Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with the court king's team random. So basically people were buying teams and then we took out the remaining teams and we turned that into a random team break. So it's a pick your team random team hybrid right here. So and the random team part features a pretty nice team right here and I promised that I would give away some break credit if we fill up that court king's filler. So here's what we're going to do first. We're going to randomize all of your names here and then match you up with the team and then we'll re-randomize your names and then the top two get matched up with some break credit. So yes, there is a chance you can get the hornets and 50 bucks of break credit. That'd be pretty nice right. Alright, so again big thank you to these folks for getting it on the action. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. 5 and a 4. 4 and a 5. 9 times. The money giveaway will be a different dice roll. So, but for the teams, 9 times. Good luck. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and at 9th and final time, Alan congrats to you. After 9 times, you get the hornets and we'll put little rooftops next to your name so you know you won those in the team random. And the break itself, the court king's picker team, 4 break itself will be coming up in a separate video. Now, let's grab everyone's names again, new dice, new list. Let's roll it and randomize it. 9 times again. First time was 4 and a 5. The next time was 5 and a 4. Right? See the time is half. So, both 9 times. Top two, we'll get a little bonus break credit, 50 dollars of break credit each. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and good luck, 9th and final time. After 9, it's Don and Fuad, 50 dollars of break credit going your way. So congrats to you. Thanks everybody. Coming up in a separate video will be the break itself, jaskiescasebreaks.com.


Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and here we are with a video of winter time considerations for your Minuteman gear. I am originally from Minnesota. I lived in Minnesota for a very long time, and so if there's anything some people in Minnesota know, it's how to deal with cold. So that's my qualification for making this video. When it comes to tactical operations in the winter, I think there are two considerations that I can think of off hand. There are probably more, but at least two that I can think of that you need to deal with. The first one is you need to not freeze to death, right?  So you need to have stuff like a fleece, right, and a watch cap, and you'll want to wear long underwear. You'll want to have some decent pair of thick socks on, which I don't have on the table here. You want a good pair of winter boots, which I don't, I have several winter boots, but I don't have any ones that I really want to trunch around in for hours right now. So that's something I still need to add here, but you're going to want those things so you don't freeze to death, right? That's your first consideration. On super cold days, right? I've been out when it's 20 plus below out. You're going to want to double layer your gloves, right? So you want to be able to have a lighter pair of gloves that you can shoot, manipulate guns with, do tactical stuff, and then like a good heavy overmitten, right? For those super cold days, like I said, when it's like 20 below out and you don't need to necessarily pull the trigger right now, but you need to move around and whatever, you need a good pair of gloves, right? Now, these aren't tactically colored. We'll get to that. But again, first consideration is to not freeze to death. That's the most important thing because the cold will get you before the bad guys will. That's where things like baklava's can come in handy, right? Again, this one's black. I got a white one that I'm probably going to order, but things like that to not freeze to death because that's a priority here. When it comes to sleeping, a bivvy bag, this is just an old USB-I bivvy bag, is going to do wonders. You know, these are made out of Gore-Tex, so they're waterproof. They do a very good job of trapping heat in you. They do a very good job of trapping heat inside as well as preventing moisture from getting inside the bag, right? From like melted snow and stuff like that. So you're going to definitely need some kind of additional thing for your sleeping bag or something like that. So again, you don't freeze to death because remember, you can't necessarily just build a fire. If you're out doing goon stuff, building a fire is rarely an option for you when you're out in the rural environment, right? Because fires give signals that, hey, we're here, and then there's smoke and there's light and there's all kinds of problems. So you need to bring the warmth with you. That's where something like that could be super, super helpful to have a comfortable night's sleep.  I'm sure you've seen those. Like hunters will wear them, they'll put them in their pockets. Having several of those in your bag is going to do wonders. I have several in my truck that I just leave in their year-round for when I'm out when it's colder. But putting a couple of those in your pockets is going to help you stay warm.  Again, you're going to want to wear long underwear and thick socks and stuff like that to keep yourself warm because the cold becomes the greatest enemy.  Once you get into the north and you start, you know, seeing two, three, four, five weeks of below zero degrees Fahrenheit temperatures just straight the whole time, then you start to have a better understanding of what cold is. And being able to operate in such an environment like that has a lot of special considerations, namely, not freezing to death. So that's that. I think I've belabored that point enough. The second consideration is then having some kind of tactical coloring, right? So this is a white multi-cam helmet cover that I'm going to put on my helmet here once the snow starts falling.  Yes, that would work as far as camouflage goes, but I'm trying to maintain my ballistic protection.  The other thing, and this is just an example, but having some kind of white cover all, right? So this is like a white with a little tree thing. I think I bought this at a hardware store. But this is not a thick material at all, okay? It's a super thin material and it's just designed to throw over your coat. So it doesn't matter what color your coat is or your other winter gear, you can just throw this over it and then you're going to have some degree of camouflage. Your webbing, which is most likely not camouflage for the winter, you can just then throw over this. Yes, you're going to lose your camouflage, but at least it's something. And if you want to have a separate set of white tactical gear that you run, that's totally cool. Knock yourself out. But that's definitely some kind of consideration. The other consideration would be something with your gun itself.  If you want to go all in, you could just paint your gun white. But again, then you got the other consideration that comes back to not being winter and depending on where you live, the winter season is likely shorter than the other seasons, so it's probably not the best move for you. So those are some considerations I think. Again, I don't think this is an exhaustive list. I think this is just some things to get you started thinking about what are gear considerations I need to make in my individual kit for the winter time. And let me tell you right now, the first one is don't freeze to death.   But just start thinking about as winter approaches here, what are considerations I need to make in my kit? What do I need to throw in my pack so that I have it in there right now to keep my kit in a constant state of readiness? I hope that's helpful. I hope that sparks some thoughts. Let me know if I missed anything major. Do brave deeds and endure.


