Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Can you hear me? Oh, geez. Can you guys hear me? Oh. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Can you guys hear me? You guys can hear me? Oh, perfect. There's this thing at the bottom of my screen that is like a green dial, and if I talk, it's supposed to go up and down. It's not moving, so I wasn't sure if you guys could hear me or not. Awesome. Well, what's going on, everybody? Super excited to do this. There is literally no agenda for today. It's going to be super chill. I have lots of things planned. I actually forgot to move a light. This side is dark. Actually, give me a second. I'll be right back. Let me see if that looks better. Hey, now we're talking. There's no agenda. Usually, these types of things, I have a Q&A session, and people can ask me questions, and there's a purpose. This is more just celebrating you guys doing random stuff because I appreciate you, and you guys have made my life better, and hopefully, I've made your life better in some way. I don't know, but that's what we're doing. I have my trimmer right here. We'll be getting rid of some of this. I can already tell there are some people in the chat that I recognize from the 100K livestream, and on that livestream, if you remember, I think I got rid of my mustache. I have been growing out my mustache big, and then I trimmed it on that one. That's what was special on that one. Today, I'm actually going to be getting rid of all of this, and just keeping the mustache. Keeping that trend next time, maybe I'll do mutton chops, or I'll just keep this stuff, or I'll do a pinstripe, chinstrap beard, I don't know. I'll do something crazy when we get to 200. Then I have my guitar right over here. I might whip it out. I might not. I have kids sleeping. I'm on the top floor, and my kids are across the loft area, so I'm not 100% sure if I can be quiet enough for them or not, but we're just going to go for it. I see a ton of people saying hi in the chat. I'm looking at it. I see you guys. I recognize a ton of names. Hey, everybody, what's going on? This one, usually during the livestreams, if it's a Q&A, and there's a purpose for it, a lot of people join 100, 150, maybe even 200 people. I expect this to be really low attendance, because there's no purpose to it. I'm not going to try to teach you anything. It's literally just, if you want to watch me, you can. We'll see where it goes from there. Let me say hi to some people in the chat. Hey, Chris. Hey, Albert. Al, I don't know why I called you Albert, but that's your name, too, I guess. Darren, Chris, Emmanuel. Let's see, Marco. Hey, everybody. Yeah, and that's another thing is I don't even know what time it is in your time zone, because some people, this is like in the middle of the night. The guy was messaging me the other day. He's like, is this 8.30 Eastern? Because that's like 2.30 AM my time. I'm like, dude, just go to sleep watching the next day. It's no big deal. But hey, everybody, oh, Free Fire sent me a tip. That was nice. He said, congrats on the 150K. I just got an internship with Delta. Whoa, that's what's up doing analytics and sales. Junior business analytics, mathematics student. I completed the GA Tech Intro to Analytics Modeling. That's fantastic, man. Congratulations. That's, I mean, you can't ask for a better starting internship for real. 8.30 in Peru. That's 12.30 PM in Melbourne. Oh my goodness. You don't have to stay up there. Man, nothing crazy is going to happen. And just so you know, if you have to leave early, if you need to go sleep, you have work in the morning, which I also have work in the morning, you know, this will be recorded and you can watch it tomorrow as well. So there's no pressure. You know, if you just want to hang out, though, you know, that's what we'll be doing. I'll be answering some random questions. We'll be doing random stuff. Like I said, I forgot to fill out the water bottle. What a fail. But we'll be doing random stuff and it'll be a fun time. And I'll, of course, be reading the chat throughout, but it's sometimes I'll just be completely ignoring it while I do whatever I'm doing. But I will say, if you are here, if you are here specifically to watch me trim my beard, that will be right at around 8.45 and about 10 minutes. You know, this is like the main event. All right. So if I do it like right away, then, you know, it's not, it's not as fun. Oh, thank you. My beautiful wife in her gym jams her pajamas is going to go get me some water. She didn't want to be. Well, that's not true. She was totally up for being a part of this and like coming on. And I was like, I was like, yeah, you know, come on, that'd be cool. People would love to see you if you'd like a relationship thing where she could like, you know, because she's a, if you guys didn't know, my wife is a therapist. And so, you know, she deals with like clients all the time and stuff like that. Her Jimmy jammies. That's right. That's right. Tell me. I don't know why. I don't know why I said it like that.  I call them gym jams for my little, my children. Anyways, but she was like, she was like, yeah, I'm tired. I was like, yeah, no problem. I was like, yeah, it's no big deal. It's no big deal. Ryan said, congrats on 150k Alex. Thank you. I appreciate it. So your channel really motivated me to work hard for my career goals. Hey, that's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. You know, that reminds me of somebody who's messaging me the other day on LinkedIn and they were like, the basic premise was, you know, I didn't know where to start. I found your channel and now I have like a roadmap of what I want to do or like how to get there and your channel is like really helpful. And I was like, I was like, that's all I've ever tried to do with this channel is just, you know, give people what I didn't have when I started. I started, you know, and I couldn't find any good channels like any good YouTubers online about this stuff. And so I kind of did it all by myself and just figured it out and like did a bunch of unnecessary stuff and learned a bunch of things that I never ever have used and I waste a lot of time doing that. And so the purpose of the channel is just to give a roadmap and help people figure it out.  So, you know, I'm glad I'm really glad to hear that. Thank you. I think Al pointed out, yes, ECU, that's my alma mater. Is that what it's called? I can't remember. But, yes, that is where I went to college. I almost wore my shirt that had my old rec therapies because I used to be, what was I, I was the treasurer of the National North Carolina Recreational Therapy Association. And I had a shirt from one of the events that we had. I almost wore it just to like talk about it. But instead I'm wearing this like bear with beer t-shirt that my wife got me when she was on a trip somewhere. Is the plant real? This is absolutely a real plant. Great question. A lot of people think it's fake. I've had some random people here and there because I read almost every single comment that people put in the comments.  And there's some random people who ask if this is like fake. And no, it's a real plant. My wife, it actually doesn't usually sit on my desk. So it actually sits down in the kitchen. But I bring it up here for the videos because I like the aesthetics of it. And originally it was in every single video at our old house. But in the new house, it sits in the kitchen. Now I have an office up here, like I'm in my office right now, that, you know, I don't actually have that plant. So I bring it up when I do my videos and then I put it back down when I'm done with it. It is a snake plant. It's a snake plant. It is a snake plant. Apparently it's like really great for breathing. It like takes out the toxins or something. It makes the air fresh or something like that. I don't know. Great question, Selena. Selena, great question. That needed to be answered for sure. Five more minutes until I'm breaking out of this bad boy. It's happening. It's going to feel weird.   This will just trim it down to the stubble. I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to go like later on after the show. Not now. Like I'm not going to take five minutes to shave. But I'm not sure if I'm going to like shave it all the way or if I'm just going to keep it like super short because this will get it basically gone. Yeah, let me see. Love your channel. I love you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Make your resume solid. Someone's answering somebody's question. I will get a job at Interim from your content in four months. Hey, do it. Make it happen. Talk about data analysts in 2022. Hey, listen, you know, I have no agenda here. So I'm just going to, if you ask a question and I see it, I might answer it. I will say though, data analysts, you know, if I was starting today, it's so much different than five years ago when I first started. So much different. A lot of people think it hasn't changed that much, but honestly, because I'm in it all the time and I'm always like researching things for videos and stuff, there's so much that's changed. I think one thing that's up and coming slash is already here that you really need to start thinking about is like working in the cloud. I've been telling a lot of people lately and I'm going to make a whole video on this. A lot of people, you know, if you want to get kind of those bigger jobs at larger companies, knowing Azure Google Cloud Platform AWS, something like that is a really big thing.  