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Getting promoted as a data analyst takes more than doing your job well, and Alex breaks down exactly how he moved from entry-level work to manager in a few short years. He shares the real career decisions behind his rapid progress, including learning SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, Databricks, Power BI, and building strong domain knowledge in healthcare analytics. Along the way, he explains why relationships, taking on difficult projects, and becoming the person people rely on mattered just as much as technical skill.

This long-form career advice episode follows his path through nonprofit data work, healthcare analytics, a Fortune 10 company, and eventually a management role in operational analytics. He also talks honestly about turning down one promotion path, why a higher title is not always the best next step, and how company stability, pay, and future growth all factor into the decision. If you are a data analyst looking for promotion tips, interview insight, or practical advice on advancing in tech, this conversation is packed with useful takeaways.

Created for anyone searching for data analyst promotion tips, career growth advice, analytics leadership, and how to move from junior analyst to manager. It is also a strong listen for people interested in SQL for data analysts, Azure analytics, Power BI career paths, and real-world tech career progression.
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00:00Hello, everybody. I am your host, Alex Freeberg, and this is the Alex the Analyst Show. Today,
00:03we are going to be talking about how to get promoted as a data analyst. And there's a lot
00:08that goes into this. And there's actually a lot of different things that I want to talk about
00:13that maybe you haven't thought of before. But once you become a data analyst, I hope that you want
00:18to get promoted, right? That was one of my biggest things that I kind of got into tech for. I
00:23was
00:23like, I'll get promotions and I can become a mid-level and a senior level and a manager and
00:27all these different things. There's actually a lot more that goes into it. And so I'm going to
00:32kind of talk through how I was promoted, how I got these different promotions, as well as my kind of
00:37progress through my career. I give a lot of really tangible advice on, you know, exactly what I think
00:44you should do as well once you get an entry-level job. Now, let me pull up my notes real
00:47quick. I
00:48don't know why I didn't have them pulled up. Let me go over here. Here we go. Now, I want
00:55to start
00:55out, I don't know why I said it like that. I'm going to start off by talking about just promotions
01:01in general in my career. My career has been what I would say is abnormal. And most people who look
01:08at my career would also say that. Even if you go on my LinkedIn, like you can see the progress,
01:14the progress was really, really fast. Most analysts, that's not going to be the case. And I want to kind
01:20of give some, I want to say that up front because I don't want to give you this like false
01:24impression
01:25that everyone should be able to do what I did because I just got, there were times where I got
01:29lucky. There were times where I just positioned myself well. And again, I think luck was part of
01:34it. And so you're not always going to get super lucky or be in that type of company or be
01:38in that
01:38position. But, you know, I definitely think wherever you're at, you're able to make progress and kind of
01:45climb that ladder, make more money, get better job opportunities, get better job offers. And all these
01:51things are really, really important for the longevity of your career. And so I'm really excited about this
01:55topic. I love talking about, you know, advancing your career and just getting better at what you do
02:01and helping people, you know, do better. And I think that's where that's where I can shed a lot of
02:09light on. So we'll see how this conversation goes. If you haven't watched these before, this is my long
02:14form content. I don't know how long it's going to be. It could be 20 minutes, could be an hour
02:17and a half.
02:17I, who knows how long I'll talk, but it should be really fun. So I'm going to start off by
02:24talking
02:25about my career path, how I got kind of, I'll say my career path. Then I'll talk about how I
02:31made those
02:32jumps, the things that I did to get promotions. And then throughout, I'll give lots of hopefully
02:37really tangible advice because a lot of people will go in and they're just like, well, if I do my
02:42job,
02:42I do my job, well, I'm going to get a promotion. And that may be true at some companies, but
02:49that's
02:50not necessarily true at all companies or most companies, I would say. I think there's a lot
02:53more that goes into it. So I started off as an entry-level data analyst. I actually, actually was
03:00a data collection specialist and analyst at a nonprofit. Then I became an entry or I became a
03:08data analyst. This is actually really interesting. I became a data analyst at a healthcare analytics
03:11company. Then I took a demotion, but a pay increase at a fortune 10 company. It was, it was called
03:17Amerisource Bergen out like Contazo or they changed their name, but like a global company. I don't know
03:22why they did that. But Amerisource Bergen is what it used to be called. And I was an, I wasn't
03:32an entry
03:32level. I was a, Oh, what's it called? I'm blanking on it. A junior, junior data analyst.
03:42I think that's what it's called. I'm blanking on it. I apologize. Um, but I was a junior data analyst.
03:46So I took a, a, uh, I took a title decrease, but I took a pay increase. And so I
03:56got, I went up to
03:5778,000 in that job, which was like insane money for me. Cause I'd been making 47,000 before that
04:0263.
04:03Now making like 78. I was like, this is incredible. Uh, again, like an entry level role is what it
04:09was
04:09positioned for. Six months after I got that job, they gave me a promotion to a mid-level. I was
04:15making 90, it was 90,000 with a 10% bonus. So I was making like a hundred thousand essentially.
04:23Um,
04:25two years after I got that promotion, I then became a manager of data analytics. So within like five
04:32years, I went from getting my very first job as a data analyst to becoming a manager. I was,
04:38my title was actually operation, uh, uh, manager of operational analytics. And that was over the
04:43whole IT department. So that's cybersecurity. That's IT operations. That's help desk. That's
04:48a bunch of other things, right? So I'm now like in charge of a team that's doing data analytics
04:54for internal. So like a ton, like a hundred plus internal, uh, people, and then like 10 different
05:00teams. Um, and I'm going to talk about how I got those. I'm going to talk about how I got
05:05to each
05:05position and how I got promotions in each one. And I'm hoping, um, I want to preface all of this
05:11by saying, I'm not trying to give myself a pat on the back here. Um, I, I really am trying
05:16to use
05:16this as like education of here's some of the things that I did. I didn't know it at the time
05:23that it would do so well looking back though. I can now, you know, I've hired people. I've promoted
05:29people. Um, when I was a manager, now I can like look back and I'm like, that's why I got
05:33that
05:33promotion. That's why I did those things. I did it on not intentionally, but I didn't know I'd get
05:39a promotion from it. And so I want you to like, think about this and be like, okay, here's how
05:43he did it in my job. If I do these things, I'll have a much better chance of getting a
05:48promotion
05:49or getting a different job. That's going to be a promotion. And so you can then do these things
05:55intentionally and say, if I do these steps, I do these things, I will set myself apart. I can get
06:01these promotions and I want you to get those promotions. I want you to just like really
06:05thrive in your career. So all that context, I just, I don't want you to think I'm praising myself
06:10because trust me, that is not, that's not me. That's not my thing. Um, let me check my,
06:16just was checking my phone because my wife was texting me this morning and I never texted her
06:20saying I went in, I was going into this, uh, recording. And, uh, sometimes I don't text back
06:26like an hour and a half or two hours and something important. Uh, so I I'll try not to text
06:31her if she,
06:31unless it's really important. So, uh, my very first job, data collection specialist and analyst.