The S3 API is in storage feature that has been provided by Amazon for a long time, but it's also an open protocol so other companies can emulate it. And that does include TrueNAS and FreeNAS. And they have taken, and there's an instruction here, and we're going to dive deeper into it. So S3 is an object storage provided by major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services. It's well-studied for storing unstructured data like multimedia, video files, photos, and other big data. TrueNAS and FreeNAS run MiniIO object storage as a native service allowing NAS storage to act as a storage target with standard S3 APIs. And this is a really great feature and the use cases are frequently because, well, there's a lot of software out there already written to take advantage of S3 storage. You've already got the protocol written. It's a robust, well-documented feature set, along with a lot of your popular backup utilities, which do include things like Veeam or MSP360. And we're going to play with a little open source tool called Duplicati, but they all support that as one of their targets for where to dust in the backups. So having your FreeNAS act as a S3 target makes a lot of sense. Now, just be clear, this is not backing up a FreeNAS 2 S3. This is S3 being the target. So whatever software you want to use, you're going to point it at the FreeNAS instead of like an Amazon S3 bucket or one of the other companies that emulate one. So you can have control over your storage. We'll cover some of the details and ins and outs of it. But first, if you'd like to learn more about me or my company, head over to launcestos.com. If you'd like to hire short project, there's a hires button right at the top. If you want to support this channel in other ways, there's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services we talk about on this channel, including a link to our Patreon if you'd like to become a Patreon supporter. We also have a swag store where you can get shirts and other items that are for sale and that changes from time to time what's available and what's not. So go ahead and check that out frequently. And finally, our forums. If you'd like to have a more in-depth discussion about this video, suggestions for new videos or just reach out, say hi and talk tech, our forums are a great place for that. All right, now back to the content. Now the system we're working on the platform is gonna be FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1. So just so you know what version we're on for all of this in case anything looks different if you're watching this sometime in the future or you have not updated your system and you're going, hey, I don't have those features. Now Mini IO, Min IO, I think that's how you pronounce it. High performance Kubernetes native object storage. This is the tool on the back end which is a fully open source S3 compatible API emulator essentially built into FreeNAS. And I wanna do a video on this at some point in time, but it's actually really impressive because it goes beyond the normal S3 and has a ton of other features that are not just where you set it up as an S3 API but the ability to set up multiple servers and tie them together for multiple object storage and creating a large storage pools cumulatively through this storage system. It's actually a really impressive data set. It's a really impressive system. It's completely free and works on more than just free BST. It also works on Windows or it works on Linux. So it's actually kind of a cool where you can set up a storage server, not to get too far off, but go to miniominmin.io and you can learn a lot more about those products. But they've saved you all that trouble and built it right in here to FreeNAS. And while Amazon S3 seems really reasonable if you start looking at some of the pricing and all the features they offer you for this type of storage, you will find that when you start storing upwards of 700, 800 terabytes and we have customers with that level of storage, that they may wanna run it at their own data centers on their own true NAS or FreeNAS systems. That's kind of the point of setting some of this up like I had said. And for reference, I will leave duplicati.com, a link to this. This is just the software we're gonna be using to demo how the S3 bucket works. And I'll leave a link to this because there's some write-ups and details that they have over here and they have a guide for things that are go way out of scope of this particular topic. So let's start with the basics. How do we set this up? We're gonna go over to storage. We're gonna pool and we're gonna create a place to put it. So I have a couple of projects going on with MiniIO. Like I said, that's gonna be some future videos I do. But for now, let's just add a data set. And what are we gonna call it? I don't know, S3 YouTube? Call it whatever you want. S3 YouTube, cause I'm gonna delete this later. So please note, that's it. I didn't add anything, no special permissions, no special configuration. Because when you go into the S3 setup, which is really straightforward to do here, we're gonna go over here to services, S3. Click the little icon there. Leave it bound to whatever IP address you want. We have several here, but we're gonna leave it bound to all of them. Port, I'm gonna leave it 9,000 for default because that's perfectly fine. And you can tell I've already tested this before. So we're gonna go Mount Dozer and here's that S3 YouTube. Now the reason I chose a new one is to show you what happens when you choose a new data set. One, it'll delete everything in that particular data set so don't choose an existing one and mix storage cause it's about to blow that away. Second, it takes care of all the permissions for you. So I don't have to do a second part where oh yeah, you gotta change all the permissions to this, they thought of that for you. So when you do that, it's set the permissions. And alls it did was set the permissions to be user and owner of MinIO. So pretty straightforward on that when you go back and look at the permissions. So access, create whatever access key you want. Create a reasonably