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Palantir’s $10B Army contract = massive data center hiring wave that nobody’s talking about.
Military AI can’t run on public cloud.
Government needs:
• Air-gapped data centers
• SCIF facilities• Cleared infrastructure teams
Data center ops: $80K-120K
Network engineers: $100K-150K
Cloud architects: $130K-200K+
Essential certs:
✅ Security+ (clearance req)
✅ CCNA (networking)
✅ VMware vSphere (virtualization)
Companies hiring: Iron Mountain Gov, Booz Allen, CACI, GDИТ, SAIC
Get certified and target defense infrastructure while everyone else fights for Big Tech scraps.
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The worst coworkers are the ones who can’t accept there’s nothing to do at work. Its ok bro, just watch youtube or learn a new skill on your own time.
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Tech is interesting because you can grow your salary significantly over 2-4 years by simply getting a new job. Between 2018-2021 I went from 60k to 180k.
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This past weekend my brother and I met a guy who works for the state of MD. He told me that he can connect people in MD who are looking for jobs with free training programs for HVAC, welding and other trades. They can also help get criminal records expunged. Please retweet.
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People in Baltimore who graduated after 2016 can really go to community college for free and a lot of them don’t take advantage. They can literally get a free education in cyber security from one of the best programs at CCBC and nobody talks about it.
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If barbers started treated men the way hair stylist treat yah I swear the amount of barbershop fight videos on the internet would skyrocket overnight. Glad to see someone takin legal action.
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I think living in DC made me realize that educated bougie women are my type. They’re expensive though.
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Your new job asking you to update your LinkedIn with your new position is like your new partner asking you to post them on your ig and twitter 😂.
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Damn, let me go buy my mother some bags and jewelry and let her know I appreciate her because wtf did I just watch.
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I've reached a monthly income over 25k and thats all through tech so don't sleep on 9-5s. Now I just need to figure out how to create more cash flow through investments.
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Move to DC, Atl or Dallas and you’ll meet plenty of Ambitious black people. Hell even Charlotte got em.
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I told my former non black coworkers that I need to take a cert exam and they immediately sent me dumps and told me to cram lol. They didn’t try to gate keep at all , thats interesting.
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A guy I worked with on a 3 month project who’s known in the Cloud/Devops industry by Customers and Vendors . He background is crazy.
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My new job gives employees access to an unlimited amount of udemy courses. This is going to be my new addiction.
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I just met a guy who's a full stack engineer who builds everything from the ground up. He knows everything from writing machine code to building applications. He bills at $500/hr and on his last engagement he also got $2000 a week for expenses. Insane.
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If you can learn lucrative tech skills , semi master them and build a pipeline of 1099 contract gigs then you can make at least 18k a month. I know people doing 26k/month, Its a balance of technical training and business development.
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One of the things that blew my mind as I became more financially literate was realizing that if someone had $5 million, they could generate significant passive income through compound interest and dividends. They could even move to a cheaper country and never work again.
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One of my Cyber Security Mentors told me Cribl is going to be the new Splunk and you can start learning for free on their website.
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Bout to get paid $3500 to watch YouTube videos for training and then get paid 90/hr to work on the project for something I just learned on YouTube. The DevOps field is insane.
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DC is a such an interesting place because you can go to a lounge and randomly meet someone who owns a IT company thats been awarded Gov contracts.
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Taking that training was worth it.
I took a training 3 week training on Redhat Openshift Virtualization and got immediately hit up for a 4 month project. Training was easy and now the opportunities are flowing in already.
When new tech is created you can take advantage if you move quick.
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My homie owns a software consulting company making 500k a year and last year he bought his girl a bbl and a Mercedes. She left him for another dude and he hasn’t been the same since, idk how to help him 😂.
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Learning Kubernetes got me into Senior Level roles overnight. The second I added it to my resume I was overwhelmed with opportunities.
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Here is a thread of my favorite free resources to learn Linux, cloud (AWS) and other Devops tools that have helped me a lot .
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A good amount of our grandparents would be closer if they bought index funds instead of paying tithes but that convo pisses my family off so I don’t bring it up anymore lol.
Nearly 22 million 🇺🇸 Americans are millionaires, roughly one in 15 people, according to UBS global wealth report.
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I think he said he was 50k a week. I wouldn't have gone back to rappin either. I'd setup a nice ass condo in Spain and stream from there.
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“The tech field is over saturated “ bro I just an interview the other day. They asked me basic questions like “explain what a container is” and told me I was the first candidate out of 8 to get the answer right 😂. Idk about saturated but aight.