06:38Now I knew nothing. And when I say nothing, I mean, they literally hired me because I had been
06:44working inside the nonprofit as a caretaker. Essentially, I got to know everyone really
06:49well and they all really liked me. And then when I applied, I was the only person who applied.
06:53Um, and so, you know, because it wasn't for much pay and, and so I, but it was a raise
07:00for me.
07:01But I did really well just in my normal job and that set me apart. And where they were like,
07:06we really did want you to apply for this job. They asked me to apply. And my wife pushed me
07:10to
07:10apply. They were like, Hey, you should apply for this. All the work was, was Excel. It was this
07:16crazy old lady. She was like, she had been like 85, 90. And he had been there for like 25
07:23years.
07:24The only person who ever touched the data and they, the data was like for grants and stuff.
07:29And so, um, I learned Excel there. Well, at the very end I was learning, uh, I learned that we
07:38had
07:38a SQL database, but I wasn't the one who was using it. It was some like finance department or
07:42something. So I didn't get to touch it, but I learned that SQL was really important. And so I was
07:46like,
07:46Hey, if I want to advance my career, I need to learn better skills than just Excel. I can't get
07:51far in my career just knowing Excel. Maybe I could get another job, but I want to go far in
07:56this.
07:56So I started teaching myself SQL. Started, um, that job went downhill quick. So I was like,
08:02I just wanted to get out of there. I wasn't looking for a huge promotion. I was just looking for
08:05a different job. Um, but the SQL ended up being the skill that I need to know. Um, and it
08:13still is
08:13like the skill today. Highly recommend it. So, you know, I learned SQL. I got a promotion
08:20to an actual data analyst that was mostly for my domain knowledge. So that's something I look back
08:25on and I'm like, if you are out there and you are wanting to get promoted, you want to land
08:32a job,
08:33domain knowledge is actually really important. Um, and I've talked about it on the channel several
08:37times, but I don't talk about like in every video where I talk a lot about skills, hard skills,
08:42you have to know, but applying those hard skills to like domain knowledge and understanding how
08:46things work in a domain. For me, example, healthcare was my thing. That really set me apart
08:52from other candidates and got me that job because I knew healthcare. I knew EHR systems because I'd used
08:58them in hospitals before. Um, I knew the lingo and like the terminology of doctors and nurses
09:04because I had worked with them before and they really, uh, they really, really valued that.
09:09And so throughout my career, I've found that domain knowledge has gotten me a lot of promotions.
09:16Um, and I'll talk about that, um, in a little bit, especially to the manager position that got me
09:22probably the farthest way. Um, but in that position, I got the healthcare data analytics position because
09:29I, I knew SQL, which again was lucky because I just started learning it like two months before.
09:34And then, um, I had that domain knowledge. And so knowing the right skills and being good at them,
09:42um, really, really useful, really important. Now those are just, that's just like the,
09:46that's not really getting promoted. I would say it's just like me transitioning jobs.
09:50I'm going to talk about promotions when I get into that fortune 10 area. Cause I got promoted
09:54one. I got a job that I got promoted. Then I got promoted within three years, all the way up
09:59from
09:59entry-level data analyst to a manager, which just, um, just really funny to me. Uh,
10:07so I worked at that healthcare analytics company for a year. Now they, uh, I really excelled in that job.
10:15I really, really think, I know I did really well in that job. And by the end of it, there
10:23was,
10:23I'm going to talk about the reasons why I left, but there were reasons why I wanted to leave,
10:26but they wanted to keep me on, make me the director of data analytics, which was my boss's job and
10:32promote him to like VP of operations or something like that. That was what they had told me as I
10:39was
10:39leaving. They're like, no, no, no, don't go. Here's our plan for you. And I'll tell you why I didn't
10:43accept that specific promotion in just a little bit, but here's what I did in the job to really
10:49make myself stand out in that position. One is I had been learning my SQL, that job used
10:56Microsoft SQL server. I was not familiar with it. So I went home and every single day for like
11:02months, I mean like four months straight, I was just learning Microsoft SQL server. I was,
11:07I didn't want to be learning it all in the job. I was like, I need to go home and
11:12I need to learn
11:12this. So I was really pushing myself at home. They also use Excel and Tableau. So those three
11:17skills, I was like, I was like, these seem like skills and I kept researching them. I was like,
11:22these skills seem really important to know. I didn't know they were, but I just, they seem
11:25really important. So I really focused on that. So just the technical side, I really pushed myself
11:32hard to learn it. And that job was super hands-on as a really small company. And so I was
11:38one of the
11:38only people really using SQL a lot. And so they really relied on me. And so I had to learn
11:44some
11:44really advanced stuff really quickly. Even looking back at the beginning of my career,
11:49some of that stuff was more advanced than some of the stuff that I was using as like
11:52at the Fortune 10 company. That stuff was really tough. So I had to really push myself and I learned
11:58it very quickly. And so my boss always recognized that. He always was like, hey, you're doing a really
12:05good job. He's like, you're really learning this fast. And I was like, I appreciate that. I'm
12:08working really hard to get up to your level because that's where I needed to be. The next
12:14thing that I did, and this is what I think was the most important. The next thing I did is
12:19I started
12:19building relationships. It was a small company. There was 50 of us at the company, but in the office
12:25in Dallas where I was, there was only like 10 of us. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Yeah,
12:30it was like 10 ish. And so I got to see the CEO every day and I would chat with
12:38him. I went to
12:39lunch with him. Uh, one time we also had a holiday party at his house. So, you know, really building
12:45those relationships, but specifically I built it the strongest with my boss. We would go out to
12:49lunches. I, you know, ask him to go to lunch. Um, we were working together every day. So, you know,
12:55I got to know him as a person and got to like know his life and where he came from.
12:59And, um,
13:00I just really focused on building that relationship because one, I would like, I wanted to do that too.