good access key in terms of, so you understand that when you create this, they have a link to the AWS documentation to dive in details of how you should keep those secrets. Don't provide your access key to a third party, find your canonical user ID, et cetera. There's a lot of things that are important that there's not like multi-factor authentication and generally using this as a web transport. So you want a really high entropy secret access key that you don't hand out to anyone that's an important part and use something rational for an access key when you're setting this up. So secret key, we use something completely irrational. I put in demo one, two, three, four. That's a terrible idea, but that's because this is a YouTube demo and I wanted something I could type. Normally your access keys are going to look like something like this and be particularly long. That is that security that you want in there. Also, when you're doing this over the internet as a transport layer, when they ask you the certificate down here at the bottom, if you don't choose a certificate, it will work without encryption. That's bad because anyone, especially if you're doing this as a web transport would be able to grab that information. And I believe it's just encoded in base 64, which means if you don't have a transport encrypted layer, well, someone could just pull that out and reverse it. So you don't want to skimp on things like that. Make sure you're choosing a certificate. And final note on this, self-signed certificates. That is the default tier. This is a self-signed LTS certificate that I created for this Freeness instance. If you wanted to load a non-self-signed certificate, you may have to do that because not all backup software or protocols or systems you're using will allow self-signed certificate. Specifically, when we go through the demo with Duplicati, you will notice that it will fail unless we put in the self-signed, check the option to allow a self-signed certificate. This is true for a lot of different backup software. Some may not even have the option to accept self-signed because they're expecting to point this at an Amazon bucket that's gonna have one of the Amazon certificates for it. So I just wanna get all those things out of the way. But once we've done this, we've chose the location, the dataset that we want. We've set this terrible password and the access key to YouTube and demo1234 and we leave it at port 9000 and enable browser. I am gonna leave that on and I'll show you why. So we're gonna hit save. All right, then we just turn it on. Pretty simple there. And if you want it to be on on startup, well, you just check the on startup box. Let's go back over to our storage, pools and we're gonna look at this S3 YouTube. We're gonna look at the permissions on it. Sorry that my face might be in the way here, but it's just the three dots, click on it and hit edit permissions. And you can see it took care of the setting of the permissions for us. So user and group mini IO, or min.io. I keep wanting to call it mini IO, but you don't need to touch these. Don't mess with them. You're going to break things if you do. Now that we've done that, we're gonna go over here and hit duplicate tab. Just out of convenience. Colon, nine, one, two, three. Now this is the enabled browser part that I turned on and once again, self-signed certificate. Access key, YouTube demo1234. Now, what it's done is, they've also built in the, well, allowed you to turn on, I should say, the min IO browser and it's just a way so you can see or create buckets and see some of the data in them. It's kind of a quick verification for being able to make sure it's working, be able to see the objects or the data within there. So we're gonna add the plus over here and we're gonna create a bucket and we'll just call this bucket Tom. Now buckets have restrictions, can't use special passwords or even uppercase characters if we were to try and do that, it's gonna fail. So we're gonna back over here to create bucket, let's call it Tom, enter. All right, so now we got the Tom bucket and it's got, if you had a lot of buckets, the option search is pretty basic way the browser works and let's upload something to that particular bucket. So once again, we're in that bucket, so we hit the plus, we just hit the upload and this video looks funny. So we'll say cat perfect, excuse plan, we'll just throw it into the bucket right here. Now from there, it's in a bucket, but what does that mean? Well, you may have seen this and a lot of companies do this when they're doing things like sharing a link. Now let's say we had this open to the public on port 9000 and we wanted to share this link to someone. We can actually create a link that expires in one hour and hit copy link. So we'll just real quickly here open an incognito window so we're not logged in and it would load this particular video from this object storage. So this is kind of neat that they built the browser and it definitely makes it a little bit easier and for reasons unknown, this video doesn't wanna play probably the format it's in, it doesn't like. But if we actually go to the base of this, you can see that we've in here, matter of fact specifically, algorithm, AWS, HMAC, SA, SHA-256 and you can see that it's passed in the URL and everything, the entirety of this to be able to grab that information and store it in here. By the way, this is one challenge that you're doing this, both a combination of you want all this encrypted because now you just passed all this information to get to this particular file. So hopefully you wanted this file to be public but if we go down to the base here, even though it's base was cat something, something right here and we delete everything after it shift end, we don't get access to it. It just brings us back to the login screen. So that's some of the features that the browser does offer on there and you can refer to the mini IO documentation to dive deeper into that. So now that we've got this created and we got a bucket created kind of the basics, cool, that's neat, but what about using it as my target for storage? Well, that's