Our guest today is Phil Gervasi, Director of Technical Evangelism at Kentik.

Phil will tell us why and how he decided to pursue a career in technology after six years of teaching history at a high school, and how he arrived at his current position at Kentik.

We will discuss the role of automation in today's tech industry and whether we should be concerned about fewer entry-level jobs as a result.

He'll explain what a technical evangelist is, what his favorite job was, what he thinks about the hustle culture and the issues with tying your identity to your role.

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My students would ask me, “Hey, Phil, what is the most lucrative thing that I can do?”
I would always say get a help desk job, don't get a job, you know, just adjusting prefixes on routers, and then nothing else.
Get a job at a help desk, and you will touch everything.
Then you'll figure out what precisely you want to do.
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Phil's Links:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Blog

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