13:06I definitely saw it as something that would be good for me to do in my job, like getting to
13:12know
13:12people. It makes sense to, to, um, you know, uh, to do the third thing that I did. And again,
13:21I didn't do this on purpose. This one, I didn't do on purpose, but this is something that looking
13:25back, I'm like, okay, I need to, I should do that. And I started doing that in the future on
13:29purpose.
13:30I started taking on projects that people didn't want to take on that were important,
13:34very difficult that people were like, I don't want to spend the time doing that.
13:38I took that on. Cause I was like, one, I just wanted to impress them and like do well in
13:43my job.
13:44But looking back, I'm like, that was really important. There was specific projects I can think of
13:48that were very important to certain clients that we had. There were some of our big clients
13:55and genuinely, I'm like, looking back, I'm like, that was so important because I was,
14:00I got to work on a project that the CEO was asking questions about. I got to have direct
14:05access to the CEO and talk about actual work. Um, I, it was something that was generating revenue for
14:12the, for the, uh, for the company. So this is like a multimillion dollar contract. And I was
14:17the point person in connection with the client. So I was building a relationship with the client as
14:22well. And so throughout that year, cause I worked there for a year, I started doing that like three
14:28months, uh, before I left that project. I mean, it was really important for, for us. And so I was
14:35the lead person on that. So I became, um, I don't want to say invaluable because I wasn't, but I
14:40became
14:40much more important to the company. Like I started being a person that was known by the client
14:47and geez, I didn't fill up my water. When I talk for a long time, I get, uh, I get
14:56a, uh,
14:58dry mouth, excuse me. So those three things really stood out. Um, we're looking back. I'm like,
15:06those three things were the most important things. I learned the skills and just kept at it and kept
15:10at it and kept at it. Like I didn't just like, you know, kind of learn it. I was like
15:14pushing myself
15:14really hard to learn really more advanced stuff. Um, building the relationships and then taking
15:20on projects that were really important or just nobody wanted to take on, um, because they were
15:25really tough, really time consuming, um, not fully in their wheelhouse and, but somebody had to take
15:32it on and it was me. So those three things are going to be patterns that you'll see.
15:40Excuse me. Those are going to be patterns that you'll see throughout this conversation.
15:44Um, those three things are very important. So if you want to stop here, I'm not going to blame you.
15:50I would say just from that alone, you're going to learn 75% of what I'm going to talk about
15:55in this
15:56video. I'm going to save you some time. I'm being honest. Uh, but I have a lot of other anecdotal
16:02stories, um, and good vibes and conversations. So if you want to keep on, you know, stay, stay on,
16:07uh, it's going to be good stuff. So the reason I left that job and this part is, was not
16:15fun.
16:17Um, I really liked working there. I actually really saw myself working there long-term
16:22and the, the reason, the issue that I had was my wife had a job. I had a job, but
16:28now my income
16:29was like half before it was like a third. My wife was making way more than I was, but now
16:32I'm making
16:33more money. And if I lost my job, that'd be a bad thing, right? Well, I become important to the
16:40company, but the company was having cashflow issues. And so I wasn't getting my paychecks
16:45on time. I had to go in. I'd be like, Hey, did you guys get paid yesterday? They're like, no.
16:50And so I go to our HR person who, or our accountant, I can't remember who I went to.
16:56It's like, Hey, I didn't get paid. Is everything okay? They're like, well, we're just,
16:59we didn't get paid from this client yet. And so we can't pay you yet. I'm like,
17:04that's that was like a red flag. I was like, wait a second. That's not good. Um, cause we
17:08should have money in the bank as a reservoir in case clients don't pay on time, which happens
17:14in business. That was kind of a red flag. Well, that happened one time and it happened two times.
17:19Then it happened three times. And after the third time I was talking to my wife and I'm like,
17:24I, it just, if we lose a client or we do that, like our company could go out of business.
17:28I was like, that would be really bad for my family. So I had to make a really tough decision
17:34to start looking for other jobs, even though I didn't want to, I really liked working there.
17:38Well, once my boss went off on a vacation, it just coincided. It was really unfortunate timing,
17:44but he went off on a vacation like two weeks during that two weeks. I had got a job offer
17:48at this
17:49fortune 10 company, um, as an junior data analyst. Well, when he comes back, I told him, I said, Hey,
17:56listen, I was like, while you were gone, I accepted a position at another company. And here's why. And
18:03I told him, I said, it's because of these cashflow issues. Like it's, it is cause for concern. Just
18:08doesn't seem like the company is super stable. It's not your fault. I, you have been the best
18:12mentor, the best boss really appreciate working for you. And he's like, well, listen, it's like,
18:16I hear you. He's like, how much are they paying you? So I told him, I was like, you know,
18:20I think it
18:20was, uh, I think I said 80,000. Maybe I exaggerated a little bit. I was like 80,000 with
18:25like a 10%
18:25bonus. It's like 90,000. He's like, we will pay you. And this is what he said. He's like, we'll
18:30give you a hundred thousand and we'll make you the director of his job. I think it was the director
18:35of operations was the title. Um, and I told him, I'd think about it, but I went home and I
18:41thought
18:42about, I'm just like, if I took that, there's a few, few bad things with that promotion specifically.
18:47One, I don't know if the company is going to be here in a year. That's the problem. That's the
18:51biggest problem to getting promoted that quickly, um, to that level doesn't leave a lot of room to
18:57grow. Right. So then I, okay. I'm the director of analytics or operations or whatever the title is,
19:03but where do I go in two, three, four years? Like you're not going to hire a 24 year old
19:08VP of data
19:09analytics, uh, to a company that's just not going to happen. So I also saw it as like a career
19:14growth
19:14thing. If I'm making 90,000 with my bonus at the large company as a, uh, a junior data analyst,
19:22then I have a ton of room for growth. But if I accept that position, I'm not sure if the
19:27company
19:27is going to be there. And I'm not sure if, um, you know, if that's a good progress for my
19:34career,
19:36excuse me, I am, I am having all the issues with my, uh, my voice right now because I didn't
19:40get
19:40water. That's, that's my fault. But genuinely that was the exact thing that happened. And it,
19:45it was tough because I really liked working there. Um, give me one second. I'm going to cough.