where Duplicati comes in. Now, other tools like Veeam and MSP360 also support S3 object storage, but Duplicati was just easy. It's open source free to play with. I don't have to sign some registrations or anything to do it. So I loaded this on a server here, one of my lab servers and figured I'd give it easy demo of showing a bucket target. So we're gonna add a backup and it's got a nice little wizard here. So add backup with Duplicati. This is the, specifically, I'm using the Duplicati 2.0 beta. So demo you tube demo encryption. I like that they have a generate option but side note, if you do use Duplicati, it warns you to back up that password. It'll generate it, if you don't back it up, all your data is lost because it can encrypt it. So let's go over here to next. And storage type. Well, let's say we're gonna say S3 compatible. Matter of fact, Duplicati, and not only Duplicati, it'll work as Amazon AWS SDK, but they also have the SDK for the MinIO, which is really great. So bucket name, YouTube demo, bucket region. These are specific storage classes if you wanted to go a little further, but we also need to specify use SSL and we have to say a custom server URL. Now, what is our custom server URL? Pretty easy, it's this right here. So go there, whoops. Go here, paste this in, <IP_ADDRESS> colon 9,000. And we said use SSL. So that should work, right? We test connection. Oh, you must fill in an ID. YouTube demo, one, two, three, four. Test connection, no, fail to connect. MinIO replied, unsuccessful response from server XML trust failure. That's what I was saying here. And this is one of those things you're gonna run into and we have to choose accept any SSL as in accept our self-sign certificate. Makes sense. Test connection, do you wanna create this now? Yeah, let's create that bucket. Connection worked, awesome. Next. I like that they still call it My Documents even though this is technically the root folder. But we're just gonna back up the My Documents or root folder here. You could select a computer and you can see all the things. It is a neat little program, by the way. It's free. So schedule, run backups. Sure, why not? It's got a scheduling option. Keep all backups. Yeah, that's fine. We're not gonna play with any details. Have you stored that passphrase successfully? Yeah, I definitely did it. Have it committed to memory. It was a great place for that. And run now. Starting back up, waiting upload, and away we go. And we'll run a couple more times. Okay, now that we've run Duplicati a few times, we can go back over to the browser and we'll just reload the page and you can see there's all the different data Duplicati created in here. And here's the buckets, which apparently I misspelled. That's okay, the misspelled buckets in here. And here's the Tom bucket we created with the cat video it didn't load but then here's all these so we can see all the data. Now, here's where there could be a little bit of a problem. Before you think this is the next solution to not paying a bunch of fees and hosting your own S3, please note that this bucket and this bucket, I can set policies but there's not permission options and what I mean by that is there's only one access key and secret key shared. So, let's say for example, we wanted to back up all of my servers and use this built in with FreeNAS MinIO setup just like we did here and I wanna create a bucket for each one. If a single endpoint is compromised that access key, secret key combination is within there. So in this case, we put it in Duplicati. So if someone were to extract those they would be then able to peruse all the buckets and look at all the buckets and then even potentially delete or change data within those buckets. Now, you always should be encrypting data at rest so provided you use a different password in terms of, and we're using Duplicati as the example here but many of the different backup programs have backup password options that we encrypts all the data at rest, that's great in terms of them not being able to view or exfiltrate the data but it still does give them read write access to the data. So that is one kind of shortcoming of doing this inside of FreeNAS as we set it up here is if you're in my case, for example, an IT search writer and you wanted to roll your own backups as in or roll your own storage for those backups and you use a tool such as Veeam and you go, hey, I'm gonna use Veeam to grab all these different clients and back them all up. Well, if you're using the same key over and over again the key combination and one client gets compromised then potentially someone could make a mess of all your backups and I know you could snapshot it to have it but you can kind of see the problem there. Now, to mitigate this and it goes out of scope of this particular talk but the way you would do that is you can load the Minio into a jail and for each jail you would create a different access and shared key and then each jail would have its own storage and now you've done all proper segmentation to create a proper secure backup solution that you can have yourself in terms of storage and if a particular client's compromised well, I highly recommend just on an off chance that they got it, go ahead and re-roll the key. This also saves you trouble if you were to re-roll the key that you didn't have to re-roll it for everywhere you put it. Maybe and hopefully you've only used that access key combination for that particular client. Now, the granularity depends on your security policies. Do you want to create an access key in a jail for storage for every single one? Maybe it is possible and it could be scripted. Like I said, it goes out of scope of this video. Think about what level of security you want but just in generally speaking in scope of this particular video, yes, if you're using S3 storage there's only that one combination key. So, while it's a great solution think about the security implementations before you deploy this at scale or with the suggested way that I just had of individual clients and having individual keys. Just something to think about. I didn't want to end this video without leaving