i hired my replacement….kind of (the FUTURE of NetworkChuck)
About this video
Chuck gives a channel update on the future of NetworkChuck. He says he quit his full-time instructor job at CBT Nuggets in 2020 to make more training free on YouTube, growing, by his account, from 459,000 subscribers in September 2020 to 1 million in early 2021. Despite that growth he apologizes for failing viewers and himself: his CCNA, Linux for Hackers, and Python Right Now series remain unfinished because, even after hiring an admin and video editor in 2021 plus contract editing and thumbnail help, he is the bottleneck — there is only one of him to appear on camera. His fix is hiring his brother Cameron as a second full-time content creator. Chuck retraces Cameron’s path as proof the model works: no college, A+ at 19 with a computer-repair job, CCENT (half the old CCNA), a help-desk job and CCNA at 20 followed by his first network engineering job, then AWS Solutions Architect Associate and a move to cloud engineering at 22. Plans stated for 2022 include reviving a Monday livestream as interviews/podcast, focusing on the Discord community, producing more course and experimental content, and investing in NetworkChuck Premium, described as $12/month with early access and a NahamSec intro to bug bounty course included. His phrase for the year is ‘do more better.’ A HelloFresh cooking sponsor segment is included.
Key takeaways
- Chuck identifies himself as the bottleneck: outsourcing editing, admin, and thumbnails did not finish his series because only he could present them
- His solution is adding a second presenter — his brother Cameron — rather than more back-office help, to finish CCNA, Linux, and Python series and start new ones
- Cameron’s retraced path: skip college, A+ at 19, CCENT and CCNA by 20 into network engineering, then AWS Solutions Architect Associate into cloud engineering at 22
- Stated 2022 priorities are the revived livestream/podcast, Discord community building, and more frequent content
- NetworkChuck Premium is presented as a way to fund free YouTube content, with early access and third-party courses bundled for members
Episode details: published January 28, 2022 · 15:26 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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