier. I would answer some questions. We've done In my opinion basically nothing so far in this in this live stream. We've uh chatted. We've talked Saying about luke which was weird slightly regret that but not really um, we haven't even gotten to my character yet, uh, which is um Which is always fun. We'll get to him later So I think we should I I'll open it up to you guys if you guys want to ask me questions The next 10 or so minutes. I'll like I'll answer some questions. Um, and then We'll do the rest of the giveaway and then we'll just hang out and they'll be great Uh, so let's see Let's see. Let's see. Give us more wine, please If the people are asking, I mean, who am I to deny? Um Chetara said we've done a ton. Don't be so hard on yourself, alex I mean, look, we're just hanging. We're just chilling. There's no agenda. There's nothing This is all for fun. I I'm just enjoying my time with you guys Let's see Can we have a glass of wine during the one-on-one I don't Especially if you're a woman, I don't think that's gonna fly with the old wife, uh, the old wife Wifey over here. Don't think that's gonna happen But I don't think the person I gave the one-on-one to was a girl. So I think we're okay Let's see Okay, so people are asking questions now. Let me let me actually, uh, let me see Do you have any experience previous experience in setting limits and not working after hours? That's a good question Mary Angel Reyes, that's a good question Uh, I've only had one job that kind There was One part of the year where I'd have to work like extra or like over weekends because it was a time sensitive thing Other than that, my jobs have not been too demanding where I have to like work overtime or like after hours I more do that I do my schedule is very different now because I've been working remote for almost Almost two and a half years now. It's almost three years Um My schedule now I work like whenever I want I mostly work in the mornings and then I work at night. So It's like after hours, but that's because I want it that way Because I want to spend more time with my family during the day when they're awake. So, um, no, I haven't had to set a lot of limits There haven't been a lot of times where they've really pushed me or I've Had to really set boundaries. Um, I set boundaries on other things like workload and stuff like that But not not for that specifically Uh canter on said what do you plan on next? Well in terms of the channel, I have just a million ideas I mean, I I legitimately do Um, but I have some things in the some things in the works Um, some bigger ideas that I'm trying to do as well as the python series, which I don't know if you this is like a little alex alex the annals lore Um, but when I was first starting my channel, I actually was going to make it python tutorials only It was going to be called. I think like python talks or python Something it was python something. I think it was python talks. I was going to name it that because Because I love python so much. It was like the first programming language that I was like obsessed with and um, now I'm getting to like finally do it And I'm like crazy excited. I have I think like over 40 videos I already have a lot of them recorded. I have to like edit them, but I have like 20 some videos already recorded And then I have like another 20 or 30 planned where I have like already written out and scripted I mean, I'm super excited about this series. So that's like what's really next for the channel But then I have a lot of other good stuff collaborations that kind of stuff coming up That's kind of what's going on for the channel. That's what's next my time zone is eastern So it's 8 30 p.m at night right now Can you do a video about your setup? You know, I actually am thinking about doing a video about how to um Start like a youtube channel, but the the for other people for like data people The reason being is like sharing your progress and sharing your story and kind of maybe even um using it as like a way to um Make yourself unique in like a job environment Because that's something that I've noticed with myself is People now, you know, I I'm more recognizable So people go into my youtube channel and are like, whoa, your youtube channel is awesome Well, you guys could do very similar things with that And like create your own youtube channel and just post videos or tutorials or whatever you want or just about your story And people can learn more about you see your personality Which I think is really really neat. I'm really close to the screen. Let me back up a little bit I didn't know I was this close the whole time I apologize, um, but yeah so I think I will share my setup and like share tips on how to like do it as well Because the setup I have now is took years to set up or like accumulate But you can get started with very simple stuff. Um, and so I might I might make a video on that What do you love most about working with data? I like I like like finding The patterns and like the little intricacies and the domain knowledge side of things like I work in health care and um You know, I worked in hematology oncology, which is a very specialized health care area to work in with data Very like a lot of really smart people who like know this stuff way better than I did And so when I would like look at the data and dig into it like find these these trends and patterns and stuff I just found it absolutely fascinating and the people that I got to work with were like Just really passionate about like health care and and knowing like can't the this oncology or this cancer cancer data super super interesting When is the python course the first python course? Uh, cyan the very first python course Was dropped today. It was just installing the id that was not even id to notebook Installing Jupiter notebooks. That's all it is the next ones are all like the basics Then I have projects with it. I have more advanced stuff. I'm gonna be doing I have a whole series It's gonna be on pandas, which is my favorite. So that's I've already recorded It's like eight videos and it has a project at the end. I'm a huge project person if you didn't know Um, so I'm super excited about that, but it's it's starting this week But it's gonna last a long time and then I'm gonna do like web scraping videos Um, show you how automate all these things use