that on a table and bringing up security concerns so people are thinking about them because unfortunately, and this is not just a freelance issue, we see constantly companies when we've covered different security topics where they just constantly use the same bucket credentials over and over again, maybe throughout an entire IoT deployment. And if one of those people decides to anyone reverse engineers and I've covered this before in the news and we've covered this on the How They Got Hack channel where someone compromises one of these devices they go, oh look, the bucket ID was shared. Now we can get to everyone who ever stored something in that bucket because every device has the same one. So don't worry, it's not really a limitation of freelance. It's more of a security consideration that seems to get overlooked very frequently. So there's something out there that's my final thoughts on this as a project. I don't know if duplicating needs its own video but it's a pretty neat product. I do know the MinIO system. I will probably sometime in the future do a more in-depth video on it because it's a really cool tool in terms of creating these S3 compatible systems and it has scalability function well beyond what basic usage we talked about here. I encourage you to take a look at it. It's a pretty neat product. Once again, it's open source so you can stand it up yourself and stand it up on FreeNAS, stand it up in a FreeNAS jail, stand it up in a Debian server, Linux server of your choice. It even has some options for running in Windows which is really cool and it has options for tying all those things together. So that's something future down the road I'll probably get to doing a video on but it's a really cool product. I really like that it's built into FreeNAS and it's pretty easy to deploy. All right, thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. 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Do you remember the last four months of 2020 when your paychecks were larger than normal? That's because social security taxes were not taken out. Now, it's time to start paying those taxes again and repay those from the end of 2020. However, repayments will be in smaller amounts each paycheck, over the course of 12 months. Those separating or retiring before December 30th, 2021, will have the balance of the taxes deducted from their last paycheck. Check your LES and the notes section to see what's being taken out.


In this video, we'd like to show you a comprehensive way of using the folders tool on the coaching manual, organizing our content into a convenient library of information for your club. And we will be more than happy to set this up for you and your coaches, just getting touched to arrange a demo. First of all, we're going to navigate from our locker dashboard to the folders tool on the left here. We've got four top level folders of content. Age phase training, general information, learning the game, and new coaches. Let's take a look at what's happening inside each one. In the age phases training folder, we have the coaching manual's library of training session content curated into the three developmental phases for young players, so you can easily access the content that's right for your particular team. Within each phase folder, we've got the content split up more specifically by age, and there's also an age-appropriate strength and conditioning folder in there, featuring drills for speed, agility, etc. And for the youth development and development phase folders, we also have some goalkeeping content. In the general information folder, we've got some content on how to use the coaching manual, including planning your first session, as well as some one-to-one training ideas for your players, which can be really useful during periods away from the training field. The learning the game folder is a brilliant resource of information for the fundamentals of the sport, for a variety of audiences. The player folder in this section holds a bank of content that will help players take good care of their mind and body, as well as the ball, of course. At the coaching manual, we are big on looking after every player throughout their soccer journey, because we want everyone to get the most out of the sport, reach their potential, stay healthy, and of course enjoy themselves. We've also got parent education resources in this folder, because the child gets most out of the sport and importantly stays engaged with the sport when their parents are on board, understand the game, and are involved in the process. And of course, there are coach education resources here too. From learning about the principles of play to developing game management skills and getting the most out of match day, it's all in here. And because at some point we were all new coaches, we've included a section just for new coaches who might be volunteering or taking on their first coaching role at your club. Getting onto the grass for the first time can be a daunting task, so we've put everything you need in here to feel confident getting started as a coach. From ways to improve player behaviour, to tips on communicating with parents, to setting up your first session. The content in this folder should settle some of the nerves that new coaches might have. This folder structure would be really helpful to most clubs and coaches, as our content is set out in an intuitive, user friendly way. However, it's just one example of how the club organisational folders tool can be used on the coaching manual. You can set folders up any way you might want. You can also share these folders with other coaches in your team, and with other teams within your club that have coaches assigned to them, all at the touch of a button. From the folder you would like to share, simply click the share button and toggle the teams and coaches you wish to have access. There's a lot that can be achieved with the folders tool on the coaching manual, and a lot of time to be saved. It's great for communicating your coaching philosophy or managing your curriculum across your club. Getting touch with us for a full coaching manual demo today.