And it really boosts you up to get to get a position. So 2022 is interesting. A lot of remote jobs. I mean, I'm a huge fan of remote. I'm working right now. I've been working remote since COVID started. And then I like went fully, fully remote because I moved completely away from the campus that I was at in near Dallas, Texas. And I moved out to South Carolina to be in my family. And so remote is like I'd remote the future.  So 2022 will be interesting. I'll look at some of the statistics once kind of things play out. Douglas asks, how do you Alex after the beard trim? What's the guitar song you're playing? I don't know. I just might whip it out, play some random stuff, see if it sounds good. I don't know. I might, I might sing a little of my song. If you haven't seen that, go check it out. I wrote a data analyst line. I don't even remember what it's called. It's pretty good. It wasn't bad. Definitely wasn't bad. I've heard worse for sure. Yeah, cloud is the way for sure. Totally agree. Does your job know about your YouTube channel? What do they think of the content? Really interesting question. I kind of mentioned this in the video on not a data analyst anymore. When I was a data analyst at this current company that I'm at, I got the promotion of analytics manager now. But oh yeah, that's right Al. The truth about my job. Thank you. I needed somebody to know more than I did about my channel. So when I started this channel, I was working at the company I'm working at now. And they found out about it when I got to maybe like 50,000 subscribers or so. Somebody in my company saw it and messaged me about it. And then they started spreading it around and then everybody in my whole department knew. I was working in this like pharmacy claims part of my company and everybody knew about it. And everybody loved it. Nobody had a problem with it. And then I applied for the job that I have now. And that kind of was actually a big selling piece for me getting this job. I had probably I was already I think over 100,000 subscribers, but the people who I interviewed with who were like the director and senior SVP of IT because that's what I work in now I work in IT. They all love that I had a YouTube channel and they were they were like super impressed by it. They loved that I had that those people skills and they knew exactly what they were getting like they knew exactly what they were getting because my boss is boss. So like the the I think he was a senior VP or senior director. I can't remember I got into that interview with him and he was like, dude, I love your channel man. He's like I watched like 10 videos right before the interview. And so it was just, yeah, they everybody knows everybody knows about it. And so everyone and everyone's really chill about it. HR doesn't care. They just like don't slam the company and you're fine. And I've already had that talk with with HR so yeah, everybody knows. Let me let me skim through really close one minute away. That's happening. Whether it's going to be entertaining to you or not. I'm just going to do it. I got this thing. I mean, I have, I'm in like my office so I have carpet here. So I'm going to like put this on my lap. So when I actually trim it, it'll just hopefully go down. I may have to vacuum later. I don't know. Let's see. I'm just reading. I'm reading random comments right now. Congrats on 100 for shield. Thank you. I appreciate you. I love your glasses. Where'd you get them from? I got them from Oh, well actually I tried them on at lens crafters. And they were a bit expensive. And so I bought them off of contacts.com or something like that. I'd have to go check that I'd have to go check that out. But these are very, very, very similar. I actually don't like them as much. They're very similar to the ones I used to have except the glass part is a little bit longer. It's a little bit bigger. Whereas my last ones, the glasses were a little bit higher. They came like there. I'd kind of like that better but I don't know. That's not a big deal. Okay, so this is probably why you're all here. This is a brawn. Let me see if I can get that in focus. It's backward anyways. This is a brawn. It doesn't have to be plugged in, which is why I bought it. I can just travel with it. We're just going to trim. So let's get these bad boys off. This will not work. This will work. This trapping system that I have with this towel is not going to work. Let's see. Let's see. Oh, this is actually perfect. This actually really may work. I lied. Okay. All right. Let's get close up. So I'm going to start over. Actually, what I was hoping for this is I was hoping I could trim certain parts of it off. So I think I'm going to trim right here and right here and then I'll have like a goatee kind of thing with some like mutton chops.  I couldn't think of what I was trying to say. I'll do certain sections of my beard at a time. I would, there's no, there's no audio. Who's saying there's no audio? Fabio? Yo, is Fabio lying right now or do I have no audio? Somebody tell me. I'm looking at, I'm looking at you chat. Fabio, dude, he's trolling me. All right. Fabio is getting booted. He's no longer subscribed to my channel. Okay, so let's start this. Thank you. Thank you, Jeremy. He is lying. So let's start this. And while we're going through this, as I'm getting rid of certain parts, I'd like you to put in the chat, a rating one through 10, like if you really like it, put a 10, if it's like, you know, this is not going to work for one. And at the end, when I just have that, I'll ask for your final rating. It's just something fun to do. Again, there's no prize. I'm just going to do it. All right. So let's see if you guys can hear this. All right. Let's see what we got. I have no mirror. I have no mirror, by the way. So I have no idea. I'm just using, I have the, what you guys are seeing on camera. I am looking at as well. So I love doing this while people are watching. That's not bad. Oh, this is going to look good. This is going to be all right. All right. I guess every, every other, I trim my beard like every couple of days, maybe I just need to start streaming it for entertainment purposes. All right. Let me know, let me know how this looks. I'm going to do this next. I feel like I look absolutely ridiculous. Somebody take like a screenshot of this or something because I'm not taking any pictures. I'm looking at myself. I feel like I look absolutely ridiculous. All right. I got a four from Melissa, a 10 from Mary Angel. I'm not pronouncing that. I'm sorry. Leave the sideburns my dude. That would be hilarious. No, that's not going to happen. This looks terrible. Very stubbly. I need to go like the opposite direction and 11. Come on. Come on. That's not, that's not true. All right. A few people did it. I'm just going to keep going. Let's get rid of this. There we go. Babe, you're missing. My wife isn't even there. She ditched me.  All right. Oh, there she is. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. Did you want to come over here and give me some comments while I did or no? You don't have to. You don't have to be on screen. All right. My wife's coming over. I need some professional. Yeah, looks good. I'm going to do this and then I'm going to trim this. Okay. All right. I'm getting the up. Come on out. 0.5. That's insulting. Are you going to do the mustache? Oh, geez. Are you just going to do the mustache? Yes. I'm just going to keep the mustache. This is my goatee stage. All right, guys. This is the goatee stage. Where? Where? Right here? I do. I'm doing my best. All right. Okay. This is again, this is a stopping point where you can vote. Al said solid seven. I needed that. That was a deep said 0.5 earlier. Mary Angel said two. That hurts. This is more my natural face than it's ever been. So I take that personally. Brendan said eight out of 10. Keep the goatee. I don't. Stone cold Steve Austin. That's right. All right. All right. We're getting some, we're getting, okay. Six from Kila. All right. I appreciate that, guys. All right. I'm going to get rid of like, I'm going to do almost like a soul patch, like right down the middle. I think we'll get higher score. Yeah, we'll get higher. Here we go. Let's go for baby face Alex. No lie. If I shave completely, I look 16. My wife says I look 12. So I will not be shaving completely. But we'll see. All right. Here we go. Well, this is not getting that good. Yeah, that's not really sure enough. See, see, I knew like, well, I don't know if I can get it shorter. It's not. This is as sure as it gets. I just need to shave it. I need to like, genuinely shave it if I want to get shorter. All right. Let's try the other side. I have no idea. How's it look? Well, first of all, your soul patch is a different color. So you can even see it. Yeah, this isn't really working guys. How does this