19:53Excuse me. That really is it. Um, and so I got the promotion. Now here's where I think,
20:00and a lot of this is going to be similar stuff, but now I have like, this is more like
20:05my career
20:05really took off. Um, and I started my YouTube channel shortly after getting that job. Um,
20:12so I've been doing YouTube for three and a half years. So it was like six months into the job,
20:16maybe eight months into the job. I started my YouTube channel. So I, you know, this is like
20:20four years ago. I was a big, an entry-level data analyst. Um, I started my job as an entry
20:26-level
20:26data analyst. I was a contract to hire. Now contract to hire means I had a six month contract. If
20:31I did
20:31well, they had the option to hire me on. And they told me upfront, Hey, we really would like to
20:35hire you on if you do a good job. And I was like, okay, great. Um, so I worked my
20:41butt off,
20:43uh, to put it, to put it nicely. I, I worked like I've never worked before and they hadn't,
20:50they used Microsoft SQL server, which was again, part of the reason why I got that job.
20:54Although my healthcare experience was really important because this was, um, uh, a pharmaceutical
20:59company, but the division I was working in was working with doctors, working with nurses,
21:04working with hospitals, um, in their advanced pharmacy solutions for specifically oncology,
21:11uh, which is cancer. And then, um, uh, hematology, which is blood. So those are my two like specialties.
21:19So, or now it is now I really know those things. So when I got in there, I was entry
21:24level,
21:24you know, some tasks in SQL, some small tasks in Excel, and then they use Power BI. That was their
21:30tech stack. Um, and they were just transitioning into Azure, like just migrating some of the data
21:36over to Azure, just putting new data sources in Azure. I had never used Azure, didn't really even
21:41know what it was, if I'm being honest. Um, so here's what I did when I got into that position.
21:45One
21:47is I did everything. I, any, any project that came across the, the, I was like, give me that project.
21:53I was taking on every project. Um, the second thing that I did was, is again, I went home and
22:01I learned Azure. I just opened up an account, their free tier and just learned it. Went in there. I
22:07was
22:07like, I need to know Databricks. I need to know PySpark. I need to know, um, uh, I could use
22:12Python,
22:13even though my job didn't use Python at all. And then I'll get to that in a second. Um, but
22:17I was
22:17teaching myself all these things while learning it on the job so that when I got in there the next
22:21day,
22:21I had an idea of what I was supposed to do instead of just learning it on the job and
22:25going really
22:25slow. So I really progressed again in my skill level really quickly because I was spending all
22:31my time on the job and I was spending all my time, um, at home learning that as well. Uh,
22:38let me check
22:39something, one thing real quick. Okay, perfect. So those are the two things that I was like hyper
22:50focused on is taking on as much work as I could. Cause I wanted to become really invaluable to
22:55them. I wanted them to be like at the six month mark. I wanted them to say, well, if we
22:59let Alex
23:00go, someone's gonna have to pick up all that work. And that's a lot of work. And we would just
23:06rather
23:06hire Alex on than, uh, you know, hiring on someone else or hiring, getting a new contractor. And he has
23:13too much. He does too much. He does too good of work. That's what I really wanted them to say.
23:17Okay. So at the six month mark, I just wanted to get hired on as an entry level data analyst.
23:22That was my goal at the same rate. If I can make 78,000 at the same rate, I would.
23:28So I got into
23:28the, I got in there and they were like, Hey, listen, uh, this is my boss. My boss was like,
23:34you came in and you have just excelled. And again, I, I'm not saying this about myself in the bag.
23:39This is just what she said. She was like, you have excelled. You've taken on so many projects.
23:44You're doing so well and everybody really likes you. Like this person likes you. This person likes
23:49you. This person likes you. And that's really important for us. And we're really, really
23:53excited for you to join our team. So we want to actually offer you a promotion. The promotion
23:59was to a mid-level analyst. It was a data analyst two in the company. Um, in the level one,
24:05I was a
24:06junior. Then there's a level one. Then there's a level two. So they offer me a title of two promotions
24:11essentially. And then a page up to around 90,000, um, with a 10% bonus. So, um, of course
24:21I was
24:21like, absolutely. Like, I really, really appreciate you recognizing that and seeing that in me and,
24:27and giving me this opportunity. And so, um, that job, that was the biggest leap in my career by far
24:35that, well, for the most part, up until then, it was by far the biggest leap. So I was an
24:39entry
24:39level going to a data analyst two. And if nothing else, it was through just sheer hard work. Um,
24:50and I, I do think if I like looking back, if I had just kind of played it casually and
24:55just
24:55gone about my day and done my work, I don't know if I would have gotten that promotion. Um,
25:02just like doing my work and then going home, coming back, doing my work, not really putting
25:06in time to get to know people, not putting in time to take on those extra projects or learn those
25:11extra skills. I don't know if I would have got, I don't think I would have gotten promoted. Um,
25:15but again, I was in a position in my life where I needed that promotion. I needed that job to
25:21provide for my family. Like I didn't have any other option. So I was putting my all into it.
25:26And so that, that was how I got that promotion. Now, fast forward two years,
25:34two years later, um, I'm in my job and I have a, this is another really interesting scenario.
25:43I start seeing, you know, I've been there for two years. I'm like, I want to, I want a promotion.
25:49I do. And I'm starting to tell my boss this. I was like, Hey, you know, I've been here for
25:52two
25:52years. I'm thinking maybe at the end of the year, um, asking for a promotion, just to put that on
25:56your radar, because I really think I'm doing a great job. Um, and I really like, uh, the company
26:02and I like, you know, I want to stay here at the same time though. I was also applying to
26:07other
26:08companies, some of our competitors, McKesson Cardinal health, who are global fortune 10 companies as well.
26:15Um, that, you know, I thought, I thought would really value my experience and hire me.
26:20So I started applying to those positions for like, even things like I was applying for BI
26:24developer, data analyst positions, business analyst, uh, manager positions, and then a
26:29position opened up internally. Now internally, um, they do things a little bit different.
26:35So you have to tell your boss if you're applying for an internal position.
26:39So when I, I had to really think through, do I want to apply for these jobs or not? Um,
26:45and so I decided to do it. I was like, Hey, listen, I really want to work with you guys.
26:48And I'm really excited to, but these other positions are open in the company that I'm
26:51interested in. I'd like to apply. Is it, you know, is that okay? Is it like, are you okay
26:55with, you know, what do you think about that? And we had a good discussion. She's like, totally
26:58open for it. Thank you for telling me. Well, the one job was in a different department as a senior
27:03data analyst. And the other one was for a, uh, manager of operational analytics. The reason
27:09that I applied for the manager position was not because I fully felt super ready for it. Um,
27:14it was because let me pull up my notes. Not because I need to write notes. I just want to
27:19get back to them. Um, it was because I felt that the job description really fitted where I wanted
27:28to be. Not where I was. The job description for the manager position was like, Hey, we're right here,
27:33but we want to migrate everything into Azure. Well, serendipitously for the past two and a half
27:40years that I had been in my previous two positions at that company, we had been doing everything in
27:45Azure. I had what I felt become very, very good in Azure. Um, I had felt like I knew Databricks,
27:52PySpark, um, Azure data factory, data warehousing, uh, uh, just databases, um, data lakes. I felt like I
27:59had learned those really well. And at that time I was, um, I was working a lot with the data
28:06engineers and the data science team. So with the data engineers, with data collection, it's all
28:11data sources, bringing them in, cleaning and transforming data, putting it into a usable
28:15format, migrating data from other systems. So I was helping with all of those things. Um,
28:19not as a data engineer, but I got a lot of exposure to it and I got to help a
28:24lot with it.