different IDs. It's gonna be like I'm I'm obsessed with that. I mean, it's amazing Um Let's see. Let's see Let's see I'm reading some, um Do you have courses on linkedin learning? I don't I've never really done linkedin learning Um, they've tried to get me to make some courses for them They wanted me to do a tableau course and a sequel course and I just don't I don't have the time So I had to say no, but it would have been really cool to have my own course on linkedin learning I just um, it's not really my platform. That's not that's something I've really invested a lot of time in or or done myself Um, let's see What are your companies? What are your thoughts about companies like data bricks data iku and data robot? Um, I'm familiar with all of them. I think they're all really great in their own way Data iku is a really, um, I think it's an alphabet company, isn't it or they get absorbed by alphabet or google Um, all these companies are great. I think they all have their own unique value propositions I don't want to go into the intricacies of all of them right now in this moment, of course, but I think they're great companies. I've used data bricks for years. So Yeah, they all have their own unique purpose. Um, if you nobody if you if you guys don't know what those are I think you should go look them up because they're really um up and come Well, some are up and coming. Some are already big in the data world. They're pretty pretty unique Uh, let's see Thank you. Thank you. Thank you How do I approach about making a project even after getting a data set my mind is blank? So Ashutosh sony So ashutosh sony, how do you how do you approach a project? So how here's how I approach a project and I It's different because I've been doing this for a long time But I remember the mindset when I was in when I was like doing my first projects And trying to like learn and create projects from scratch My recommendation to you Is one Follow somebody who's already done it before and I this is a quick plug for my own tutorial or project series Do it with somebody see how they think see what they're what they're looking at what How they're looking at the data what columns they're they're like, oh, we don't need that We wouldn't use that, you know time series data versus numeric data versus, um, you know categorical data How do they think about those things? Take those same concepts and apply it to your data set You know, is it is it a time series? Type of analysis that you're going to be doing or is it more categorical? These things completely change how you look at data and it really only comes with experience And if you don't have experience you need to look at somebody who's already done it So I that's why I really recommend my series is just it's just because those videos they really I didn't have those when I was starting out So I that's why I made them for you so that you can kind of see what's happening in somebody's mind when they're looking at Data and how they're like writing out their code and doing that So just learn from somebody else and then apply that to your own data set because I don't know what data set you have I'm just It's a guess um Aaron Layton said power bi or tableau Either is great. I like tableau because I When you're first learning, I think tableau is really great because you can use tableau public and make it like a portfolio online for free Really great, but I also like power bi my team and am I in my on my team? We use power bi so I like power bi no problem with it. It's just not as Easy when you're when you don't have like the license and stuff. That's my opinion I let's see this next one's good. Bam. Bam I am bam. Love it Alex. What was the biggest challenge moving into management? Are you still involved in doing your data analysis or is it just reviewing other people's work? um Management has been really interesting. Um, not everything I expected or You know was 100 hoping for Um, but I mean I cannot go I have no room to complain. It's a it's a great gig the company I work in the people I work with are all really great I have Because I've been in this role for over a year now I have found that I like to be more hands-on I like to be more of an individual contributor, which is not great for Manager in my type of position. So I do a lot of Admin, I'm like kind of like a project manager. I manage all the stories and the projects and all that stuff Um, I do a lot more high level things So, you know, we're looking at like data lakes or or these aggregation systems And I have to like weigh in on these and do research on them all things. I like but you know, I miss being hands-on Um, so that so the chain that was the biggest change is I'm more like I'm more like a project manager with um And a hiring manager because I hire a you know, we work with a lot of contractors and all my team and stuff um, so Yeah, I mean I like it. I give it a seven out of ten But in my previous job, I was very happy. I just this move was much a big jump And I made a lot more money. So You know, I I don't regret it. I just miss I miss being more hands-on Um, let's see Will you do anything with r? Um, if I'm being honest at this moment I don't think I'm going to be doing anything with r right now Maybe in the future if I really bone up on r and get better at it. I am good at it. I've used r in my work I think I'm good. I just I don't know the concepts as well as I do python like python. I really know Or I know Kind of well So if I was going to do r, I'd really have to to bone up on it. Jaffet greetings from the united states. Hey, thanks for watching Um Let's see Let's see. Let's see What surprised you the most about the role of the data analyst I when I was first starting out it surprised me at how much Team work it took I thought it was going to be much more. Um I thought it was going to be much more individual work like in silos. I Some days I wished it was that way, uh, but it's much more interconnected. You're much more dependent on other teams and other people That really shocked me. That was a big shock. Um, let's see Let's see who I skipped a bunch. Sorry Um boom All right, we got just a few minutes I'm gonna be doing in just a few minutes I'm gonna be doing the final giveaway, which is five more utomy courses and two more one-on-ones And then in the last like 10 20 minutes, I'll