So the reason you clicked on this video is because you wanted to know whether a communications major or a communications degree is going to be worth it. Is it going to be worth going $40,000 in debt and spending four years of your life grinding away in order to get this college degree? Well, you clicked on the right video because that's where we're going to be going over, but first we need to define what exactly is communications. And to be honest with you, it's a little bit difficult to define. So for instance, I got this definition from thebestschools.org, which is a pretty good resource. Communications degree focuses on effective communication through a variety of means, including print, web, social media, mass media, and the spoken word. So it's a little weird whenever you have a definition of a word that has the word itself and the definition. And you can see here that this applies to so many different things. It's said print, web, social media, mass media, and the spoken word. So there's so many different types of communication. It continues with a definition of a communications degree where it shows a communications degree has the potential to apply to almost any subject, discipline, or professional setting. And that makes a lot of sense. You are going to be using communication, no matter what career path you end up going down. Now I'm an introvert, a lot of people who watch this channel are introverts, but there's no escaping it. You're going to have to communicate with other people. But again, what exactly is a communications degree? Usually when I type in a degree name into Google, there's tons of different resources that will tell me exactly what it's all about. So here's another definition from prepscholar.com. So it says, communications major is the study of how to effectively communicate different types of information. So again here, it is using the word communication to describe what a communications major is. Here's another one from wayup.com. A communications major is a major designed to teach you about effective communication. Same thing. Here's another one from top universities.com. A communications degree is all about learning how to communicate communication skills. Wow. Using the word communicate three times in the same sentence, I am actually pretty impressed by that. So I think you guys get my point here. This is such a general skill that it's hard to even define what exactly you're learning here. This is almost like a life degree or something along those lines. It's so general that it's hard to actually define what it is. Like imagine if there was a life degree and you had to define what exactly a life degree is. You'd probably say something like, a life degree is all about living life and figuring out how you can live your best life. Now don't get me wrong. Communication as a skill is extremely important. I mean, look what I'm doing right now. I'm literally broadcasting and communicating to you guys using the medium of video on YouTube. No doubt communication as a skill is one of the most important things that you can possibly learn. And with the rise of technology in the last 100 years, there's so many different ways that you can communicate. And that is why this degree has gotten so popular. Overall, this is one of the most common degrees that people get. There's over 96,000 people here in the United States of America. They graduate every year with a bachelor's and a communications related degree. Now when I'm doing research on these videos, there's several different resources that I like using to figure out what types of career paths people end up going down when they get different degrees. Usually these resources are pretty accurate. And I make sure to cross reference them to make sure that, you know, people that are getting these degrees actually commonly go down these career tracks. With this degree, it was literally all over the place. There is no common career that people who graduate with communications degrees end up going down. Now that could either be a good thing because of how flexible the degree is, or it could be a bad thing because it's just so general that it's not teaching you specific skills that people are looking for. So it's sort of a double-edged sword. And that is going to be one of the general themes that I come back to during this video. So one really important thing, especially since this is a personal finance channel, is to talk about earning potential or salary. So with this degree, you can expect to make around $45,000 a year starting out and $79,000 in mid-career pay. You can compare that to a high and a low-paying degree and you'll see that it's on the lower side. Like I mentioned before, there's so many different career paths that you could potentially go down, but one would potentially be a broadcast and sound engineering technician. And they make $45,000 a year and that's around $21 per hour. So I'll go ahead and throw up some of the common career paths that people might end up going down and you'll see that it is all over the place. So you've got announcer, broadcast and sound engineering technician, editor, film and video editor, interpreter and translator, photographer, public relations specialist. I think you get the idea here and it would be tough to say a common career path that they go down just because there's so many different ones. But one thing you do notice here is many of them aren't very high paying. Now when it comes to how much money you would make over a lifetime with a communications degree, you'll see that it's around $2.3 million according to the latest US Census Bureau data. And you could compare that to all majors and all different types of occupations, which would be 2.4 million. Now again, that is over a lifetime. So that was in the last 40 years. So who knows what's going to happen in the next 40 years. It could be completely different, but generally speaking, it's not the best sign. So overall, when it comes to pay, this one isn't amazing. I'm going to give it a score of 5.5 out of 10. So next we're going to be talking about satisfaction. And when it comes to satisfaction, I always like to break it down into two different important areas. And the first one is going to be meaning or how much you think your career positively impacts the world. Now, PayScale has a meaning score that they give different degree types based on the surveys that they send out. And according to PayScale, communications degrees have a 45 percent meaning score and you can compare that to a radiation therapy degree and a plastics engineering technology degree, which is a good one and a bad one. And you'll see that it is on the lower side. So most people who are getting communications degrees end up going down career paths where they're not necessarily thinking that their job significantly