work? How does this look? Your soul patch is like, what happened? Yeah. Let me see if I can show this for you guys. I tried to trim this, but it's like really thick. So it's not working that well. It's a great face on here. Yeah, I'm just doing this for you guys. I don't know why. Wow. All right. Mary Angel is very critical of my facial hair. I even got a 0.0002 from her. Let's see. Let's see. Love the little hair, little bit of hair right below the bottom up. Yeah. Yeah, this is gold right here. Actually, I'm going to... That's it. Yeah. I'm using this as like a mirror. So don't worry about it. It's not bad. That's really not that bad. Okay, that is. I think this is probably the best one yet. I like that. All right, guys, this is another voting moment. Before I trim this, I will be getting... No, I'm not keeping a soul patch. Does it? I feel like I'm dartanian from like the three musketeers. If I had hair, I would be straight up dartanian right now. Yeah, you made it weird. I look... That's me in real life. I make a lot of things weird. Hey, I'm getting some good... The back was a 4, but then Selena gave me a 10. Al gave me an 8.7. Mary Angel gave me a 10. I'm killing it now. I'm killing it. Okay, guys. So, yeah, you can still see it. It's going to happen. I mean, I don't have time without like shaving cream and stuff out here, but I may... I'll spruce this up at least a little bit. I may shave it. You can see your chin dimple. Yes, you can see my chin dimple. If you didn't know, I have a chin dimple. I also have big dimples, or what do they call them? Just regular dimples. Yes, I have very large... I have very large dimples when I smile, but you probably can't see it that much when I have a beard. Yeah, double dimples. Yeah, that's me. All right, I'm going to get the last part, and then we're going to keep going from this. Yes, new for hire Bob Saget did die. It was extremely sad news. Do you see that? What? Bob Saget passed away in a hotel room, breaking news right here on... From what? What is that? I don't know. He's like 65, could have been a heart attack. Anyways, I'm not... Guys, don't let me talk to my wife this much, all right? I'm here to engage with you guys. Yeah. No, I'm going to do this last part, and then... All right, I'm getting rid of the sole patch, and then we're going to be done. Grow the stash out, twist the ends. Actually, Kyle, I did that three, four months ago.   I had a big mustache, but I had a somewhat like the beard I had before, but my mustache was really big, and a lot of people wanted me to trim it, and so when I reached 100K subscribers, then I did end up trimming that on the 100K livestream. So anyways, I'm going to get rid of this now. All right guys, how do I look? Okay, other people are backing you up because they're saying they like the sole patch as well. There's been like three people have said that. I should have. All right, well, let me get rid of this. Yeah, everyone's given me a zero out of zero. Zero out of ten. Zero out of zero. This is the new me, guys. This is who I am now. A mustache. A mustache, man. Let me see. I like to distinguish. Thank you. It will be like this in videos. I don't just do this, and I do videos later on, and... Excuse me. I don't do videos later on, and then, you know, wait for it to grow back out. Like, I will be like looking like this in some of the videos. I like with mustache better. You would be, I think, honestly, I would say I think you're in the minority there, because I think I, for my opinion, I think more people like the just like the short beard that I usually have. I need a hat right now. Hey, babe. Would you mind getting one of those, um, my golfer hats? So my father-in-law, who may be watching this right now, has bought me many of these golfer hats over the years, and I feel like they're for like old men. And I've worn it maybe like a couple of times, but it doesn't keep my head warm in the winter, which is the only time I wear it. Yeah, give me the other one.  I think we should do these. Yeah, just give me both of them. Okay. Um, so they're like these types of hats. So nobody has ever seen this. Nobody has ever seen this. Um, who are they? No. Well, yeah, they said something about a hat. I love it. There we go. And then if I want to get like real cool with it... Put it on backwards. Oh gosh, there's the tag on it. I haven't, um, I never took off the tag. Let me get the tag off of it real quick. Whoops. Yeah. Sorry, father-in-law. Dave, never took it off. This looks bad. This one will actually look better on backwards. Don't put it on backwards. Don't tell me what to do.  This is more like, this is like a caddy from like a caddy shack. Alright guys, it's time to break out the guitar. Alex the detective. That's right. Detective Alex. Hipster vibes. Alex the artist? I like that. How do I look? I feel like a captain. I'm like a captain of something. I bet I am willing to bet a lot of money that somebody who has never seen the channel is like coming into this for the first time. And they're like, wow, Alex is such, you know, he makes such great content. I bet he's going to be a great live stream, really educational. Man, I can't wait to see this. Like, I'm really hyped to learn. I got my notepad ready.  And, yeah, that's that's that's what's happening right now. So this is a very special guitar to me. I bought my first guitar back in high school. I want to say it was a fender. I got it from a local guitar center. But I went in and I was like, what's your cheapest guitar you have for like, people like me, who's like beginners, I just want to learn. And they were like, well, our cheapest one was 100 bucks. I didn't have 100 bucks. I had 60 bucks. So I was like, I was like, do you have any ones that are like broken or like, like are just like on with complete sale. And the guy went back there was like, we have this fender that somebody left. And it's like a really cheap guitar. He's like, I'll give it to you for 60 bucks. I bought it. So that was my first guitar. And then this guitar was when I got my first job over the summer I was working at a sweet frog. And I earned like 2000 bucks that summer. I was like, I am buying a nice guitar because I finally like learned how to play. And I bought this guitar. And so I had this like actually made in the shop as they made it for me. And I've had this one for like, I don't know, six years, seven years now. I love it. Alex just changed to Blippi. Sadly enough, I know exactly who Blippi is. And I take that as a very big insult. If you don't know who Blippi is, he's like this like a YouTuber for kids.  Tell me said 60 bucks is cheap. 60 bucks is for a guitar. That's pretty cheap. That's about the cheapest guitar you can get. What am I going to play you guys? I have no idea. I might play a little of that song or I might just like might just mess around with it a little bit. Let's see what happens. Maybe I can try to create a song live. I don't know. I don't know. Oh geez, Ryan is asking me a real question. This is not the time, man. Well, I'll look out. Let me read the question. I'll see what I can do. I have a question regarding job process. So I have accepted a job offer that starts after I graduate, but I have another job interview scheduled. Should I continue with the interview or decline? No, I would still take the interview, but I would, unless it's like a really good like bump in what you already had, I would probably just keep the original job. It's a long process to go through all that paperwork, all that stuff. I would just keep it. That's my opinion, but I've done that same thing. I've done that same thing. That's way too high for my vocal range, guys. I'm on, I use a capo. I mean, if you guys don't know how to play guitar, I use a capo.  I usually sing on the second. Somebody in the chat, give me something to sing about. Again, I have no idea what I'm doing. I am 30 minutes in. I planned on doing this for like 16 minutes. I've already gone through all my material. So I'll ask me if I'm a baritone. No, I was actually a double bass in college. I actually have an extremely low voice. You probably wouldn't be able to tell, but I can sing like really low. But sing about how I miss my soul patch. That's a good one. I like that one. Sing about shaving. Take the interview. Sarah says take the interview. I agree. Just take the interview to see what happens. But if it's like the same kind of job and you're not like really going towards it, you know, just keep the other one. But it doesn't take to take the other one. Okay, so all I have right now is a song about a soul patch and a song about shaving. And I'm not super. I don't know. I'm not super inspired by either of those, to be honest. Song about wearing different hats, raiders or chargers. Yeah, there's a football game on tonight. If anyone's curious, they want to watch something better. There's a football game on tonight. Did you make a project related to music? No, I made an actual song. Go check it out. I'll put it in the chat earlier. I don't remember what it said. Can you play stairway to heaven? No, I can't. We'll throw out ideas to you. Sing data analyst blues. I don't know how to play the blues. I