just we're gonna hang out answer some questions. Just chat I've been drinking wine this whole time. I've been feeling great It's a good night. This is really good stuff and I like it. I like this wine so much because It doesn't taste like wine He's like sweet juice Which is like what I need. I'm not a wine drinker Uh, let's see Let's see. Where do you get data sets for projects? I use either google data sets Which is not just google link data sets. It's called google data sets or kaggle. I use a lot. I use that a lot or like public like, um Public stuff. I like the government Just depends Michael, thanks for coming go take a nap Mary angel. I'm super glad to hear that um interviews interviews I'm gonna okay. So she said I'm awful at interviews until I saw your series and interviews preparation. Thank you so much I Thanks to that. I have my current job. I didn't even read that congratulations So thank you so much, Alex. So real quick right after the story. I'll tell you I think I told this maybe one or two times before this is like a while ago This would to me this this was my Worst and funniest experience ever. So when I first started out, I don't come from tech I don't come from this world. Um, it was completely new to me And my first job at my very first like real data analyst job I was at a healthcare analytics company if you know my story I started working with recruiters had no idea what they were didn't trust them a lick I I kind of understood what they were for but I didn't really trust them and um That interview that I got I got that job, but I'm going to tell you what happened Basically, I went to I was living in Dallas and I in north Dallas. There was this um This parking like structure like multiple like a parking lot And the guy wanted me to meet me there to walk me into the building and prep me for the the interview And I was like, I was like, babe Talking to my wife. I was like, I was like, babe I was like, this is where I'm going If you do not hear bite from me from within an hour of me parking because I'm gonna text you when I park If you do not hear from me call the police. I was like, I don't know this guy I don't know who he is I was like, I genuinely am like concerned Because I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I was paranoid. I thought I was gonna get like murdered I'm not even joking So I park I go and pay like the parking fee, which is like two dollars And the guy meets me in the parking lot and he's just like this nice guy and we walk inside this is really nice building I'm like, oh my gosh. I was like, this guy seems legit I don't think I'm getting like nobody's taking my organs or anything. I just feel okay They bring me up to like the eighth floor And I walk in there and I meet um my soon-to-be boss because they did offer me the job and all and and everything and um I get into the interview and the guy's like, all right. Tell me about your experience. This is my boss. Um, his name is Tristan Great guy. Um, great boss. He's like my name, you know, tell me tell me about yourself. Tell me what experience you have And I was like, okay. Here's what I have. I was like, I've been doing this this work here um, and in the interview Or before that interview I've been practicing sequel a ton, but I had never used it in my life Um, but just practicing sequel a lot. So I felt really confident Um, and when I got in the interview, he asked me like what I what I use I use a lot of excel a little tableau and a little bit of sequel He asked me if I use it on the job and I said well, we use it at my job But I don't get to use it that much but I've been practicing with a lot So he's like, okay. Well, you know, let's let's do a technical a technical interview I know I never even heard of that that that moment was the first time I had heard of what a technical interview was um He asked me Uh, a very simple question. I got it right. It was like a select statement. Super easy Then he asked me how to do a join and um I got a message he asked me how to do a join um, and I was like I think I said, what is it? I was like is a join where you combine two tables I was like, I honestly can't remember how to do that. I just told them. I was like, I can't remember how to do that But I was like, I was like, but I am really confident. I was like, I've been practicing this stuff I know I can do it. You just I was like, you just give me the opportunity. I promise I will know how to do that by the time I start Um, they brought me in for one more interview. I don't know why which was with the cto of the company This was a very small company They offered me the job But he told me in that interview He's like afterwards when I got hired like a couple months after I was like, do you remember my interview? He's like, yeah, he's like, we just really we we liked your attitude But man, you didn't know what you were talking about. I was like, yeah, I know It was um It was bad. It was a bad My I do think my personality and my domain knowledge and health care really got me that job But the sequel knowledge did not I really failed that technical interview quite poorly. It was really sad Um, all right I already see people A few people in the chat. They already know what's about to happen Let's see Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I see um, I see people sending me their emails for the stuff. They've already won. Thank you Um, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate I see it. I'll get it to you. I'm gonna set it up I already see it so We are now going into the last drawing if you want to call it a drawing of the night And I am almost done with my wine. So I might finish this but All you need to do is put in the chat if you want a Udemy course or if you want the one-on-one session I have two one-on-one sessions So you have less chance of getting that one if you put that one in the chat or you can put both I mean the chat you can put as much many chats as you want Um, or put you to me. So put you to me or one-on-one I'm gonna choose two people to do the one-on-ones and I'm gonna choose five more people for you to me courses You need to email me and I have I can look at your profile and see it and your email I'll know So honor system over here If I choose you just shoot me an email at my alex the analyst yt for youtube at gmail.com You can