Follow Your Bliss

I've decided to finally stop living up to peoples expectations and doing something that needs to be done: Following my bliss.

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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973) ♡

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I'm Back

I’m Back

Y’all, it’s been way too long. My last post was December 0f 2019. As we all know, a lot of changes have been had since then, especially due to the Coronavirus. I hope you all have been healthy and taking care of yourselves (mentally and physically) during this time. Change can be good, change can be scary. I feel that in order to grow, change is necessary. I took time away from the blog…

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Oh Failure

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, failure can mean the following:

Lack of success

A falling Short

One that has failed (thanks Webster)

Failure sucks. When you decide to set a goal, be it obtaining a certification, preparing for a technical interview for a company you’ve dreamed of working, you research what content is needed to pass, you study said content, and you sit for the exam…

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uCertify Course Review (MCSA 70-742)

uCertify Course Review (MCSA 70-742)

What’s up, y’all? A while ago, I was asked by uCertify to review any one of their courses. Since I need to brush up on my Active Directory skills for work, I decided to check out their MCSA 70-742 Active Directory course.

What is uCertify?

Allow me to back up a bit and explain what uCertify is and what they are about. Ucertify is an online training platform that provides interactive course…

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Back to School I Go

Back to School I Go

What’s up, y’all? I recently made the decision to go back to school for my Bachelor’s degree in Network Operations and Security at Western Governor’s University (WGU). I start classes July 1st and I am beyond excited!

What Made Me Want to Go Back to School?

After passing my CCNA R&S in December, my motivation to reach my goals has been at an all-time high. The problem was that I wasn’t sure which…

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How I Chose My Specialization

How I Chose My Specialization

The IT field is kick a#% ! Working in tech is fun, it’s challenging, it can get boring (depending on what you define as boring), it’s ever-changing, and if you want to be good at what you do, you have to keep up with the latest and greatest technology out there. Not to mention, there’s so many different paths to go down (just to name a few):

Systems Administration

Network Administration

Systems…

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5/23 Update

What’s up, y’all? I hope you all are doing well. Just wanted to say hello and give an update on what I’ve been up to.

Work has been extremely busy. I just finished building out a deployment system that would mass image a large amount of computers with Windows 10. I’ve never done that before and it was intimidating, but I got it done and the deployment system appears to be working well.

Due to…

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You vs. You: Impostor Syndrome and Overcoming It

“They’re gonna find me out! My manager and my team are going realize I have no idea what I’m doing, I’m not on their level, and they are going to fire my a*&. How will I make my car payment? Maybe McDonald’s will hire me back. I was a cute Fry Girl!”

-Me, circa 2005 during my first month as a Tech Support Rep

What is Impostor Syndrome?

I would just like to say Impostor Syndrome is a mother$^@%*#.

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MCSA Server 2016

It has been a busy couple of months! The new job is going well. I am still learning a lot about our internal systems, helping users on the fly, sitting in on conference calls with vendors, and working in the data center here and there.

My job is to not only help maintain the current production environment, but should a new server need to be spun of or something breaks, it’s on me to fix the…

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Being a Black Woman in IT

With Black History Month coming to an end, I felt compelled to write about something from my own point of view: Being a Black Woman in IT. When people ask me what it’s like to work in this field, I usually talk about my first IT job, how I got into tech, but I have never spoke about what it’s like for me, Keithia Williams, to be a black woman working in the IT field.

So, here it goes.

I am an…

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I'm A Systems Administrator

I’m A Systems Administrator

I must say, 2019 looks to be very promising. 

I recently accepted a role as a Systems Administrator for a local company and will start that next week. I am excited to start my new opportunity as a Systems Administrator. I can’t wait to learn new things and get started on the projects my new manager has planned out. 

I’m grateful for the experience I was given at my current company. The people, the…

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How I Passed My CCNA

How I Passed My CCNA

On August 31 of 2018, I passed my CCENT. On December 17th, I passed my ICND2 exam and became CCNA certified (yay!). I’ve had a few people reach out to me on Instagram and LinkedIn asking what I did to prepare for the exams, so I wanted to take some time and talk about that today.

I did write a previous posttalking about what I did to prepare for the CCENT exam, so I apologize in advance for…

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope the holidays have been good to you all, as they have been to me. I am on staycation until this Saturday and am enjoying every bit of being off from work, as it has given me time to reflect on 2018 and the prospects of 2019.

Looking back at 2018, this was a good year for me: My wife and I moved back home to Kentucky to be closer to friends and family, I was hired…

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How Do I Get into IT?

How Do I Get into IT?

Someone on Instagram messaged me last night asking how important a specific cert was in regard to getting into IT. They also asked how do I get started, if I had a degree and how I was able to get my first IT job without any certifications, degree or experience. So, today I’m going to talk about getting your start in this awesome and challenging field and how some of you can as well.

Let’s do it.

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Certification Study: Keeto's Rule of 5

Certification Study: Keeto’s Rule of 5

Lately I have had my head in the ICND2 book, and man, it’s different! I’m going to take a break for a minute and answer a question I’ve been getting lately:

What is your study plan?

Because I have a tendency to feel under-prepared, I purposefully overload myself with study material, fearing that when it’s time to sit for that exam, I’m going to get a question I’ve never learned about. For every…

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