don't know. I'm just going to go and we're going to see what happens. Maybe I'll sing about the soul patch. It was nice. Sing about my snake plant. Sing Free Bird. Classic. Classic. My last name is Free Berg. Play Free Bird. That was literally my nickname in high school and college. And then wrote, anywhere here's Wonderwall. That's a huge meme. I like that. But no, I won't play Wonderwall for you guys. I know how to play actual songs, but that's not as much fun because then I feel like I actually have to play well. I'd rather just mess around. I'm still reading the chat while I'm playing. I do have a pickup here, but I tend to like finger picking better. I think it just sounds better, in my opinion. But we'll see. Let's go fly a kite. That's pretty random. Instrumentals are great and we can all get back to studying. Honestly, there's like 60 people in here. People are leaving by the second which I told you at the beginning. There's nothing educational happening here. It's just me, a man, a mustache, and a guitar. There's not much going on. You guys are just hanging out with me. Nice beret. This is actually one of these hats. How do I look now? I feel like I look better actually when I wear it like this. The backwards look terrible. Does anyone know Mumford and Sons? I feel like I'm a Mumford and Sons guy right now. I actually need to wear it lower. Oh, that's not the right key. That's a good one. I can sing that one actually. I'm trying to think of the actual song. If you guys don't know who Mumford and Sons is, I was addicted to Mumford and Sons for like two years straight. That's the only band I listened to. I'm a huge indie folk fan. I love the love of Mumford and Sons. I just read in the chat. It's just, again, I don't know what I'm doing. We're learning so much about Alex during this live. Again, there's nothing educational about this. I'm talking about random stuff in my life. Now you know I like indie folk. That's what you get when you attend these if you watch this. You get a little bit of Alex that you don't get in the actual videos. I don't know.   How old am I and when is my birthday? Fantastic question. I'm going to be doing a video on this I believe sometime this year because I get asked that a lot. I don't really want to say, you can kind of decipher it based off of when I graduated college. If you go into my LinkedIn, you can figure it out relatively close. But I didn't initially, when I first started my YouTube channel, I got asked that. I didn't want to talk about it because I didn't think it was very relevant.  He's too young, etc. I just wanted to do my thing. I have a pretty good base. I don't mind telling people and then talking about why I'm going to share that. So I'm going to share about it in this live stream, although that would be groundbreaking, I am sure. But I will talk about it probably in a video soon. Yes, I am 73, Brendan. That is correct. Okay, so let me, I actually, I will try to attempt that song real quick for you guys. I got to remember. That's not the song. I was playing. And I feel hate into your own dust. That we know. And I feel hate into your own. Now, I will wait. I can't remember the lyrics. Yeah, there's this classic somebody put in the chat, Sarah put in the chat, Luminers. There's this really easy song they used to love. And I was first playing, when I first started learning guitar, maybe like eight years. That's an old song. It's like. I've been trying to do it right. I've been living a lonely life. I've been living in my bed. And Luminers is another like indie folk kind of, kind of ban. How did I learn to play guitar? Another, another thing I just taught myself. I would say most of the things in my life I just taught myself. You know, not many people. Nobody in my family is really musical. My brother plays the saxophone. No, not the saxophone. Where's my brother play? My brother plays some woodwind instrument. And he played that in band in high school. I think that's the only other, I don't think my sister play anything. So yeah, nobody else, nobody else plays. Are you sure you're not the singer? No, I am not a singer. I am not a singer. I'm not a singer. I sing for my kids all the time. And my wife, that's true. But one thing I could easily sing for you guys is, is, is, is, um, the truth about a day and one song. I wouldn't feel bad about singing that because I actually, I think I can remember those words. I need you to pull them up actually and review really quick. I can't sing, but I would love to play an instrument by 14. That's what my brother played. He played the clarinet. And my brother also played the clarinet. That's what I'm trying to do. Um, how does, how does that song go? I'll try to get it to where people can like see it. What's, what's the words again? Does anyone remember? Oh, I went on LinkedIn today. That's it. I just need to get started. Once I get started, I'll remember. Dust in the wind. No, it's not dust in the wind, although I can totally see why you think this is dust in the wind. Now that I'm thinking about it, that's pretty funny. Um, Alex, where are you from? Uh, born in Minnesota, raised in North Carolina, moved down to Texas, met my, my wife, had my kids and just moved back out to South Carolina. When I left yesterday, I got a message from somebody saying, saw the dashboard you made last week. They asked me how I knew so much, how I figured out all the stuff there. Here's what I said. I don't know anything, truth is a good little, almost everything. Stack of the flow is my best friend. I'll be using it until the bitter end. I don't, that's the truth about my job. And, uh, notice I'm making mistakes. It took me probably like 20 tries to get that video done in one take. Cause I didn't want to like, I don't, I don't know if you've ever seen my videos before, but I hate editing. Like I'm the worst editor. I don't want to pay somebody to do it. If you compare my stuff to like Kenji's, um, who's some other people? Um, the data science guy, um, data, data professor, Luke Barouse, all those people, they're editing is fantastic. I love their editing. I wish I had those skills. Um, I just like, I'm like low budget over here, man. I just, I, I, I am more of like instructional than, um, entertaining. So like, I don't know. I just don't have that ability. I don't have that skill. So like it took me so many times just to get this right. Um, and, and then I, and I finally got it right. What's the, what's the next verse? Oh, I got to work. I saw them. That's right. I got to work and I settled in and then my boss comes over with a question saying, what did my boss say? His numbers look great. I, I'm forgetting this song. I haven't played in like a couple of weeks. Sorry guys. His numbers look great. Can you show me how you got them? Click around and pull up a script. And we start to look over it. And here is what I was thinking. I don't know anything. Truth is, Google almost everything. Stack or flow is my best friend. I'll be using it until the bitter end. I don't want to lie to you and say I know it all. That's the truth about my job. When over to my mama's house, she's cooking and I settle down.  That's kind of, that kind of stuff makes me moan. How did you learn that on your own? Grown up. That's weird. Grown. I don't know it. Stack or flow is my best friend. I'll be using it until the bitter end. I don't want to lie to you and say I know it all. That's the truth about my job. And I'm never going to tell you that no. That's the truth about my job. That's the truth about my job. I sang something. It wasn't bad. I forgot a lot of the lyrics. I haven't played in a while. Sorry, I'm reading through some of the comments. Luke's editing is amazing. 100 times better than I. I wish I had those skills. That's not how my mind works. That's why he's like, he's just fantastic. He's great stuff. Let's see. It's 7.45. What's that? I should open it up into a Q&A. 10 minutes left, guys. I've done nothing but waste your time.  