find it on my home page of my youtube thing if you don't have it. So go ahead. I already see a ton It's it's going crazy. I'm gonna sip this and then I'm gonna start choosing I'm not gonna start at the top this time. I know some people were thinking I was gonna start at the top Let's see CJ wrote maybe another rant about entry-level jobs with five years experience required is in order I definitely agree. I could I can write I could rant on that for a while Okay Salvana vodka that is the first one. I saw for the one-on-one Silvana Congratulations, you have got the second one-on-one and you choose one more one-on-one Um Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Actually, I'm gonna choose the last one-on-one And then I'm gonna do all the you to me ones because I don't I won't be able to remember So Silvana, you just got a one-on-one. Let's do one more one-on-one Let's see. Let's see. Let's see I'm trying I'm there's a a lot of that are like repeating. I'm trying to fill it because there's just a lot in there So give me a second I'm not like hand-selecting. I don't most of these people. I don't know by hand Like I don't recognize which is a good thing. That means new people are joining always a good thing okay last one-on-one Here we go. I'm fine. I'm I'm Trying to get to my spot where I can see people. Okay. Here we go Mark pay as pays Mark pays one-on-one. That's what he wrote He wrote it. I'm calling it out Congratulations. Shoot me an email. We are on to the you to me. Oh, congratulations, by the way I One-on-ones are my favorite thing by the way. I just I love them. I think they are super helpful I wish I had was smart enough to have done that when I was first starting out because um You know, I would have learned a ton. So uh with those I'm just gonna chat. I'm just gonna hang out uh talk about resumes talk about interviews talk about life Really anything you want. Shoot me your resume. Shoot me out. Whatever you want me to review We'll do it. We'll make it happen. We'll schedule something. I am going on vacation. Um in a couple days That's why we're doing the live stream tonight not tomorrow night But I am going on a small vacation To my wife's aunt's house So can't do it this week and I apologize. All right you to me guys. Let's see you to me In the chat we have RV show RV show That's you to me number one. We have four more to give away RV show shoot me an email Um, let's see. Oh, oh, oh my thing's lagging. Give me a second Uh victoria Ayo deji Victoria aio deji You are the next you to me winner We got three left Uh shoot me an email. I'm gonna say that after every time because I just want to remind you and when I when I watch this Video back to confirm who were the winners I'll know Excuse me wine. Oh my goodness Okay, this one. Let's see. Um This one is Moses or mosaice true true jello true. Hello All right I don't I I sorry if I mispronounce that name. I'm trying, uh, but moses. I'm gonna say moses. You are the next winner Erin Layton. She's been really active in the chat and she set her birthdays on friday guys So I have to give one to her Erin shoot me an email. You just won the next you to me course. All right, we got one left This is the last one of the night. Uh, let's see who's let's see who's getting it Let's see. Let's see. Let's see I'm just I I got to scroll down from where I was All right, let's see I'm looking I'm looking I'm looking for you Some I'm looking for somebody who wrote you to me in the Chat There we go. Okay. Now. I'm seeing them roll in. All right very last one Let's do. Oh jeez. It just skipped Oh, I was about to choose you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, here we go. Uh, the name is Bilal Abdel Nassar Bilal Abdel Nassar shoot me an email Um, congratulations. I like this way better than the last when we did like the um The sweepstakes I am much more a fan of this because it's people who are in the chat that I know are like engaged and and they're here And then we can you know do this immediately. I like this much better I'm gonna do this in the future on the next in the on the next one. I want to do more one-on-one sessions I'm just like crazy packed Right now my schedule is like insane. You guys would not believe like My schedule has just been absolutely crazy lately. So, um, hopefully for everyone who got the one-on ones When we schedule those, um, you guys will be a little bit more flexible than I am because like My my schedule is tight. So we'll make it happen though. Um, so shoot me an email Uh, I will watch this back. I'll verify with the emails. I'll verify on youtube Honor system everyone. All right But um, congratulations. Also, thank you to you to me for giving free courses for everybody Because uh, they were gracious enough to do that. Um, awesome. Well, let's go down to the bottom Now we're just hanging out. Uh, that is the giveaway Gave gave away some good stuff. I'm super happy for all of you guys. Um, honestly my mods mathu cj. I wish I could I I might just throw in a an extra you'd be one for you guys later Don't quote me on that but I'll see what I can do for you guys because I always appreciate you guys Coming to all of these and moderating the the chat. I'd really do appreciate it um Oh the email rv the email is alex the analyst yt at gmail.com and you can find it on my home page Or maybe not my home page. Um, let me see. Let me see what my home page looks like. Um, let me see real quick Maybe it's not here Oh Go to my if you go to my linkedin, but it's alex the analyst yt at gmail.com if you go to my linkedin It's on my home page Um, but I see a bunch of people already emailing me because you guys are all here This is this is such a much better format than last time. We're doing this next time. Um But awesome Yeah, it has yeah, exactly moises moises moises. I don't know how to pronounce it. I apologize But you're correct. It is in the about section in on my youtube channel Or am I about section on my youtube channel? Yes. Bilal same thing same thing. Um Awesome I listen if you guys didn't win I want you to truly know I really appreciate you I I do have a like I I if I could give one to every single one in here I would although you to me would probably just drop me as a You know, like a partner or a sponsor or whatever and they would never talk to me again Because I don't think that's