28:24And so I, my skills grew immensely over those two and a half years in Azure and Databricks, um,
28:31and SQL, I got way better at SQL. And at that time I was just making really, having really good
28:37relationships with all the people, even up to like the VP level that I was, uh, sometimes working
28:42with. And so I felt that position fit me pretty well. And so I was like, I just want to
28:46apply.
28:47I was like, her name is Sabrina. I was like, Sabrina, I know it's kind of out there. I'm just
28:51gonna apply, see what happens. Right. I was like, I probably won't even get an interview, but you
28:55know, I'm just going to go crazy. Um, so I get an interview, um, not for the senior data
29:02analyst one. They didn't give me a, an interview, but for the analytics manager one. And I go
29:08through the initial interview and they were asking me about everything and I do in my
29:12position. And I was like, here's exactly what I do. Here's all my responsibilities. Here's
29:16what, how I've progressed over the years. And here's how I feel like I'd be a really good
29:20fit for that position. Well, they really thought they were like, Hey, this guy seems to know
29:24really what he's talking about. Like that's a really good thing. Um, and it did not hurt
29:30that when they looked me up, they found my YouTube channel, which at the time I had like
29:35this was two years ago, maybe a hundred thousand subscribers at the time, which was a ton of
29:41subscribers. And so we chatted about that and that didn't hurt me at all. Like, I think
29:45that kind of impressed them that I was doing this on the side because I really like this
29:49work. I really enjoy this field. Um, and so I don't, I think that helped now they had
29:55other candidates. I know they were talking to other people cause they told me they were
29:58like, Hey, we have other interviews. So, you know, we'll let you know. Well, they came
30:02back and they offer me the job. Now this is like a massive promotion, mid-level analyst
30:09to a manager of an entire team of like seven developers, data analysts, business analysts.
30:15That's a big leap. Um, and so that was a three round interview, right? It wasn't just
30:20one, but that was a three round interview. And each one was a someone higher. Eventually
30:24the CTO that was, or the CIO, um, chief information officer of this fortune and company was my last
30:32interview. Um, and he loved me and I actually worked with him a ton in that position, but they
30:38offered me the job and I go back to Sabrina. I'm like, Hey, Sabrina, they actually offered
30:43me the job and she was not happy about that. I'm not like angry at me for applying. She
30:48was like, she, they had plans for me in my position for the future. They didn't want to
30:54let me go essentially. So then she was like, Hey Alex, listen, I went to our team and here's
31:02what we can do in three months. We want to give you a promotion to, I think it was manager
31:08of analytics or maybe it was her position, which was manager of something analytics. I can't
31:14remember. They were going to give me her job and she was going to get a promotion. And I was
31:18like,
31:19well, can you guarantee that? Can I get a contract saying that I will get this position
31:24in three months? And so she went back and they were like, no, we can't. We went to HR,
31:28went to legal. They said they can't, but we can, you know, we will do that. Well,
31:34they also offer, couldn't offer me a big pay raise. It was just going to be mostly entitled
31:38because of budgetary reasons. This other job was offering me like 115,000 with a 15% bonus,
31:45which was a lot more money. And so I really had to weigh my pros and cons. I was like,
31:50do I stay here and really hope and kind of trust that they're going to do that, but not get
31:54a big
31:55pay increase, but I get to grow there. Or do I take this other job with more money? And I
32:02know I'm
32:02going to get more money. It's going to be a much more challenging position because I'll have to
32:05learn all new things. And in the end, I decided to, I decided to take the other job and it
32:13was a
32:13tough decision. I really went back and forth. Like I, you can ask my wife, I went back and forth
32:17on that.
32:20And it was just, it was, it was really tough because I really liked the people I worked with.
32:24I really, really did. But I, that's what, at that time, that's what I wanted to do with my career.
32:31That's just what I wanted to do. Now, looking back, I wish I had gone the other way. I wish
32:36I
32:36had stayed looking back because the opera, the manager position I took was not crazy technical.
32:42It was technical for the Azure part of it. And I got to, you know, write POWs and SOWs or
32:47statements
32:48of work and proof of work. And I had to do all of this really high level stuff that like,
32:52I got to work with directors and VPs and CTOs and CIOs. And I, it was a great experience,
32:57but I was not my passion. Like it just wasn't. And so I really do wish I had taken that
33:06other one
33:06because in, this is some advice. I think identifying, identifying what really made me happy would have
33:14been helpful. I didn't identify it when I was there. I saw more money and I saw a career progression
33:21that
33:21I was looking for. Now I wanted to be a manager. I wanted, I wanted to progress my career. Eventually
33:28I wanted to be VP and CIO and CTO, not of that company probably, but that's what was my career
33:33progression. So I was like, this is a faster progression to where I want to be. But it turned
33:40out it just wasn't, I missed coding. I missed hands-on work. I missed figuring out these problems that I
33:48was
33:48already in my previous job that I really loved. And I thought that would transfer to this other
33:52position. It just didn't. And so looking back, I really wish I had taken their kind of deal that
33:57they had given me or the, you know, the CTO job offer. I wish I had taken that. But again,
34:06that was
34:06another position where I had positioned myself in my job where that, that part of department didn't
34:12want to let me go. And the other one really saw my value, even though I wasn't like already a
34:18manager and didn't have manager experience. On the job description, they were, they were looking
34:22for someone who already had five years as a manager. So I really had to sell myself and really
34:29had to point to specific projects and tangible things within my previous role, my role that I
34:34was in as to why they should hire me and why I'd be a good fit for that job. So
34:39some of the things
34:40that, some of the ways that I got, I did that as I was taking on really big projects, again,
34:44similar to earlier, what I was saying, I took on really big projects. I was taking on projects
34:50that other people couldn't do. So I had domain knowledge in this very niche area and nobody
34:56else really knew about it. And I was like, Hey, I know that I did that in my previous job.