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Those Oracle certs are gonna come in handy for those that take advantage.
BREAKING: Oracle and OpenAI have signed a deal worth $300B, the largest cloud computing contract in history as per the Wall Street Journal.
Looks like we found the customer responsible for Oracle’s 350% increase in remaining performance obligations.
My goodness.
$ORCL
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Why do people who want to get into cyber security, software engineering and other tech fields refuse to go back to school? Getting a computer science degree or cyber security degree is damn near a career start guarantee. Shid even community college will help.
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no lie I asked a woman to go to a coffee shop with me and she said "sorry, I don't entertain low investment dates". Guess she was trying to narrow down her sales funnel 😂.
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Scrum Master = Adult babysitter who makes sure the project gets done and engineers play well together. If you’re a people person and want to lead standup meetings every single day then this is the job for you.
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Got my boy a sweet ass gig where he’ll be getting $150 an hour to teach a basic cyber security class. We all eat.
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My homeboy is a software engineer and lives in Miami. He basically puts on a front that he’s in the music/entertainment industry and tricks clout chasing birds into thinking he got some motion through being a promoter. Genius blueprint 😂.
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The more I get paid from stock dividends and my high yield savings account the more I realize how easy it is for the rich to get richer. Imagine if you had millions in index funds. You could get paid in dividends and not ever work again, it's crazy.
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The more I look into the wealthy the more I see a pattern. Start a career in a field thats historically in demand (medicine, law, engineering) for a few years, start your own business/practice, invest the money into appreciating/cash flowing assets. Shit is simple really.
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Government contractor income hack: Get niche IT certs that federal contracts require (CISSP, CISM, etc.). MSPs will pay you retainer fees just to keep you on payroll so they can bid on gov contracts. I know guys earning $2-5K/month from 3-4 vendors doing basically nothing.
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I helped this girl thatcI'm dating get a 6 figure job as a Data Scientist. My birthday is coming soon now we see if I'm finally getting that Rolex. Fingers crossed boys.
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If you work in tech, this is how much you can charge per hour if you work as a 1099 consultant. This is an example of what federal contractors charge the government, they take out how much they want to keep and give you the difference as an hourly rate .
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This reminds me of when my grandfather taught me how to read a map when I was kid. At the same time he was blowing hella newport smoke in my face and yelling at me for not paying attention. good times.
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I told all my cousins 5-7 years ago to take advantage of the Baltimore community college cyber security program and only one listened.
Now he is killing it.
Why are the rest so hardheaded?
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Baltimore city community colleges offer free tuition and has a Cyber Security program, I would take advantage of that if I wanted to get into tech and was 18 again.
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This is interesting to watch, you’re seeing first hand how many companies have no Disaster Recovery plans put in place. This is just proof that the DevOps/SRE market needs good engineers.
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Working multiple contracts and doing 20k+ months showed me there was a completely different side to money I knew nothing about.
Then you find out about people doing that much but live in cheaper countries.
They usually have a niche technical skill thats needed everywhere.
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I’d focus on linux, networking , AWS and kubernetes. I’ve worked with guys that have 30+ years experience and had to teach them how kubernetes works. They literally have no idea. I’ve had to hold training classes with a room full of men old enough to be my father asking me questions.
If you were to start your IT career, where will you start. I’m trying to transition from Healthcare .
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I regret not joining the Air Force after high school. I would have earned cybersecurity, Red Hat, and Cisco certifications afterward, moved to DC for a government contract job, bought a house, rented out rooms, and built from there.
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I took a training 3 week training on Redhat Openshift Virtualization and got immediately hit up for a 4 month project. Training was easy and now the opportunities are flowing in already.
When new tech is created you can take advantage if you move quick.
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Rappers influence on our culture is weird. It’s like we put them before black people who work in law, finance , STEM and Real Estate. Our value on media and entertainment is too high.
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Working at the big 4 can teach you how to run a consulting business. You’re supposed to take that info and go start something else or get another job where you’ll look like a rock star.
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The tech industry is interesting because it can be vertically scaled. You can work a normal job, teach on the side, create educational courses, resell software, subcontract government contracting and private contracting), and even make money through royalties from books.
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If I was 18 again again I would’ve joined the navy or Air Force and preferably would have chosen a job that required me to get a clearance. Then I would’ve just used the GI bill to get a degree in computer science or cyber security and had been set for life.