a good business model to give away like 200 or Many people are in here. I don't think it's a good business model So I would though and I super super super appreciate you guys I love doing giveaways. Um, just to give something back to you guys because you guys give me so much Um, you know, I've been extremely blessed And this is just a small way I can give back very small very very small. And so I really really really appreciate you guys Um, uh-oh CJ is something happening. Oh boy He said the lag is real. I hope it's not I hope it's not CJ if this if this if nobody else is noticing us Oh boy This was a this was a fine wine I think it's 2022 a vintage Anyways, um, yeah, I'm drinking like this white. I don't do wine guys Like I really don't um I really don't do wine a lot. So this is like juice for adults is really what this is This isn't even like really wine Um, yeah, congrats to all the winners. I'm just reading the chat and just hanging out just seeing what you guys are all Moises true heo Moises moises. Okay, cool Hey, I know how to pronounce your name. No. All right. Well, apparently some people are lagging and I'm not Some people know about it and I don't I think somebody yeah, somebody's trolling me CJ is trolling me right now. I'm not even joking um All right, we got just a few minutes. Um, but let's hang out for just a few minutes longer Just to spend more time with one another Um quality time is truly my love language. My wife will tell you quality time and uh, I'm a big hugger So I like, uh physical touch That is my that is what I love and so this quality time that we're getting to spend together, although not not touching Probably for the best That'd be weird This quality time means a lot to me and I do appreciate it and and getting to talk to everybody I recognize like I I have a good memory for For names in chat for whatever reason like not names in real life You could tell me your name in real life like a hundred times, but I recognize like comments Like people will put will comment on a lot of my videos because they're like binging some videos and I will I'll be like Oh, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. And then they'll message me on linkedin. I'm like, oh, I recognize you from Uh, your youtube comments and they're like, yeah, that's me So I recognize like I really do recognize um a lot of people in here Like there's a ton of people that I have been Recognizing that are frequenters of the channel. Um, and I'd love seeing that. It's awesome What brand is my wine? It's a stella rosa Let me see if you can see that It is from publics The great the great Deliverer of wines publics. Let me see if you guys can see that Oh, it didn't it didn't focus on the video. I apologize. It's just a stella rosa. It's a product of italy Um, it's just an alcoholic juice basically and it's great. I like it. I like it a lot Mary angel the discord link is on my youtube channel. It's just a place for you guys to Um go and talk with other people. I sometimes get in there, but it's mostly for like the community For you guys to get in there ask questions for other community members. It's like, uh, just a forum for everyone um Yeah Ron Ron wrote I can't wait to celebrate 500 000 subs next week. Uh, it won't be next week Although it's been it's been quite a wild ride because I think we did 250 like three months ago um So if i'm doing, you know 50 every three months That's pretty insane That's pretty insane like we legitimately could be at 500 within you know early late middle next year My math is not my math is not the best. I've I've had some wine Um, but I'm super excited. I'm super super excited You got to put your hand behind the bottle like a true beauty vlogger Shatara You tell me now If you told me that like two minutes ago, I would have done it Um Nicholas said just popping in before class to say congrats. Love your content It's giving me confidence as a new data analyst student Hey get to class man learn study Super happy that the channel's been helpful, but um, you know focus on those studies You know, there's a there's a great career ahead of you You're gonna make it happen. I I know you can Shelton Jean Baptiste Said with your help. I got my first annual job before I graduate in december. Thank you. Hey, congrats a job before you graduate Good night That's that's amazing. That's fantastic. I'm super super happy to hear that Good night alex lilac said good night alex from the caribbean Good night from the united states Have a good one. Have a good one Let's see mark said fyi WGU, I think that's like western west governors university or something like that West georgia university. I've heard of that. Um, but it's fully online. They have a data analyst program Yeah, and it's it's like more much more affordable than other ones I've seen I've seen that on people's resumes even um, so people have definitely done that Okay, mr. Number six said you got a bit of color in your face um Have you not been data analyzing indoors as much as the wine's taken effect already? Okay If i'm being completely honest in I use obs to stream to my videos If I I add a little bit of color to everything the whole everything Because if I don't I look very pale And washed out and like I look almost gray. It's like it's like it's sad Um, apparently that's just how I am in real life But it's really really sad and so I add a little bit of color a little touch of something. Um Just to kind of spruce it up a little bit if I'm just being transparent. That's what I do Publix has great stubs. Troy, you weren't here earlier, but we were calling it pub subs. We were going off about Publix Their bakery section everything Publix is great Ron said my math is not the best Alexi analyst. Yeah, you quote me and you can quote me People have told me that's a funny story because people will um People have written me on linkedin actually on many occasions saying that they told their interviewer About my channel and either the interviewer knew who I was or didn't but thought it was really interesting and so they would message me and be like I was in an interview at What was this? It was it was some like healthcare company. It wasn't mine It was like a techie healthcare company And the person was asking them like an interview question or they were chatting or something and they mentioned my name And the