positively impacts the world. But this section is extremely subjective. And depending on the person, you might not care all that much about meaning or you might think that you don't care that much. But at the same time, later on down the line, you're going to discover that it's more important. One of my favorite books, for instance, is Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel. And without going into too much detail, he was basically somebody who was in a Holocaust camp during World War Two. And, you know, some horrible things happened to him. It was a situation that was just awful. So obviously his satisfaction during that time was quite low. But because of the fact that he had meaning, he knew that he was going to do something that was going to positively impact the world. And he did have meaning in his life. He was able to get through those hard times. So in many ways, I would argue that meaning is more important than job satisfaction. However, it really is going to depend on the person. But with that being said, one career path you might end up going down would be broadcast technician. And they have a meaning score of 47%, which, again, is on the lower side. If you look at their job satisfaction score, it's going to be 46%, which if you compare it to a really good one and a really bad one, you see that it's maybe average or slightly above average. But it's really difficult to say what your job satisfaction is going to be with a degree where there's so many different career paths you could end up going down. However, if you look at a survey that ZipRecruiter did where they basically asked people if they significantly regretted getting their college degree, and you can see that communications is the fifth most regretted type of degree. Around 27% of people said that they really regretted getting that degree, and the main reason was because it's too general. The one thing that I really want you to keep in mind here is this is probably the most subjective section. There's so many different things that are going to go into how much you enjoy your job or how much meaning you get out of it. It's the place you live. It's the people you work with, your boss, the company you work for, the industry. All of these things can significantly change what your job satisfaction is going to be like.  However, you might not have very much meaning. You could potentially get bored playing video games all the time, and you're not necessarily helping a lot of other people out, although you could argue with me on that one. Maybe there's some streamers that help a lot of people. I don't know. And then an example of a career where you might have very low job satisfaction, at least a lot of people would think of it that way, would be a garbage man. So maybe they don't have very high job satisfaction. However, they might have a very good meaning score, meaning they are definitely positively impacting the rest of the world. Their job is extremely meaningful.  So depending on the person, job satisfaction might matter more, meaning might matter more, but overall, this one's very difficult to rate. I'm gonna give it a seven out of 10 when it comes to satisfaction. Next, we're gonna be going over demand. And this is basically for the skills that you learn with various degrees, how many people are out there, how many business owners and hiring managers are out there that need those skills and are willing to pay you for them. So going back to the broadcast and sound engineering technician, there's around 140,000 jobs available right now, and it's growing at 9%, which is much faster than average. So that's a pretty good sign. However, the problem here, same thing I mentioned before, there's so many different career paths. You can go down with this one because it's so general, so it doesn't really make sense to single out one career and talk about that. So it's pretty difficult to do a lot of research on this one, but one survey from big companies showed that only around 18% of them were actively looking to hire communications majors. You can compare that to 81% for engineering and 78% for business degrees. And a lot of the time in college, people will sort of joke about communications degrees being the athletes degree because it's one of the easier ones and you kind of just have to show up to class in a lot of the cases and you'll get by. And don't get me wrong, communication as a skill is very important, but usually you have to learn a specific type of communication. So for instance, YouTube videos are gonna be completely different than podcasts. And a lot of the time when it's an industry specific skill or just specific knowledge like that, you're gonna have to actually do it in order to learn. I love the saying, I forgot who said it, but it's basically any skill can be learned but not any skill can be taught. So there's tons of people graduating with this degree and there's honestly not all that much demand for people who have this very general skill because of the fact that it's so industry specific. So I'm gonna have to give this one a six out of 10. So next we're gonna be talking about X factors. And this is anything that I think is important that didn't make it into the other parts of the video. So remember when I mentioned that communications degrees over a lifetime, at least the latest census, so probably around the last 40 years or so, that would be an entire career, is gonna make around $2.3 million. That is a little bit below average. And if you look down the list at all the different career paths you could potentially go into, you'll see that it's pretty steady throughout. If you go into management, you can make quite a bit more, around 3.1 million. Talked about this a lot on other parts of my channel, but basically, if you have leadership skills, that's extremely valuable. However, a lot of different career paths are gonna be average or even below average in many cases. So it is relatively consistent but it's consistently average or below average. Now I like to use ZipRecruiter skill index and when you look up communications, unfortunately it's just too general to be listed as a skill on there. However, if you look up something a little more specific, like broadcasting, you'll see that it's 27 out of 100. You can compare this to a software engineering degree, which is really good and industrial sewing, which is bad and you'll see that it is on the lower side. Now the weird thing about this is if you got a communications degree and maybe you specialized in broadcasting in like the 1990s for instance, it could have been extremely valuable. However, what ends up happening with a lot of these degrees is they're extremely popular at a certain time and then time goes on, technologies continue to develop and then all of a sudden it's pretty much a