I've done nothing but waste your time in this. I've shaved a beard. I tried on hats. I sang a song, a little ditty. Is that what it's called? I don't know if that's the right word for it. I may have just said something inappropriate. A ditty. That's what I thought. I might actually stream it right now. Yes. I'm streaming. I'm going to open it up. You can ask me anything. It doesn't mean I'll answer it. You can ask me anything you want to ask me. If I read it and I think it's interesting, I'll open it up. Yes. Let me see. Al, starting off good. What are you learning lately, Alex, and what are you planning to learn in the immediate future? For my job right now, I'm trying to transition my team away from a certain product. I'm not going to name it that we are currently using for some of our analytics and whatnot. I'm trying to transition us into a data lake. So I'm learning a lot more about data infrastructure and data engineering and how we can leverage the cloud to create a self-service analytics platform for my IT department. That is my big, big 2022, 2023 goal. I'm learning all about that stuff. There's not stuff that I've ever learned about. But that's what I'm doing. And what are you planning to learn in the immediate future? Again, mostly cloud stuff. That's where I'm trying to take my team more. We're already in it a little bit, but I'm trying to get more, like, dive into that. Oh, the Schmuck who just joined Kenji just missed everything. What was he doing? Guys, Ken, look, you're like a brother to me. More like a brother than my real brother. And it hurts that you joined this late. Robbie, if you're watching this, that's my real brother. I don't mean that at all. Let's see. New Year's resolutions. Tell me a great question. Do I have any New Year's resolutions? I have zero New Year's resolutions. I have zero goals for this year, genuinely. And Ken, if you're just joining right now, what's your first impression of what's happening in the background and with this going on? I'm just curious. Again, your opinion means not much to me. And so I just want to hear it so I can continue on with the real questions. So let's see. What are my thoughts on Salesforce? I view Salesforce. I've helped implement a Salesforce database. I think it's fantastic for certain size companies, but at certain level or certain level of departments, it becomes not as easy to maintain. It's like, but it's great. I would learn it. New Year's resolutions. Yeah, no New Year's resolutions. Don't forget to like this live stream. Yeah, yeah, do that. Do that. Wait, wait, wait. I skipped some. Mary Angel said your interview questions here has got me a job. So thank you.   You did it. Everyone in here wishes they were you, unless they already have a dating analyst job, but they wish they were you. You made that happen.  I'm super proud of you. Fantastic job. My first day, my first day at job as a data analyst, do you want to know more about that? I don't remember. It was a long, long time ago, many years ago. But I remember like my first job, but that's not super interesting. Kenji said that Kenji would have bummed. You're telling me, my friend, you are telling me. How can I switch to a dating analyst job internally within my company that would be too long to go into?  That probably is. I'm reading all this live. I'm reading like as I go. So if I'm like just reading what you've already read, I apologize. Is there a possibility to use data analyst career as a stepping stone to DevOps? Yeah. Yeah. You're going to need to up skill into different things. I say up skill because it's much more technical. DevOps is much more technical. So yeah, but you can use it as a stepping stone for sure. No, he was a saxophonist. You look French. Sure. Sure, I'll take that. You said data lake and I'm so happy designing a data pipeline that uses a lot of fun when it works. Yeah. Yeah. The last job I has as a data analyst, I worked a lot with our ETL processes. Like just a ton. I loved it. I love automating things. Like that's my thing. And so yeah, big, big fan. Got a new job recently using tons of SaaS. Have you worked with SaaS? I know I've used it. I've opened it up. I practiced in it just to really understand what it is. I've never used it in my job, but I've had a lot of people I've worked with using it in my job. And so I know that it is worth, it can be worth learning and it can be good. No, I haven't used it. Kenji says, and I asked him earlier what I, what he thought. He said, it looked like you went back in time to offer me a cab ride in 1930s. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Hey, pal, you need a ride? You need a ride, pal? That's Molda. That's like a New York, a New York Smolda. Smoking a cigarette. I need like a leather jacket. All right, I have a leather jacket. I'm not going to go get it. I have one. All right, let's catch up. Brief salary range for Daniel is two and three positions. I, it's Daniel's two. I don't know what two and three means tip for landing remote job. Make a really good portfolio. You know, work with recruiters. All the, all the good stuff that I would tell you, it's the same for finding an in-person job as a, it's very similar to finding an in-person job as a remote job these days because most people are doing their interviews remotely. So it's not a lot, not too much different. How long did it take me to learn the guitar? It took me like a year to be just okay. Like know the basics. It took me a long time to really pick up on it because my fingers were, I just couldn't get it. It probably took me about three to four years to be pretty good. And now, now when I'm at now, which is like pro, I'm just kidding. Yeah. It, I, I never progressed past like just pretty good. I'm, I think I'm decent, but I'm not, I have lots of friends who are much, much, much better than me. And the same guy who asked how long it took the Amenia, Amenia. He said, I love your videos. Learn. I'm out full. It's 324 AM here in Nigeria. Good night, dude. Go to sleep. Get some rest. I appreciate you. I appreciate you joining though. I love you, man. I love you. I love you. Um, let me see. Um, I'm just giving me, I got, I, I supposed to end at 930. Do you need me to end at 930? They were, you're going to be able to try in the 930. Okay. I might go a few minutes past 930. Um, but I, you know, I don't have a lot of, uh, let me see. I'm not going to stay at that long. Um, hi. Um, Michael says, hi. I'm currently finishing the Google data certificate while I'm working through Udemy's SQL and data analytics and nano degrees. Oh, Udacity's SQL and, and data analytics, nano degrees, additional learning via data quest and 365 data advice. Um, I think what you're doing is fantastic. I, it sounds like you have a lot on your plate. Those are, that's a lot of stuff. Um, and so I would just keep doing with what you're doing. Make sure you're focusing on the right skills. Um, data quest and 365 data science has lots of great stuff. If you don't know what you're trying to learn, it may not be worth it.  I would just focus on that stuff. Oh, let me see. I started my first day as a data analyst tomorrow. Your videos really helped me build a portfolio. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Great to hear. Congratulations on the job. Congrats. I accept more people for your advice session in 2022. Um, I think you mean my like mentorship. Yeah, I, I will be, although I have a very long wait list. I, I, I posted something on LinkedIn about a mentor that I, that I still work with. I, that he got a job at PayPal and, um, I got bombarded with people who wanted to meet a mentor them. And I was just like, honestly, honestly, uh, you know, I have my wait list is like, it, it, it's extremely, extremely long. Um, and so I kind of just go with the flow. I'm not really taking people on the wait list right now because it's just way, way too long. Um, let me see. Kenji said pretty good. A cabbie impression. Honestly. They ain't bad. It ain't bad. That's a good day. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, a semi. A semi. Right. Then we have the Mike and Katy questions. But I don't always listen to, you know what I mean. I was listening to my way. Now. No. No, I'm not doing that. I don't need an audience for that. Anyways. Uh, do you know agile methodology? Do I need to know it? Agile methodology is just a way to break up work. I use agile where, where I work. If you don't know what that is, it's like a way to aair. We set aside work for two weeks, two weeks, two weeks, and we go from there. You don't need to know it, but I put on your resume if you know it, because for whatever reason, recruiters like it and they look for it. Or like people, they like seeing that on your resume, so it might be something to put on your resume. Ray asks, how do you like your new job as an analytic manager? How do you know if you're not a people manager? That's a really good question. So first question is, do you like your new job? Yes, I really like it. It's very challenging in a lot of different ways. I'm managing people, so I have four people on my team, two analysts, two developers. And I really like connecting with them and getting to know them and helping build their careers. I look at my job as a big part of my job is to push our team forward in a futuristic direction that's gonna help the company long term. The other big part of what I see myself as a manager is somebody who's building up employees who's helping promote them, help them reach their goals. And I talk about that, especially during this last month where it was like end of year performance. I was like, where do you wanna be? Like what's your goal? I wanna help you get there. And so I love that. I really just love that I have that opportunity to do that. So I really would like it. The other part was how do you know if you're not a people manager? That's a super tough question. I think you just, I think you know, I just think you know. I don't know, I don't have an answer for you. How should you talk about projects? How should I talk about projects I adapted from you? On D1R, I don't know how to say that, I'm sorry. How do you talk about it? Walk through the project, learn how to do it. And then when you get into an interview, somebody's like, hey, have you ever used SQL on a job? And you're like, no, I haven't. But I actually just completed this project. It was an end to end data exploration project. I was using things like joins, Windows functions and all these things. And you can even send it to them and have them look at it. You can say, you know, I have it on my portfolio projects. If you wanna check that out. I'm a very proficient in SQL. I definitely have, I'm confident that I'll be able to do what you need. You can talk about it in that way. And you can even talk about the data, how you, where you got it from. How you, if you cleaned it up because we did a data cleaning portfolio project as well. You can talk about those things and walk them through those processes. And, you know, that is definitely helpful. Oh, geez, I just skipped a bunch by accident. I'm trying to see if I can find it in the beginning. Diego asked, what's a safer route to data analysts or product designer? No idea. I don't know. I don't know. I have zero knowledge of what product designer is as a job. Let me see. I'm almost caught up. This is fantastic. The next question is what technical skills can be carried forward from data analysts to DevOps career? I'm not in DevOps. I work with DevOps, but I don't really know their skill sets. I really don't. I know that they often will use, you know, some type of, you know, they can be using something like Git or GitHub, which is something that I've used as a data analyst. You might be using that. The Cipher asks, how are you, Alex? I'm doing fantastic. I really am. I just, I'm extremely blessed to be here. I don't know why there's, you know, people still watching at this point because the past like hours has just been nonsense. But I appreciate that you guys are here. So I'm elated. Can you please talk about Patreon? Yeah. If you don't know, I have a Patreon page. If you want to support me, you can. I'm not pushing that by any means. My highest tier on my Patreon is actually my mentorship. It is full, you won't be able to sign up for it. But that's where you can, you know, you can give me like high bucks or you can go on there and look at the mentorship thing and see what I do with you guys on that. But again, I'm not pushing you guys. You guys don't have to do that if you don't want to. Somebody who just joined Malco, he said, just rewind the stream. You actually shaved live, LOL. Yes, if you watched my 100K stream, I actually had to grow in a big mustache. Then I was twisting at the end and I shaved the mustache and then I just had my regular beard and mustache again. This time was kind of the inverse of that. I just shaved this part and I kept the mustache. I'm gonna grow this out for a little bit. So I'll grow this out, we'll see how it looks. And this will be in videos. You'll see this, some of you guys who are out there who are watching are gonna be like, hey, I remember, I know why he shaved. And I'll probably mention that in the video as well. I'm making a switch to data analyst, IT is the future. Yeah, IT is huge. I didn't know a lot about IT before I got into my position. The more I look into it, I mean, IT is just, it's crazy. I'm in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, IT. We work with all those things. And so, yeah, just wild. Gabriel just said, just wanted to say thanks for everything you've done with this channel. Just finished your COVID exploration, COVID exploration project last week, very cool. Keep going, there's some good projects in there. You can make a portfolio out of it, make your own projects, all that good stuff. Glad you like it though. Kevin Doran says, you got me a job as a healthcare data analyst. Boom, so I wanna thank you for that. You're the man. Great job, great work. I didn't do anything. I helped you a little bit, 99% you, guarantee it. Will you be making videos on Power BI soon? Very good question. I've done SQL, I've done kind of an intro beginner or Power BI, which I may do a more advanced one later. I'm going through Excel right now, which I have, I've already created several videos for that. Yes, I'm gonna be doing Python next, I believe. Python is in the works. Like I think after Excel I'm gonna do my Python series, which should be really fun, but I will absolutely 100% be doing Power BI in the future. Absolutely 100%. How difficult is it to fully understand data analytics in full, I'm just getting it now, PS, you're amazing. Oh, you have to say that was really nice. How is it to fully get into data, fully understand it? I don't fully understand it. I mean, I've been in it for five years and I understand a good chunk of it. I understand a lot of the fundamentals, a lot of the skills I really understand, but there are some types of analytics that I don't understand, like financial, like if you're a financial analyst, that kind of stuff, I don't really understand it as much. You know, I'm in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. I do some with money. Some of the stuff I work with is money, but I don't understand all the analytics. You know, I don't think anybody does. So, you know, you may never fully understand it. Brendan said, I'm signing off. I read the rest, I'm not gonna read the whole thing, but hey, thank you for joining, really, really appreciate it. Data analysts for data scientists, are they the same thing, but one more technical than the other? No, not really, although you can kind of look at it like that. For some people, data analysis is like the end of the road. That's what they want to become. That's what they learn. And it's more analyzing the data that you currently have to impact now. So, like, I create a dashboard saying, hey, because I'm an IT, let's say, and I say, hey, we had this many incidents and here's how many we were able to resolve. Here's how long it took them to resolve and I create dashboards and that helps the other managers of other teams say, here's how we're currently doing. Machine learning doesn't typically do that. Machine learning that data scientists typically use, that's kind of like one of the main skills that differentiates. Machine learning is kind of, you can use it for a lot of different things. It depends on what you're using it for, but you can do a lot of prediction, a lot of forecasting in the future. Kenji knows all about that stuff. Go check out his channel, huge plug for him. His content is different from mine, so I don't mind plugging him. If somebody does the same content as me, they're dead to me, all right? If you have data analyst channel, you're going down. Watch it back. No, that's not true. Love other data analyst channels. I'm just doing more. I got the hat on, I got the look of my mustache going, so my wife is laughing. Do you like atomic habits? Is it a book? Oh, my dad just gave us that book. I haven't read it. I don't read books. I just live life. I learn from the streets. I'm not book smart. I learn from the streets. I look like a Frenchman, yeah. I hear data analysis stepping stone to data scientist. It can be, it can be. Some people go straight to data scientists. Some people rarely go from data scientists to data analysts because they realize that's not actually what they wanted to do. They wanted to do data analysis. Data analysts can be a good stepping stone, though. It definitely can. But not in every case. Like for me, I did not, I started learning about data science and I was like, oh man, that's not for me. And I'm glad I didn't go because that would not have enjoyed it. Not my skill set, not how my brain works didn't like it. So for all the people who are data scientists out there, good for you. That's not my thing. I like data analytics. I like analyzing the data I have now. And I find it just, that my brain actually really does work that way. I look like a Frenchman, yeah, I already read that. Okay, okay, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Now, see now I'm reading these in an accent.  I actually made a video on this but I only released it to my Patreon subscribers way back. It was, how do I manage my time? How do I like do everything that I do? If you don't know, I have three kids. Nine year old, almost three year old, almost two year old. And then I'm a full-time job. I have this YouTube channel. I do mentoring. I have like basically a side business. This is kind of like almost like a side business, right? So how do I manage all those things? I think it really is about minimizing the things that aren't going to help you in the long run. So something that I stopped doing as much of was sitting there and only watching Netflix. That was something for me that I spent a ton of time doing. I love watching movies, love watching shows. Now, if I'm watching it, I watch it in the background. I don't usually, unless I have a, I feel like I've gotten way ahead, I don't usually just sit and watch TV anymore. Except with my wife for like an hour at night, right after the kids go to sleep before I start working. But I had to minimize a lot of like the distractions, the gaming, the stuff so that I could really focus and make sure I was doing what I needed to do. And I also, write down, I use a one note, that just works for me, of what I need to accomplish on certain days. Cause I now have, I have sponsors now that I need to, I sign a contract saying I am going to complete this video or not. The videos are all mine. I just am plugging them at the beginning like of course Sarah or you to me, I'm saying, hey, you know, I'll throw you out at the beginning. No, no problem. But I have, I have to do that. And if I miss it, then I, you know, I lose out on a little bit of money that they pay me. And so, you know, I kind of have to discipline myself and force myself to do those things. Otherwise I'll fall behind and I miss commitments and I miss opportunities that I wouldn't have otherwise. And you need to look at the same way. I now have a lot on my plate. So I have a lot of opportunities, but you have a lot of opportunities as well. So if you just sit there and watch Netflix all the time and you game all the time and you're not focusing, you're missing opportunities by not bettering yourself now. That's how I looked at it when I was first starting out. I was like, listen, I can't be gaming every night. I can't. I was like, otherwise I'm not going to learn the skills fast enough. I'm not going to be hungry to apply for jobs. I'm not going to be hungry to chase down recruiters and get my first job. I'm just, it's not going to happen. And so you kind of, it's just a different mindset. I have a completely different mindset than I had five years ago. Completely different. I see things as opportunities, even when they're not already there. Like a future job is an opportunity. I know I need to learn certain things to reach that, to even have the opportunity. So that's just one thing. Let me click around. Tableau vs. Click vs. Power BI, all great, all different uses. And I've used all three, which is best, totally depends on your situation. I could go way into that, but I probably won't just make a video about it later. I've kind of talked about it in the past though. I texted you or I messaged you on Instagram, please respond. All right, I'll take a look. I get a lot of messages on Instagram, but I try to filter through them when I can. It's like LinkedIn. You guys would not believe how many messages I get on LinkedIn every day. You guys would not believe. It's probably like 50 plus every single day. Weekends, I don't get time off. I think, you know, it's one thing that, you know, another thing about managing my time, about like time management is I have to factor in that I need to respond to comments on YouTube, messages on Instagram, message on LinkedIn, emails and messages on like Patreon. I, that is, that could take an hour a day. And sometimes it does. And I almost get to all of them every day. It's just, I know it's part of my, it's like part of my routine, part of my schedule, but man, I got, I got a lot of stuff. I'm just rambling, rambling. I'm gonna finish up in five minutes. I'm gonna finish up in five minutes. My wife needs to get some rest and I'm in my office right next to our bedroom, talking with you guys. And so she can't sleep while I'm doing that. You sound like you're trying out for newsies. I would love if this could be, if someone could record this and send this to there, like as an audition tape, and I got something, I will literally give you like 50% of the revenue. Straight up. Just tag me in the email, or CC me in the email if I get the gig and I make like a million dollars, you will get half of it. I promise you that it's on live stream and it's recorded, you will get the proceeds. Do you have a community where you can get involved in projects with you? Tolulope? Not really. I do my projects all myself. So when I create them from scratch, I do it all. I do have a community though, you can get on my Discord. There's like 1,000, like 1,500 people on there. And I check it out every so often I don't get on there as much anymore because it's kind of now it's kind of its own thing.  Do people do that hashtag Alex Freeberg? Or I don't, I don't know. I see people who when they complete stuff or they get a job or something, they'll at me in their thing, which I always love to see. I always, I like to see when people accomplish things or they're like, hey, you know, Alex told me to do this and I did it, now it helped me get a job or whatever, I love seeing that stuff. So keep tagging me on that stuff. He said, I joined late, sorry, love the lighting effects. Thank you. You guys may not believe this, but what's this called? Photography is not my first love. I was forced to learn it for this channel. I have a lamp right here. I have an actual light over here. And this I saw in like a YouTube, like how to set up a basic background for a YouTube channel from like Think Media or something like that, which if you've ever tried to set up a YouTube channel, go check them out, they got good stuff. But this is my office and so I have the ability to kind of set this up how I wanted and I had this like vision for how I wanted. I eventually wanna get some like wall art, maybe a little something I'm like behind me. But it took me a long time to even get this half decent. So I'm trying and I appreciate you saying that. I really am trying. Thoughts on the Google IT automation with Python professional certificate. I've seen it, but I haven't looked at it at all. EA says, hey Alex, thanks for your videos. Thank you for watching. Someone said, yeah, he said I joined late, sorry, the lighting effect. If you joined late, man, you missed a lot, you missed a lot of just random stuff. I'm catching up, I'm almost at the bottom. So now once I catch up, once I catch up in like two minutes, it's over. Do you think the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certificate will help in getting a data analyst shot? I actually, I'm gonna make a video on that soon. I've talked about it in my certifications video, but there is a new Tableau Data Analyst Certification. Actually I have it pulled up right here. Yeah, Tableau Certified Data Analyst. It's in beta right now, but it will be going live, you can get in on it. I do recommend it, I've looked into it. I like it, Tableau is just huge, and if you get the actual certification, that actually does hold a little bit of weight versus certification of some form like Udemy, where it's more, Udemy is a learning platform, in my opinion, it's not a certification platform.  But Tableau certifications kind of mean something. And so if you have that, it actually can help. So I do recommend it. Do I still live in the DFW area? No, I just moved to South Carolina.  And I was like, I literally just left. I was like, yeah, that happens, that happens, but what can you do? What can you do? I'm moving there this year. Yeah, Steven, he said he's moving there this year. I just left, I just left. We could have been best friends, not anymore. Not anymore, Steven. All right, I'm gonna answer the last couple of questions that I see and then I'm calling it a night. I'm calling it a night. Can you please make some suggestions on how to get an entry-level job on a data analyst from a non-U.S. country? Yeah, I have talked to a lot of people about this recently because I get a lot of people from like India, like Bangalore is a lot of really popular area that people mess with me from. I always recommend trying and just so you know on my team I have multiple contractors who are in different countries, either India or Lithuania or Europe or Canada, U.S., like that's where we get a lot of our contractors. I would recommend trying to get into a contracting company. If you can get the skills and get a job or like become a contractor, that is a big in to get a job in the U.S., huge, huge in to get a job in the U.S. Can you please suggest the best free data visualization tool which can be connected to SQL database directly? A free visualization tool. I mean, you can use the free version of a lot of these tools, but they won't, most of them, the free versions don't connect to the SQL database. You have to like pay for it. I don't know. I'd really have to think about that when I can't give one up my head. Thanks for offering your time to us. It's much appreciated. You're awesome. Jeremy, you are fantastic. You are awesome. Honestly, I don't, there's still people sticking around from the very beginning and you guys are the real MVPs because if I was watching me right now, when he started, when that guy started singing, how'd it been going? All right. Two out of 10. Not good, not bad, but mostly bad. Are you doing live again? Yeah, I'll do more lives and it's just sporadic. Like it's when I have time and I don't often have time, and again, I don't really have time tonight, but I'm making the time for you guys. I have other things I got to do, but I like spending time with you. I like doing this and I really appreciate you. So I wanted to make this happen. So yes, I will definitely be doing live. And I have caught up with all of the questions and all the comments. I know I missed a few in there. I think I actually skipped like a chunk at one point, but listen, I'm signing off. I really do appreciate you guys. I mean, 150,000, like just genuinely think about how many people that is. It blows my mind. It blows my mind. My wife is telling me to stop doing that. It blows, it genuinely blows my mind that that many people have watched the channel. It's hard for me to really comprehend how many people that is. It really is, and it means a lot. And from the bottom of my heart, I'm just appreciative of you guys and the fact that you guys actually like the stuff that I put out. I've been doing this for two years as of two days ago. I got a notification that two days ago was two years since I started the channel. And it's just blown me away how many people I've met and how many people have genuinely learned from the channel. It helped get jobs and have messaged me saying, like Alex, I didn't know what I was doing. I found your channel. I had a plan and I got a job. And it genuinely, whenever I get one of those messages, it just makes me extremely happy. And that's why I do it. I do it for you guys. And when I win, everyone who's in here, I hope at some point, if you don't have a job as a data analyst, you can send me that message. That makes me so incredibly happy. And there are people who I feel like I know through the comments who've been commenting on my stuff for like over a year and then they messaged me and they'll email me. And they're like, I got a job. And I'm like, holy, and they're like, this is my name on YouTube. And they're like, I did it.  And I genuinely feel like I know a lot of you guys. I really, really, really do. And to me it's just this amazing, beautiful community that we've built and it's just gonna grow. And I'll be doing another one of these at 200 and then at 250 and then 500 and a million. I just believe it's gonna continue to grow because you guys keep growing the channel. I don't feel like I'm doing the hard work. I feel like you guys are out there like putting it on LinkedIn and sharing it and using it to help you guys get jobs. And when you guys get jobs, that's the real success of all of this. And so with all that being said, I'm just rambling about my appreciation for you guys because I really do feel that way. But for all of you guys who joined during this livestream specifically, you guys are awesome. I feel like it's just hanging out with some friends because this is 60, 70, 80 people at a time. You know, we're just chilling. And it was kind of a wild livestream. If you didn't see it earlier, I turned the beard. I played some songs and so it was a good time. It was a good time. If you missed it, rewind it or watch it back tomorrow when it's live, when you can watch through it. It's just a good time, just a good time. So with that being said, is there anything else I need to mention? Anything else I should say? Cool, cool. All right guys, I love you. I hope and wish the best for you. Keep working hard, keep doing the projects, put in the time, put in the efforts. Make 2022 a year for you. Don't waste it, all right? You can genuinely make this a year where you reach your goals and you put aside the distractions that and everybody has them. Everybody has distractions. And this is a little motivation at the end of this. All right guys, put away the distractions genuinely. If you're spending too much time doing something, minimize it, don't get rid of it, just minimize it. Still do it, just minimize it and focus your attention on things that are gonna help you long term. That is my huge advice. That is what has gotten me really far. And somebody asked that earlier. Someone's got something that's gotten me really far. And I hope that you can take that little nugget and use it this year and just continue to grow your career, grow as a person and grow the skills. And just, there you go, there you go. All right guys, I will see you in the next video. I want to do the next live stream, we'll see. But I'm about to click the end stream button. It's a sad time, it's coming to an end. I enjoyed it immensely. Great questions, great conversation. I appreciate all of you guys. Have a good night, morning, afternoon. It's 8.30 at night at my time, so have a good night. Bye, everybody. All right. Oh, it's almost, sorry guys. It's almost 10 o'clock. Anyways, goodbye. All right.


Hello, everybody. Andrea here with Dental L. So let's talk about how you can ease your patient's fears around COVID and protocols and the dental office, all of that.  You just don't know. So please keep in mind, even if a patient doesn't appear nervous to you, they're not asking a lot of questions, they might still be nervous about coming to see you. You just never know. So I want to explain how you can really ease your patient's fears in regards to our new COVID world right now. You know, it's really true and how the dental office is changing. And I challenge you to think of yourself at the same time. I say that because I, you know, I prefer to stay home. I don't really like to go out either, but mainly because I want to keep myself safe, but also my patients safe as well, since I'm still working. But I find it very annoying with certain things. Like for example, when I take my dog to the vet, I can't go in there because they don't allow us to go in with our dog. They just simply take the dog and we have to trust they're giving them the right needles. They're treating them well, you know, all kinds of things. So your patients are probably concerned about the same thing. So your patient, let's say a parent, your patient's child has a dental appointment. Well, let them know before their appointment that they cannot come in with their child if that's your office protocols, because the worst thing you can do is not explain the COVID protocols and then start to explain them when your patient arrives. That's the worst thing possible. So do the best you can to inform them. That's really number one. Inform your patients of your new COVID protocols, whether it be by social media, have several posts, not just one post, but I suggest perhaps a post a week. Send out an email if you have an email list, have signs outside the office door, you know, things like that to be informed is the best thing possible. Another quick example, I had a car maintenance appointment of mine. They didn't send out emails, nothing about their COVID protocols. I assumed it was the same as the last time I had my car serviced, which was just a few months ago where I would, you know, we have to wear masks. We can only go in at our allotted time, but we still had access to the waiting room, only certain amount of people were allowed in, you know, I could go on. But the morning of my appointment, they basically sent me a text message and said, please text us when you arrive, you cannot stay, you have to leave basically. And I always stay for my car maintenance appointments. So I kind of called them back and said, okay, A, I wasn't aware of this, I don't have transportation, I'm not going to hang around in the freezing cold in the middle of nowhere for two hours. That's how long the appointment would have taken. So I said to them, I'm canceling my appointment because I wasn't aware of this. If they had just made me aware, I could have made, you know, other transportation methods, right? I could have asked somebody to pick me up. But that's what I mean. I was very, very frustrated and very upset when I didn't have to be. So think of your patients. Let them know before they arrive what will be happening, such as when you arrive, text us, somebody will come out to take your temperature. You will then not be allowed to wait in the waiting room, you have to wait outside, you know, whatever your policies are, let them know either by phone call, social media, however you want to do it. What I do is I have posts on social media. If I'm talking to a new patient, I might say to them, have you seen our COVID protocols on social media? Yes or no? If you have not, here is the link to my website where I list them all right there for you. Please let me know if there's any questions. And this way too, I don't have to constantly text the same person about my COVID protocols. I don't have to talk to the same person about my COVID protocols. I do still talk to them about it, but it's just kind of easier to send them to a website. So I don't forget anything. But that's mainly just for those people who might cancel their appointment.  Okay, this is just weird, you know, now I'm a mobile hygienist, so things are very different. I don't have the same protocols that you guys have. For example, when I go into somebody's home, well, they can be with their child, no problem, because it's their own home. So no big deal. But going to a dental office, you might have those policies where they can't. So does that make sense, you guys? I realize if you work for a dental office, you might not have control over social media, their website, all of that. But then be prepared for your patient to come in and ask questions. So at the very least, when you bring your patient in before you start anything, say, hi, Mr. Smith, it's so nice to meet you or it's so nice to see you again. Do you have any questions in regards to our COVID protocols? I explain things as I go along, but please don't hesitate to ask me any questions. So does that make sense, you guys? I hope that helps. Please let me know. Comment below if I can help in any other way. And good luck seeing your patients and stay safe out there.