and the and she said that the interviewer knew who I was and thought that was really funny And she's like we bonded over that and I was like that's pretty wild I was like that's pretty wild. I don't I don't consider myself That big because there's much much much bigger Channels in the data space I don't consider myself that big but it was I I think that was a unique Situation and I just thought that was super funny. I don't think that's happened many times Let's see I did mention you as my learning resource Marcello That's what i'm talking about you just dropped my name You guys have my full permission. You can say you got anybody in this chat All 144 of you guys I am not joking when I say this if you Mention me in a chat and just say that we're friends or Or you know, you learned from me. I will back you up if they Ask me and like send me a message on like linkedin. Do you know this person? You shoot me a message beforehand. So I meant to know but I will back you up I am not even joking. I will lie to some recruiters Or hiring managers. I'm just trying to get you a job. That is my number one My my morality Out the window you just tell them, you know me That'll help. I don't know if that'll help that might be a that might not help Um, all right, let's see Bilal Bilal my email is alex the analyst yt at gmail.com Up up up and you can find it on my linkedin as well or in my about section on my youtube channel All right, let me see. Don't have to tell me twice. Thanks for the support I'm not even joking guys. I am not joking I I I will absolutely alex w alex Brothers, I mean it's alex and alex over here. It's us against the world Shoot me a message on linkedin if they if they you don't have my phone number If they email me shoot me a message on linkedin. I'll know I will Let's see. I'm just gonna answer a few more questions. Then we're gonna head out. It's already after nine We're just chilling now. I know there's still people here, but um, you know I got a family who's sleeping and I got actually I got some work. I gotta do Um, let's see. Am I hiring troi? I am not hiring at the moment. We have two analysts and uh, two developers um that Are full-time positions not not not hiring at the moment. We also have contractors but um The contracting we do mostly out of like lithuania Um, and I I love my lithuania, uh, all my employees are contractors from lithuania. They're great really really good um Jason said hey alex if we are teaching ourselves sequel at what point have we learned enough to To list on a resume on linkedin. I think if you know up till joins like it's just select from where um, if you know that maybe group by and join like if you know those things like those if you If you've done it enough to feel like you like understand it. I put it on your resume start applying I did that. I didn't know like I It sounds silly But i'm telling you you need to start applying and putting putting things on your resume before you actually feel Comfortable putting it on your resume pushes you farther. It pushed me farther because I was putting python on my resume before I Is the python I know now is like genuinely pretty solid Like I can do some really good stuff with python But when I was putting it on my resume at the beginning I knew like the basics But I pushed me to like really it really pushed me to Be like, okay, if I have this on my resume I need to know it like I need to know it better And I I did more tutorials and I did more courses and I just learned it better And then when you get into interviews, they're like, oh, you know python What have you done they'll ask you and you'll be like, oh, I I haven't done that before and you can go look that up And learn it and go back to them and say, hey, I know this. You know, this is great So, you know, it just I I'm a I'm a fan of doing it more earlier earlier than you feel comfortable Just to really put yourself out there and start like Declaring it. It's like it's like, um name it and claim that kind of thing Let's see. Um, let's see. Let's see the favorite vacation spot I like the mountains. I'm a mountain guy My my skin doesn't do well at the beach, uh, but my wife is obsessed with the beach and we live close to the beach So it's kind of unfortunate um Let's see But yeah, I live near Charleston, South Carolina, which is like right near the beach. Um, and it's it's very beautiful. Very, very pretty Ron said tell us about your kids. I have four kids and could talk Could talk about each one all day minor seven old and younger. I have three kids 10 three and two all the loves of my life They are excellent kids like just You know, none of them have None of them are terrors. None of them are bullies at school. They're all kind and nice and sweet and hardworking and You know, they're just typical great kids super super super fortunate to have them in my life, uh, just Just the best I could talk I could talk about them all day, but um I shouldn't But they're they're fantastic Let's see up up bum Mason said I know your wife is very proud of your career trajectory I remember you stating in an earlier video that your motivation for getting into this field was to impress her I am sure she is very proud She is very proud. Um, and and she tells me that and um, yeah When I was first getting into this it wasn't it wasn't as much to impress her because at that point We were already married. She married me when I was making I think it was $10 an hour And we were broke. I mean we were We were broke. Um And I'm not like broke broke broke, but we were like broke We didn't have any savings. We had no money. We were living paycheck to paycheck basically. Um And I did it because I wanted better for my family. We got married. I was like, I'm a provider now I need to provide but I'm like right out of college And I was like I need to provide and so I started looking into the other fields and like data analytics just found me um, but Yeah Yeah, definitely, um Definitely I my career has been really interesting. Um, just because I feel like I've gotten extremely lucky at different points But then I also look at it. I'm like, I have to give myself a little credit Like I definitely have some a part to play but like luck has definitely paid played a part for sure Like even certain jobs. I'm like, I shouldn't have I don't know if I should have gotten that