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We had a Splunk consultant log on today to take a look at our system. Apparently, some data wasn't getting aggregated correctly. He was here for 6 hours and charged $2350/hr. He'll be here for the rest of the week and next week. Crazy!
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“Niches get riches” is why I love Openshift. 8 recruiters reach out to me last week for Openshift and Satellite 6 opportunities.
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Found a free video series on learning the basics of Red Hat Satellite 6. Sat6 is used for package management, provisioning servers, and security scans. I’ve secured gigs in the past paying $85-$95 an hour with this skill.
Don’t ever say I never gave you anything.
buff.ly/3Cf6erE
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The constant obsession with trying multiple passive income ventures is funny because my homie just works 2-3 DevOps contracts a month and makes on average 35k a month. He just grinds and throws his checks into index funds. It can be really simple.
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If you want boring but consistently paid boomer Govtech jobs then learn VMWare. Your phone will stay ringing with recruiters.
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I don't see the problem banning them because if I'm in a secluded area and notice walking in my peripheral with one on , I'm gonna get to reachin . Don't got time to play games.
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Most people pick tech skills randomly. I did business research first. Studied government contracts, analyzed what Fortune 500 companies actually use, looked for market demand. Passion doesn't pay bills, demand does. Use AI to act like a Gartner analyst and map your learning path. Linux led me to Kubernetes for a reason.
Full video is on my youtube channel: piped.video/ZCabSpK-dqA?si=EhKM…
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If you wanna backdoor your way into a cyber security job then focus on being a devsecops engineer. Automating container and server hardening and you'll be good.
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Leveling up feels so damn good. Whether its a new certification, increasing your bench press or anything else that makes you feel like you’ve grown. Its so good for your holistically.
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Build projects. Document everything. Make videos about what you're building. Post on LinkedIn. I've seen people land jobs just from sharing their projects there. Stop making "day in the life" content where you're just typing. Actually build something.
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I got promoted to a Senior Security Cloud Engineer position and I have no idea how that happened. Idk how @TayOnTech does this. People asking me too many questions. I’d rather be the sys admin that kicks his feet up and watches youtube videos when everything is working.
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The opportunity to break into the tech field just got even bigger. AWS frequently secures government contracts that require security clearances, which means you might have the chance to get sponsored for a clearance and work in a secured data center.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Amazon $AMZN announces $20 billion US investment to "advance AI innovation."
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Too many dms lol, just use this certpreps.com/
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“ you only work in tech for the money“ you would be surprised how many of your dentists , medical doctors and tax accountants are in their careers for the same reason . Plus I used to take apart my Xbox and hack photobucket and MySpace so I’ve been in this field since I was 10.
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Dude at the cigar lounge overhead me talking to someone about network security and subcontracting work . He told me he was looking for black networking engineers to bid on his contract with the NC government. Cigar lounges are a underrated networking hub.
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the hardest part about getting in tech is getting the first job, once you get it and stay for about a year then its up.
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This guy I used to work with has so many Redhat and Devops certs. He can charge customers whatever tf he wants to 💀
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Having access to people who work in critical industries like Law, Medicine, Real Estate and Gov Contracting is extremely helpful when it comes to advancing in life. Try to make more connections or join organizations that allow you to meet those kinds of people.
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Your biggest advantage in tech right now isn't another course. It's having an AI mentor available 24/7. Ask it for project ideas, real-world scenarios, five-year forecasts. I didn't have that luxury when I started with just YouTube and blogs.
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So for one of my new contracts I’m basically getting paid to be on call during the day to support Red Hat Openshift tickets/issues. They’re basically paying me 85/hr to troubleshoot a product they paid for but don’t feel like learning. This is more common than you think.
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Openshift is really my bread and butter. Hourly rates going for $85-$120 on the public side so I know its even better on the cleared side.
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Here’s a video on in demand tech jobs, pick one of these and then do some research on how to get into that particular role.
piped.video/WkFSKuLSQD4
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Cloud engineering reality check: You'll spend more time in Excel justifying costs than in Terraform writing code. Bootcamps don't teach you how to translate 'we need better observability' into 'this prevents $2M in downtime.' That translation skill is worth 6 figures.
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Meanwhile our community is arguing about how we shouldn’t learn AI because its controlled by the illuminati and its better to do PPP loan fraud instead.
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when them 3-4 paychecks hit at the same time you some enthusiasm ..... or at least so I've been told. 20k a week will keep you going.
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The best tech jobs are the ones when if nothing is broke then you have free time to look around the system and just see how things work or you use that time to learn a new skill that you can use at your current job and future opportunities.
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