35:00I was
35:01like, let me take that project on. And so I was in charge of like that project working with three
35:06other people. So I would tell them, Hey, here's what we need to do. And that was like a multi,
35:10I saved our company millions of dollars. Because you have, it's something called MIPS. If you've
35:17never heard of it, look it up. At the end of the year, hospitals have to submit these things,
35:22these measurable things as data to Medicare or Medicaid, whichever one that you're probably
35:29Medicare. You have to submit these things and track them in order to get reimbursed for certain
35:34things and make millions of dollars for some of these companies. Well, the people who were doing it
35:39before all quit. So they had nobody to submit data for like 50 or 75 hospitals. It was a bad,
35:45it was bad news. That's like tens of millions of dollars for these companies. So I came in and I
35:49was like, Hey, I know about that. Let me take that on. So my domain knowledge, it's really took over
35:54there. And I was like, here's how we need to do this. Here's how we can collect this data. Here's
35:59how we need to organize it to submit it on the, on this platform. And I really set myself apart.
36:05I was working when I took that project on, I was working with like the VP of analytics,
36:09um, well, a VP of data science. Cause that was the department that I was in. And I really set
36:14myself apart because I had the domain knowledge. I had the experience and I took over the project
36:19and stepped up and did what I needed to do. Um, and I've done that on many occasions. I had
36:23done
36:23that on many occasions in that job. And so that I think was pretty invaluable along with that.
36:30I had been building relationships a lot. We had a lot of company events that I'd go to. Um,
36:35you know, I, I would go around and talk to people and I tried to be much more social.
36:40I'm not naturally super social, but I kind of forced myself to be, um, and that went a long way
36:45as well. And then my skills just like exponentially were growing. I was just getting better at everything
36:51I was working on and working with those three things, um, really set me apart from other people
36:58in my department who were working on similar things, but we're not working as hard as I was.
37:02If somebody is listening, who was at my department or working where I was working, um, don't take
37:08insult to that. I'm not trying to insult you. I'm just, that's how I perceived it. And that's what
37:13I was told by my boss and my boss's boss. Um, and so that's just like, I'm not trying to
37:19be insulting
37:20to you if you're listening to this. Um, so then I got the, the promotion to, um, the manager of
37:27operational analytics. Now that job was, this is the, this is where I decided to start my
37:34own business, but in the background, I've been taking on consulting. I started my own
37:38consulting company, um, Alex analytics, LLC. I've been working with companies here and there
37:43and the business has started to grow and I was working in my full-time job along the,
37:48at the same time. And so this is around the time where I was, uh, I'm getting, I'm gonna,
37:55uh, I gotta pull up something again. I was doing a really good job. Um, but it was just
38:04very different. I was a people manager now. Um, so I had people underneath me, whereas
38:10before I never had. And when you're people managing the way that you do well is you have
38:17other people do well. So if my team is doing really well, I'm doing really well. And so I
38:22would enable them and help them and do everything I could to enable them to do good work. And
38:27so part of what I was doing is just trying to motivate them to take on projects and motivate
38:33them to, you know, do good work and think outside the box and take certifications and
38:37learn and advance their career. And so I gave promotions to every single person within one
38:42year, every single person that was on my team, because except for one person who I fired,
38:47um, and that's a different story. But these other people who are doing really good, I was
38:51like, you guys are doing great. You deserve a promotion. You haven't had a promotion in
38:54a year. You deserve a promotion. And she was doing great. And so I gave everyone on my team,
38:59um, a promotion. And so I was well liked by the team, but there was one person who just wasn't
39:05doing good work at all. And so he had to be let go. Um, but that's just part of being
39:09a manager.
39:09And so then we were working on all this stuff to migrate over to a cloud-based platform. I had
39:15to do
39:15all the research on that. All of the vendors had to come in and give presentations. I had to do
39:19all
39:19the, um, you know, financials for how much this would cost, future hires that we would need to
39:24make, and then submit it as a budget, uh, uh, into a, into, I had to submit it for budgeting,
39:32right? So they can budget for projects that we're going to take on. They had been trying to get this
39:36done for, I think about three years and no one had been able to make it, get it done. I
39:41got in there
39:42in six months, we had a budget approved. Um, and I just worked really hard to make it happen. I
39:48was
39:48like, we really need this. I was like, let's make this happen. Let's make this a priority.
39:52And I started talking to other heads of departments. I was like, here's what you'll
39:55get out of this. Let's kind of team up on this, make this a priority for it, not just me
39:59and my
40:00department. And so I got, I got buy-in from other departments and we all pushed for it to happen
40:06and we made it happen. So at this time, um, I'm, I'm like, Hey, uh, my consulting stuff and YouTube
40:16stuff is doing really well. Um, consulting had been kind of almost catching up to my full-time
40:21income. I've only been doing like 10 extra hours a week. I was like, if I could dedicate all my
40:26time
40:26to doing that, um, do 40 hours a week, I could make much more than my full-time salary. And
40:32so it
40:33got to the point where it was like almost even. And I was like, okay, I think I need to
40:38quit my
40:38job. And it wasn't like, because of anything else, I was like, I just, I'm more passionate
40:44about my consulting and what I'm doing there than my full-time job. So I go to them. I'm like,
40:48Hey
40:48guys, I'm quitting. Um, and they were like, no, Alex, don't go like, like, well, what can we do to
40:57make you stay? Um, and I just like, you know what? I really have enjoyed working. I really
41:02appreciate it. Uh, you guys have been amazing. I just, I I'm starting my own business and it's
41:08going really well. And that's the reason I was like, there's nothing you can, there's nothing,
41:13uh, you know, that we can do, uh, in the end. Um, and so I left and I started my
41:18own business.
41:18That was kind of a, even a self-promotion, uh, because now I get to do all my own work
41:23and I have
41:24videos, uh, long form videos like this, where I've talked about how I started in consulting, how I built
41:30it up, how it works, how the money I charge, everything. So if you're interested in that,
41:34go check that out. Um, but those have, that's how I, that's my career track. And that's all
41:40happened. That all happened within five years. Cause I quit at the end of December of 2022.
41:48So, and now I'm recording this right now at the end of December in 2023. So it's been a year.