job Like that first job I was telling you guys about earlier where I just They liked my personality and my background and domain knowledge, but my my I failed my technical interview and they still hired me Like that was luck That for sure was so I I've been lucky throughout my career Um, but I've also been extremely I I have a huge I have a huge drive, but I also I I look Farther than what I think I'm I'm capable of and I try to shoot for it So yeah, just I don't know Just something. Yeah, Matthew Greenville is great. Um, I We plan on going up to Greenville or in that area in the mountains area near the near the footlands or what is that? What's that called? Highlands of South Carolina. We plan on going there somewhere. Um, sometime maybe in like this spring or something Should be really really nice But I love the mountains Let's see Bum bum Yeah, yeah, l l may l mago the um the paycheck the paycheck pain is real Um, I I fortunately, you know, you guys know my my salary Um, kind of progression, but it's it has been Overwhelmingly over it's been overwhelmingly Humbling because you know, I don't come my family my family was never rich growing up I know we didn't have money. We didn't go on Trips or big well, you know besides like road trips places like it just don't come from money And so having the salary I have now as well as like my youtube channel and that kind of stuff is More than I could ever ever ever have asked for if if my career stops here I would Be sad because I want to keep going but I would also be extremely just humble because Good night. I don't feel like I deserve how much I make and and you know I do I like understand that mindset of living paycheck paycheck to paycheck is tough It's very tough, but there is a better. I mean it happens like you just Got to keep going you got to keep pushing keep reaching and keep trying to better your life um for sure Let's see Um, I'm going to talk about my salaries. This will be one of the last things we talk about and then we'll end the stream um Because uh, who was it center xerox seven wanted to know But I started out right out of college. I was making essentially five dollars an hour But I was making ten dollars an hour But I don't they only scheduled me for 20 hours of work per week or yes per week So if I was working a full 40 hours, it would have been five dollars. It was at this rec This behavioral health hospital Doing like outpatient or inpatient now is inpatient care Then I worked on a nonprofit. I was making 36 000 which was a crazy big step up for me 30 that was one of the bigger like percentage wise jumps From like was from 20 to 36 000 Or 10 dollars and I was like more like fives like It was a big jump 36 000. I was like, oh boy We are in the big leagues. I was like 36 000. This is insane I was like, who's who's paying me this kind of cash because that to me like what I used to live in like north carolina 36 000 was like A pretty decent salary at least when I was growing up. I was like 36 of that. So that's how much I made Then at that nonprofit I started to get to know everybody and there was an opening for a data collection specialist and analyst position I was making they hired me on I was making 47 000 and that was salaried Huge, I mean again, that was right when me and my wife. I got married. It's like 47 000 dollars And she was making way more than I was because she was farther along in her career smarter More inclined or like that kind of stuff. So she was just making like almost double. I was making um at least I think so I can't remember exactly how much she was making But after that after 47 000 I got that job I was talking about earlier where I bombed the interview but they still hired me or I bombed the technical portion of the interview They still hired me. Let me take my last sip Hey, that was perfect timing. Um I was making 63 000 with No bonus, but they did give me a bonus of 500 That Year because they did they had a good year. They wanted to retain me. So they gave me 500 cash When I'm telling you I went I I didn't even understand the concept of a bonus Because when they handed me the check for 500 dollars, I said I Won it wasn't on my my salary. So I was like, I was like, do I have to like report this or how does this work? And there's like Don't tell the IRS. In fact, I maybe shouldn't even say shouldn't even say it But he said don't put it on your taxes. He's just a gift. It's just a gift not from the company just for me That's what he told me Guys, I don't know if I think I'm just commit. I'm admitting like fraud or something. I don't even know I hope no one important is watching this All that to say I cashed her for 500 bucks. I was like, babe, I didn't I don't think we paid any taxes on that blew my mind But he's just said it was from a friend All right guys, um Anyways, um, so I got a 500 bonus. So I made 63 500 My next step up was my next job at the current company. I'm still with this was over three years ago I so I was a data analyst. I was my title at this at this I'm just looking at the check because I thought that was I I don't I probably should just share that Oh boy Marcello, I'm liking the I'm liking the alex The alex faces those crack me up. I've seen those in a few chats in the few comments on the thing In the comments now and I love them. I think they're so funny Okay, Matthew You're uh, you're banned from the uh from the youtube channel after Um After that 63 000 I got I took us I got an offer and this was a really trying time I'm gonna try to keep this short. I don't want my want my wife to Stay up too late. This is a really trying time because my wife Was not working at this time. It was just my salary making 63 000 She got a job offer up in oklahoma for like a lot of money like at least in oklahoma I was like 85 or something and I was gonna we were gonna move there and I was gonna make nothing I wasn't gonna have a job but then I got offered a position Oh, maybe no, maybe it was that that job, but I was offered a position And I was like well either I take this And you try to find a job here. We take that and move up there and I try to find a job We ended up taking my position So instead of a data analyst, I went down to a junior data analyst in title But the salary was 76 000, but I wasn't full time I was a contract to hire Which I had never done before and was