worthless or useless skill for you to learn or at the very least it might be useful but getting a degree in it isn't gonna be all that great. However, because of the fact that so many people got a degree in it, departments are created, there's people who rise up through becoming professors and it continues on. Now I do think a lot of these soft skills that you learn getting these types of degrees can be extremely valuable. So for instance, being able to write something down, being able to digest a lot of information, being able to read a lot and understand it, being able to have critical thinking, create an argument and then deliver that argument, being able to just communicate with other people, give speeches, influence people, et cetera. These are extremely valuable skills, don't get me wrong. And not only will they likely help you financially but they'll help you in other areas of your life as well. But I think one of the big issues here is that all skills can be learned but not every skill can be taught. And there's a lot of skills out there that are like this, it's kind of like riding a bike. If you read a manual on how to ride a bike and read every book in the world on how to ride a bike, bought a course on how to ride it, hired a consultant to teach you how to ride a bike, all of that would be great but you're not going to learn until you actually get onto the bike and try to ride it. So with a skill like communication, for instance, I'll take making YouTube videos. I watch tons of videos on how to make YouTube videos, there's so much information out there, there's lots of channels and they're great and all but to be honest with you, I didn't start learning a lot about YouTube until I started making videos myself. That type of communication is not something that I would have been able to learn in a classroom without actively trying to do it myself. Additionally, when it comes to communication, the way that you communicate is going to be completely different depending on what career path or what skill you're trying to specialize in. So for instance, in podcasts, it's usually long form content where it's not very scripted. People are generally just having a conversation or just talking freely about whatever subject it is. Whereas with YouTube videos and videos in general, it's going to be relatively scripted. So people are going to know what they're gonna talk about before they start talking about it and they are going to have a outline for that. At least most YouTube channels I know work like that. There's some that are able to just talk off the top of their head, but that's pretty rare. Now when it comes to the likelihood of automation, you see a huge spectrum here. So for instance, going back to broadcasting, if you became a broadcast technician, there's around a 74% chance that your job is gonna be automated. If you became a sound engineering technician, there's around a 13% chance. So again, because of the fact that it's such a general degree, it's hard to say how easily automated these skills would be. The skill of communication, like giving speeches for instance, being able to talk to other people, understand what issues they're having and then give them feedback, all that sort of thing. Those things will never be able to be automated. Now this is a relatively easy degree and that's why it has that reputation for athletes always getting communications degrees because they're so busy playing basketball or football or something along those lines and they don't wanna have to deal with really difficult classes. However, this is one of those degrees where you can make the most out of it. So if you go into this major and you really apply everything that you're learning, I think you can get a lot out of it. I think that a lot of the soft skills, like I mentioned before, are gonna be extremely valuable for you in the rest of your life, even if they don't directly lead to you making more money in the form of job offers. So with that being said, when it comes to X factors, this one ranks relatively high. I'm gonna give it an eight out of 10. So when you add everything up and you divide it by four, the overall score is going to be 6.625 out of 10, which is okay, it is a little bit on the lower side. If you know exactly what you're getting yourself into, you know what career you're going for, you've reached out to people in that career and they tell you that it would be a good idea for you to get a communications degree in order to get into it, then it might be a good idea. But a lot of the people go for a communications degree just because they don't know what they should major in and I think that's pretty bad. When a business owner or a hiring manager sees that you have a communications degree, it's gonna be very difficult for them to tell that you're going to be able to provide skills that is going to pay your salary. So because of that, I would highly recommend that you consider either double majoring in this one, minoring in it, taking extra classes in it or just studying it on the side. If you are going to major in this one or double major in it, then I really recommend you focus a lot on internships, work experience, skills, as well as networking. Just getting this degree on its own probably will not be enough and you're gonna need a lot more than that in order to convince a hiring manager or a business owner to give you a job. I do think that the skill of communication generally might be one of the most important possible skills that you could learn in life, but it's just so general that it's difficult to see how it's gonna help somebody out. And because of the fact that so many people get these degrees every year, I do think this is one of the most overrated degrees because a lot of people think that they're gonna be able to get a job and then they find out the hard way that they can't. They end up going back to school, getting a master's or they get a job that's completely unrelated and in many cases you wouldn't have needed to get a degree at all. But that's just my two cents and if you want help figuring out what college degree you're trying to go for, you can check out my college degree ranker down in the description below in my Patreon. I've compiled what I think are all of the best resources across the internet and put them into one easy to use spreadsheet so you can kinda see everything right next to each other. I'm really proud of it and I think it'll help you out a lot if you check it out down in the description below if you don't wanna wait for me to come out with more videos. And if you haven't done it already, gently tap the like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell, comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera that you have on the video. 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