41:56I've
41:56been, I've quit my job a year ago and it was the best decision I've ever made. It allowed me
42:00to
42:01focus so much on other things like Analyst Builder. Um, like I, if, if you haven't already
42:06checked it out, check out Analyst Builder. I, a whole platform for data analytics, just for people
42:09like you, um, has all full courses, a place to practice technical interview questions. And we're
42:15having so many more things. And I was able to do that because I quit my job. I had no
42:20time when I had
42:21a full-time job. Um, so that was a self-promotion. So, uh, let me look up, let me look.
42:27I keep,
42:27I keep not having my notes up or having to go to a different page. And so this is, uh,
42:32not the best.
42:33Um, so let me recap. No, I'm not going to recap everything I just talked about. Let me recap some
42:39of the, some of the high level things that I think were really important to note throughout that process
42:43and things that I think you should look for, um, when looking to get promoted in your, in your
42:48position. One, when you're looking for promotions, it can either be internal or external. Internal
42:54positions tend to be more title-based with smaller promotions. My company had a cap on promotions at
43:0010%. Um, I, when I was getting the manager position, because my position was offering me,
43:08I was able to leverage that and I got them to go to a, uh, accounting and ask for a
43:12special promotion
43:13of 20%. So I was able to do that. Uh, that was, that was one, one thing, but internal is
43:19typically
43:19harder to get. They usually have caps on how big of promotions they can give. So internal is usually
43:25a bigger title than it is a, um, uh, monetary external usually get more money. So you, you're
43:33switching from a job. You can get 20, 30% more when you're switching jobs. So just look at that.
43:38Um,
43:38that's just something to be aware of. That doesn't help you get a promotion, but just something to be
43:41aware of. Promoting from entry level to mid level is standard. Like everyone should be able to do
43:48that. Um, if you have an entry level job for one or two years, you should be a mid level.
43:53You should
43:54ask for a promotion internal, external, doesn't matter. You should be able to get it. Cause now
43:57you have two years experience. You're no longer entry level. That's kind of like standard. Like
44:01you should be able to do that. Mid level to senior level is a little bit, it's quite a bit
44:06more
44:06challenging because entry to mid is just like entry. You don't know anything. So then when you
44:11have some experience, you know, things now, and you're like, I'm not an entry level anymore
44:15because now I'm not asking, having to ask questions for, for every single thing. I can
44:21take on a few small projects now. Um, people kind of know me, uh, and I know the skills now.
44:26So now you're mid level. Mid level, the senior level is a much bigger jump. Um, mid level is
44:32like, I'm taking on projects. I know these skills. Well, people know me. I've been in this position
44:38for three, four years. I deserve to be a senior, but senior level is quite a bit different. Senior
44:42level. You're usually mentoring, uh, uh, more entry or mid level people. You're taking on much
44:48more important projects. They expect you have some type of domain knowledge. So if your job
44:51hopping to other domains may be tougher to get to senior because usually they expect that that level
44:56that you have a more domain knowledge in the area that they have because technical skills only get
45:02you so far, a lot of it comes from understanding the business really well. Um, and that was an area
45:09that I think I really excelled at. I just understood healthcare really well. And I knew a lot of
45:14different moving parts that were really relevant to our company. And so I think that helped me get
45:17promoted pretty quick. And so you should be thinking about that as well. You know, if you want to go
45:22from mid to senior, you really need to have more domain knowledge and of course, more technical
45:26skills, but you should be taking on bigger projects already as a mid level, you should be taking on
45:30bigger projects so that when you ask for that senior level promotion, you can say, I've been
45:34taking on these, what I would consider senior level projects. Um, and you should really be networking
45:39and getting to know people because a senior level is somebody that everyone in different departments
45:44is going to look to, to be the most knowledgeable in that area. Now, if there's other senior analysts,
45:49then of course you'll be hopefully just as knowledgeable, but you should be the best out of the mid
45:55level and entry level. You shouldn't be the same as an entry level or a mid level.
46:00Um, and so, you know, you know, let me see, let me see what I'm saying. Uh, so that is
46:06what you need
46:07to do technically in order to get those promotions. The next thing you have to do is ask. Now I
46:13asked,
46:14uh, I never really asked for promotion. One was given to me when I went from the junior
46:20data analyst to the mid level analyst. Um, but I asked when I applied to external jobs. So from the
46:28healthcare analytics company to the fortune 10 company, I went out and sought a different job
46:33and I asked for that job. Same thing when I went to the manager, I was applying and looking for
46:38that
46:38job. So sometimes you're going to have to ask. Now I was a manager of data analytics or a manager
46:46of
46:46operational analytics, which was for our data analytics team. And I encourage people to ask me,
46:52I'm like, Hey, listen, if you feel like you want something, you need to ask. Cause I can't always
46:57read everything. Like if you want to go for a certificate and you want our company to pay for
47:00it, just ask me if you feel like you deserve a promotion or you want to pivot your, your job
47:05to another position, just ask, I will help you. That's my, my job. And so as an example, we had
47:12a
47:12business analyst, um, who is in Lithuania who wanted to be a BI developer. And I was like, okay,
47:18okay, well tell me like, what, what do you want to do? What kind of skills do you want? She's
47:21like,
47:21I really want to be a BI developer because I really like automation and this kind of stuff.
47:27I was like, that's great. Well, in my time there, as well as moving to the cloud, I also was
47:32moving
47:32our team from the built-in tool of analytics that we had to Power BI. And so I said, Hey,
47:38listen,
47:39if you learn Power BI and you get this certification, which was not a crazy hard search. It's like a
47:43Microsoft Power BI certification. I was like, I can go to HR. I can put in the budget request,
47:49put in the position change request, and I can make you our BI, Power BI developer. And, you know,
47:57she, the only reason I knew that is because she talked to me about it and she told me.
48:01So if you're in a job, you have to make it known that you want that, that you want to
48:07change positions,
48:08that you want a promotion. People aren't just going to give it to you typically, just doesn't
48:12typically happen. I'm kind of, I feel like that was an outlier thing for me. But typically you're
48:18going to need to ask like, Hey, I would like a promotion. Hey, at the end of this year, I've
48:22been here for two years. I would love a promotion. I feel like I deserve a promotion. If I want
48:28to
48:28stay here, however you want to say that. But that is how you should go about asking for these
48:34promotions. Um, so that is kind of like the core, the core values or advice or, or things that I
48:46would take away from, um, this conversation or this video or whatever you want to say is that
48:55you got to work hard for the promotions. You have to learn the skills. You have to network. You have
49:01to
49:01take on big projects and you have to ask for it. Um, I hope the whole purpose of me talking
49:08about my
49:08experience was to show how I got my promotions, how I got my different jobs. Um, because you know,
49:17when I was starting out, I didn't have anybody to ask these things or tell me these things. I didn't
49:22know. I had to learn all of this myself from scratch. And so I make these videos and this type
49:28of video to kind of be that mentor and be like, here's how I did it. Here's what I've learned.