really in my opinion risky Because I never done it. I didn't know I was gonna get hired on full time So I busted my butt I mean I worked so hard to make myself known to make myself indispensable To really get to know everybody on a personal level to like get that job and become full time After about six months they hired me at no Maybe it's like eight months. They hired me on full time And they gave me two pay jumps above that because that's where they said my skill level was at To a data analyst two and I was making 90 1000 is a 91 or 93 um So she was it was like low 90s. I believe and That was That was a huge confidence booster That was like I really needed that because I wasn't sure I was like that kind of that imposter syndrome still like two Three years ago. I still had some imposter syndrome Um, but it was a huge boost of confidence. I did really well there. I stayed there for another like a year or two And then I got the job. I'm in now Um, right now I'm making about 125. Oh and before with the 91. I was making a bonus of 10% So it was about a hundred thousand like right on the dot a hundred thousand after a total compensation With my full time salary with the bonus that bonus was almost like nine thousand dollars Which was again just insane Money that's I've never Ever in my life thought I'd make that much I just I ever every time I make more money. I think the same thing. I'm like, I'm like, I don't know how this is happening But I'm really appreciative Now I'm in the job. I'm in now My total compensation Is 125 sorry, there's a bunch of dogs barking Um, but my bonus is variable So because I'm a manager, I'm in a different bracket a different, um Bracket so if our company does well, I can make upwards of like a 20 bonus Um, if our company does bad, I lose money I could get maybe a six percent bonus or a five percent bonus But historically our company does very well. We're in pharmaceuticals So I could potentially, you know Make out like a bandit and go to like almost like 150 or 145 depending on how big of a bonus I get Which again, it just sounds absurd. It seems I feel like I when I'm talking about it. I feel like a different person I do not feel like I'm a person who makes that much money If that makes sense It feels like I'm talking about somebody else like I'm like an accountant talking about somebody else's money It does not feel like I make that much Um It feels a bit surreal If I'm being honest, I don't know. I need to throw that in there It's just my thoughts or what I'm thinking but you know, I feel very Very extremely blessed I cannot I cannot express that enough. It just feels a bit surreal like it's just very very different Um, so with all that being said, um I see a bunch of other questions. I All right Like one sentence answers Congrats 125,000 k is amazing thought about going for another masters. No, I'm not going to go back for a masters I've realized I don't need one. So I'm not going to go back and go in um Someone said manifesting this hero hero x make it happen. I'm a huge believer in like Shooting for the stars like go big or go home. Like what do you have to lose? I really just some of my thoughts The other thing was saying, um Oh, oh, I just lost it By the time you were making 90,000 what skills did you have? I had sequel excel python and Tableau slash power bi all the core skills. I had them all I wasn't great at all of them But I had them all and I was only really good at sequel like sequel has been my bread and butter sequel has been like my money maker at every stage of that sequel has been the most important skill Except for this management position So I don't have a masters I only have a bachelor's degree in recreational therapy. I that's all I have to say No more questions. I can't I can't answer any more questions I gotta get my my wife's gotta go to sleep and I gotta go to work. I gotta go do some work after this um, so my signing off You guys it has been 300,000 subscribers is is It's amazing. Like I'm genuinely So appreciative of all of you. This is just a small like in the challenge a small representation of the community as a whole but You guys are amazing. I love hanging out with you guys and chatting with you guys and doing giveaways and stuff like that like it's It feels surreal. I feel like a different person sometimes like I am who I am like at my core And then I also do these other things and I'm like sometimes it doesn't feel like me It feels a bit surreal, but it's awesome and it's amazing and I'm I'm so appreciative of it So Thank you guys for sticking around for supporting the channel for watching the videos for liking my content I don't know. It's just it's it's insane It really is insane And I've just I've come to get to know so many of you guys like on a personal level through emails or linkedin Or one-on-ones or you know twitter or just all these different places like I genuinely feel like I know hundreds of you guys thousands even probably And I just you know, I feel like we're all in this together Like we're all kind of growing together as analysts and as The person creating some content like I we're all we're all doing this together And I couldn't do without you. I really really could not and so this is you know Although it's just me drinking some wine and doing a small giveaway like, you know It I hope you know how much I appreciate you like I really really do um With that being said, I am going to get out of here because My wife needs to sleep because our room is like right here. This is like my office nook Uh, then my there are bed is over there and I got some work. I gotta do so um Thank you guys. I it's all I gotta say so um I see people um I see people in the chat Writing I can't read them all but I'm going to read through all of these You guys are amazing. Um these I don't know it makes me tear up a little bit just because um You know I just feel a bit surreal. It's a bit surreal that we're here. Um And so, you know And I you know, I feel like I'm I feel like I'm making an impact Um, so all that's to say you guys are making me tear up. It's the wine It's it's not you guys. It's the wine Um, all right guys, I I'm actually signing off this time. Um, thank you guys. Have a good night Get some rest or if you're going to class study and focus Um, I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye