I just Turned 30 - What I've learned + Advice for You - video Dailymotion

Alex The Analyst

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00:00All right. There we go. I just turned 30 and I know what a lot of you are thinking, Alex,

00:06you've looked 35 for the past five years and you're not wrong, but I just turned 30 and I'm

00:12doing a lot of reminiscing, a lot of looking back at my life and my career as I hit this

00:17big

00:18milestone in my age. And I just wanted to share some of that with you today. I definitely learned

00:23a lot of things, especially after I got out of college. I feel like just everything went warp

00:28speed and now I'm here and it feels pretty wild. And I'm going to cover a few different

00:32topics, including money, relationships, family, health, and career, and maybe a few other things

00:38along the way. But I'm not going to make this the longest video in the world. I'm hoping to

00:42keep this somewhat condensed, but who knows? Sometimes I just get to talking. The first

00:46one I'm going to start with is family and kind of relationships in general. But about eight

00:51years ago, I got married and I have three kids and now I am 30 with three kids. And that

00:57feels

00:57wild to say because I feel like I just got out of college. And so my life has kind of

01:02progressed pretty quickly in this area. And I would say that family to me has been one

01:07of the most important things that has happened in my life. I still put most of my focus and

01:12emphasis on my family. They are the most important thing in my life. They brought me more joy and

01:17happiness than literally all the other things I'm going to talk about combined. And so I put

01:22a really big emphasis on family. Right now that family is my family that I have built, but I also

01:28have extended family. I have my parents and my brother and my sister, and I have other relationships

01:32outside of that with my friends and my friend group. And those are also really important. But when it

01:36comes down to it at the end of the day, the most important thing is my family that I have

01:41built,

01:41taking care of them, spending time with them, making memories as the kids grow. That has brought me

01:46more joy than just about anything in the world. My advice to you, and I'm going to be giving advice

01:50after kind of each section that I have, my advice to you is make this a priority, make family and

01:56relationships a priority. I feel like in today's day and age, a lot of people don't prioritize this

02:01as much as they should. It's more about me and money and what I can get out of my career

02:05and,

02:05you know, relationships and getting married and all that stuff is kind of put on the back burner.

02:09But I think that isn't really a great way to live. I think as a society that really needs to

02:14change

02:14because I think relationships and getting married and having children are the most important things that

02:19somebody can do. Next, let's talk about money. Now, money is a relatively new thing to me because

02:23I've always been pretty poor, especially when I first started my career outside of college.

02:29I had like $1,000 to my name. That's when my wife actually married me. I was very, very poor.

02:35I didn't

02:35have a job even when we got married. I was maybe making $10 an hour, working about 20 hours a

02:41week at

02:41this rehabilitation center that I was working at. But besides that, I was not making much money. And so as

02:47I

02:47have progressed with money throughout my career, going from, you know, making $36,000 all the way up to $125

02:52,000,

02:53all the way up to about $200,000, my views on money have definitely changed. Money is extremely important

02:59and you have to be very smart about it. And when I was younger and I didn't have any, it

03:02wasn't that big of a deal.

03:04I just didn't spend much money, but it is really important. And as you make more of it, you have

03:09more

03:10responsibilities with that money. I think one of the best things that I ever did was not going into debt.

03:14I had no student loan debt. I had no debt for personal loans or credit cards or anything. I had

03:21no debt, but I just didn't have any money. And that was kind of the problem. But that was one

03:25of the

03:25best decisions looking back that I ever did. I just didn't get into debt. The other thing I've done

03:30ever since I kind of worked at Amerisource Bergen around 2020, at least for the last five years,

03:34is I've started investing. Even when I wasn't making that much, you know, it was maybe it was $100 per

03:39month.

03:40My company did a 100% match on any 401k contributions. And I took advantage of it,

03:45even if it wasn't a lot of money, it was still something. And it got me in the mindset and

03:49the

03:49habit of investing. And now that I make more money, I'm able to put more money into investments.

03:54And I know in the future, I'm really going to be thanking myself for doing this now,

03:57instead of waiting until I'm 40 or 50 to start doing.

04:00My biggest piece of advice as it comes to money is most of the money that you're going to make

04:04is determined by your career. The next biggest thing, which is going to determine how much money you have

04:08is how you spend it. What are your spending habits like? Do you have a budget? Are you actually

04:13putting money aside? If you can't put money aside, are you at least living within your means so you're

04:17not going into debt? If you are, try to pay off that debt as quickly as possible. Try to get

04:23into

04:23some field where you can at least pay for your expenses. Once you're able to do that, then you

04:27can start investing and you can start making money for the future. The next area is health and habits.

04:32And over the past, I would say, especially eight years, health and habits have really changed

04:37dramatically for me because when I was in college and I had a lot of free time, I worked out

04:42a lot

04:43and I studied a lot. I had fairly good habits, but then you get married, you start having kids

04:48and you have a career and things fall by the wayside. When my two youngest were born and COVID hit

04:54and we

04:54were at home and the kids were always crying and I was trying to work remotely, I didn't eat the

04:59best

04:59and I didn't work out that much. And it was very, very tough. But even at the ripe old age

05:04of 30,

05:04I have already had some medical stuff, right? I started getting a lot of pain in both of my

05:10wrists. I realized I had carpal tunnel and the doctors were like, well, you know, you can take

05:14this medicine, you can get these shots and these injections. And I did, I got one injection in my

05:18right hand because the pain was so bad. I couldn't even write or type. It was really bad. And I

05:24started

05:24realizing that my body's very reactive to food and it is very reactive to whether I work out or not.

05:30And so especially about four years ago, I started getting really serious about eating better,

05:35about taking care of my body. And I stopped eating a lot of processed foods. And so I really stopped

05:40eating out for almost six months and my carpal tunnel just felt way better. And now even today,

05:45I have almost no pain. It had a lot to do with what I was eating. I was eating a

05:50lot of processed foods,

05:51a lot of bad oils, a lot of things that just shouldn't be going to my body. And so my

05:55wife and I make a

05:56really concerted effort to eat a lot cleaner. We have our protein, which is usually like a chicken.

06:00We eat a lot of veggies and we eat a lot of fruit at our house. It has really changed

06:04my life for the

06:05better. And of course I work out just in my office. I have some dumbbells and I do pushups and

06:09I do,

06:10you know, bicep curls and I do squats and different stuff throughout the day as I can do it. I'm

06:16very

06:16fortunate that I work at home and I'm able to do that. I really kind of emphasize and put a

06:20priority

06:21on that so that I stay healthy and I don't have those medical conditions continue to pop up

06:26and make my life a lot more difficult. My biggest advice on this is make good daily decisions. So

06:32on a whole, you can make bad decisions. I still eat bad things. I don't work out, but my daily

06:39habits

06:39are good. So when I go out with my wife or when we go on a trip and I want

06:43to eat really unhealthy,

06:44I can and I don't really feel guilty about it because my daily habits are very good. Make your health

06:49a priority because I promise you when you hit 30 like me and you start feeling it, your 40s and

06:5650s

06:56and 60s are not going to feel better. And so make your health a priority. The last topic I want

07:00to

07:00talk about is career. And looking back at my career, it's been very wild and unorthodox and it's not

07:07very normal. I started out working in a behavioral health hospital as a recreational therapist. That's

07:12what my degree's in. And then I somehow got into data. I started working in a nonprofit as a data

07:17collection specialist and analyst. Became a data analyst at a small healthcare analytics company.

07:22Then I went to Amerisource Bergen, now called Syncora, I believe, because they changed their

07:26name after a merger. I became a data analyst and then a manager of data analytics. And then I quit

07:31my job to start consulting full-time. And then I started a platform called Analyst Builder. And then

07:36I did YouTube full-time. And so I've done a lot of things in the past eight years since I've

07:41been out of

07:41college. But even looking back, you know, I've always had different little jobs here and there

07:46throughout high school and throughout college. And then now, honestly, when I first got married

07:49to my wife, Christine, my career was not important to me at all. Like I just wanted to help people.

07:55I didn't really care how much money I made because I was just caring for me. And I'm very low

08:00maintenance.

08:00Like you can ask my wife, I'm extremely low maintenance. And so living off two grand a month,

08:06that was enough for me. Like I didn't need more than that. My expenses were a thousand dollars

08:11per month when she first met me. That's kind of where I'm coming from. And so as I've progressed

08:17throughout my life, I realized that having a career, having steady employment, being able to

08:22make certain decisions or working at certain companies has really helped my life. And so I

08:28learned, especially as I started having kids, that my career is really important. I have to provide.

08:32I have someone who is literally counting on me to survive. And so I have to put in the work

08:37and I have

08:37to put in the time to kind of advance my career. And so I started putting all of my extra

08:41time at

08:42the end of the day, once I got back from my low paying job into advancing my skills. I was

08:46learning

08:47SQL and Excel and Tableau and all these different tools. And as I've gone on, I've learned a lot of

08:52other things as well, but those helped me advance in my career. And having that experience has

08:56transformed my life completely. I was able to start this YouTube channel about five and a half years ago

09:01now, almost six years ago. And so it's transformed my life completely. And so my advice in this area

09:08is your career is important, whether it's important now or it's important later, it is going to be

09:13important. And so you should put time and effort into it. I highly recommend, I talked to a lot of

09:19people about this. I highly recommend putting your phone away, getting off Netflix and Amazon Prime

09:24and other distractions that are fun to do every so often, right? They're fun to do once or twice a

09:30week

09:30and watch your favorite show or watch a movie. But it shouldn't be your daily habit. Your daily

09:35habit should be improving your career and improving your life so that you can have the family and have

09:40the money and find things that bring you joy. In the end, my career is not my identity. I much

09:46prefer being called a husband and a father. And that is what I find a lot of identity in. And

09:51I think a

09:52lot of people try to put all their identity in their career. But I think at the end of your

09:56life,

09:56you're not going to look back and be like, man, I'm so glad I spent all my time at

10:00the office. I think for most people, they wish they'd spent more time with family. And so the

10:05career is important. Money is important, but make sure you're doing it in the right way.

10:09I have a ton of other things that I wrote down. I just didn't want this to be like a

10:1320 minute

10:13video talking and reminiscing about my life and giving advice. I try to keep it as condensed as

10:19possible because if you know me, I could just ramble on forever, but I'm getting older. I don't have

10:25time to waste. I can't talk for 20 minutes anymore. I got to get to the point these days. So

10:29thank you

10:30guys for so much support over all these years on YouTube. I have no plans of slowing down. I have

10:35so many videos planned for Databricks and Alteryx and all these different tools that I'm going to

10:40bring to you, as well as a short series that I'll be doing about, you know, soft skills in analytics

10:45and in tech. I hope in some way that this was helpful to you. It spoke to you on a

10:49personal level.

10:49If it did, let me know in the comments. I would love to hear it. And of course, I will

10:54read almost all

10:55of the comments that you guys post as I normally do. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you

10:59like this video, be sure to like and subscribe below. I'll see you in the next one.

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