49:34And I'm hoping to, you know, give you this information for free so that you can go and do
49:39it yourself. Um, and you can advance your career, make better for your family and your future and,
49:45you know, really make progress where you may not have been able to do that beforehand.
49:50If you weren't aware of it, if you weren't thinking about it or, or consciously making decisions
49:55towards that path. Um, now promotions don't have to go all the way up to manager.
50:02There are times where I look back and I'm like, I really wish I just stayed a data analyst. I
50:06really love the technical side of things. I really liked the work. So I kind of wish I just stayed
50:11and
50:11gotten to like a senior data analyst or taking that more hands-on manager position. And my, um,
50:17that my old boss had offered me. So, um, there's lots of different paths though, you know,
50:23in promotions don't have to be just data analytics. Maybe you want to go into data
50:27engineering. Maybe you really love, um, data models and you really love automation and data
50:33pipelines, which I do too. I almost went into data engineering. Um, you know, that's a promotion
50:38too, right? Even if, um, even if it's like you go back, you're a mid-level data analyst, but then
50:45you're an entry-level data engineer. Well, it's more technical. So maybe that's the equivalent,
50:49right? So, you know, that you don't have to progress just in data analytics and something
50:57that you love. If you love data science, go into data science. If you love data architecture,
51:01do that. If you'd like being a program manager or a product manager, do that. Find what you love
51:07and follow that because I promise you, you know, if I didn't have my consulting and I didn't have
51:12my YouTube channel and I was in that manager position of operational analytics,
51:15analytics, I wouldn't have been super happy there long-term. I would have been looking for
51:19something else because it just didn't really fulfill me. It wasn't like something I was
51:23passionate about. I would have stayed in it for a while because the money was good, but I would
51:27have been looking. I would have been like, this is not what I want to do long-term. So really
51:30think
51:31about that. Think about long-term what you want to do. And I think that'll go a long, long way.
51:36Um, now this is the very end of this entire thing. And I really hope, I genuinely hope that this
51:43has been helpful to you. I hope that, um, you know, you got something out of this. Hopefully
51:49people who are listening to this, uh, are, you're in a position where you can start getting promoted
51:52and you can actively act on this advice. Um, but it's really, if you're able to get through all
51:58this, cause I just talk sometimes, right? If you're really able to get through all this,
52:01that means you're really committed to analytics and getting promotions and advancing your career.
52:07I hats off to you because that's what you should be. Um, and so if you got here, we have
52:13something
52:13on the channel. We have a vegetable of the week. It's called vegetable of the week. Cause I used
52:17to do these weekly, but I just, my schedule doesn't allow it anymore, but the vegetable of the week or
52:22this episode is green beans. So if you watched all the way to this and you want to show that
52:29you're
52:29really committed, you made it all the way here and you are really dedicated to getting a promotion
52:33in the comments, you write green beans. That's it. And all the other people who didn't get to the
52:38end, they're going to be like, who, why are they typing green beans in the bottom? I know. And you
52:42know, um, it genuinely just, it's a fun thing that I do because I think those people who make it
52:48to the
52:48end and really commit to these videos and really are interested in that topic, whatever topic I'm
52:52talking about, like they are really committed. That's like a 45 minutes, an hour of their time
52:57spend to this. And so, uh, write that, write that down there. Um, and that's it. That, that is,
53:05that is the whole show. So if you want to, uh, uh, leave, you can, um, but I'm just going
53:10to chat a
53:10little bit. I've been, I've been working nonstop, just nonstop. Um, all good things though. I've been
53:18trying to take on less consulting so I can spend more time on analyst builder. Um, analyst builder
53:25started as like an idea and now it's grown more into like people really like it and it's generating
53:32money. And I have a team who's working on it and people really like they send me messages all the
53:38time saying they love it so much. So if you haven't tried out analyst builder, genuinely do that. You
53:43will love it. Um, if you like me, cause I teach all the courses, I, I created all the questions.
53:49Um,
53:51if you like it, it's phenomenal. It's so good. I'm really, really, really, really,
53:55really proud of it. And it's only going to get better. So if you haven't checked it out,
53:58definitely do. I'll leave a link in the description, but I'm trying to spend more
54:01time on that to create really great courses that are really affordable for ever for everyday people.
54:07Um, so create really great courses, create a great platform and just, you know, build that up
54:13because I see that as being something that's like a legacy I can leave behind. Um, who knows how much
54:19longer the YouTube world will accept me. Maybe it'll accept me for another five years,
54:23or maybe it could be a year and they're like, ah, Alex, the dude's washed up. He's so out of,
54:28he's so out of reach out of touch. Um, I don't think so though. In my consulting, I do a
54:33lot of
54:33data analytics. I keep up with it quite a bit. So I don't feel like, I hope that's not what
54:38people
54:38perceive me as. Um, but other than that, uh, dude, just got back from a trip, um, with my,
54:46my family. There was 17 of us, my brother, his family, my parents, their family, uh,
54:51my adopted siblings. And then my family, 17, maybe it's 16, but I came back and I had a sore
54:58throat.
55:00I was like, I can't, I can't let it, can't let it stop me because I got too much to
55:03do.
55:04Let's see what else is going on in my life. I'm sure you're interested. What's going on in my life?
55:08No, you're not interested, but I'm going to keep talking. It's my show. I can do what I want.
55:11Um, actually I only have a minute left. Ooh, minute, 30 seconds. What else do I want to say in
55:16a
55:16minute, 30 seconds? Um, huh? Not much, not much. I'm coaching my son's soccer team.
55:27That's fun. That's really fun. Uh, he scored our first goal. I'm really proud of him. Even if he
55:33didn't, I'd still be proud of him though. He's doing really well. Uh, you know, I don't even know.
55:41Usually I have stuff to talk about the end. Um, but I, I, I'm just, just doing, I'm doing,
55:46I'm doing good. I'm just, it's the winter season. So things are colder. I don't like that as much,
55:51but, uh, yeah, I'm gonna leave it at that. It's kind of a downer, kind of a downer for the
55:56end,
55:56uh, which I'm fine with. That's okay with me. There's only five of you. There's only five of you
56:01listening. Um, anyways, thank you for watching. I really appreciate it. I hope this was really
56:07helpful. I genuinely do. So with that being said, I will see you in the next episode. Bye.
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