Tech With Tayo

I finished work at 11:23 a.m. making $489,000 a year as a cloud engineer, and three years earlier I was an IT technician making $35,000 a year working 9 to 10 hour days. This video is the honest breakdown of what my day-to-day actually looked like and why the hours were so short.

Same brain, same work ethic, different income. The only thing that changed was the skill set. I learned one word from Robert Kiyosaki's Retire Young Retire Rich, leverage, and I asked myself a simple question: what skill lets me make more money and work less? The answer for me was cloud engineering plus knowing how to actually use AI. I retired my 9 to 5 at 28. I am not special and this is not rocket science, you just need a step-by-step blueprint and the discipline to follow it.

In this video I walk through a real morning of work, VPCs, EC2s, load balancers, security groups and Terraform, how I use AI to cut a multi hour build down to 30 to 45 minutes, how I legally and ethically ran multiple contracts at once, and where all that extra time actually went.

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Do not just take my word for it, go see the proof yourself:
→ My Instagram highlights are full of real student offer letters, including Christopher, who received $1.1 million across seven offer letters in six months and is now in the $600,000 range. He is an outlier, not the average, and he followed the blueprint step by step.
→ The student testimonial playlist above has the full stories in their own words.
→ Then go talk to other cloud engineers who use AI in their day-to-day and see how they leverage their time. Do your own due diligence.

Here's what we cover:
→ Leverage, the one word that changed my income, and why you start with the clock and not the money
→ A real morning of cloud engineering work, VPC, public and private subnets, four EC2s, an application load balancer and security groups, built with Terraform
→ How I prompt AI to write the Terraform and debug the errors, and why context is the thing AI cannot give you
→ $35,000 to $489,000 with the same brain, and why the gap is a high income leverage skill
→ How multiple contracts work when you are paid on deliverables instead of hours
→ Where the extra hours actually went, day trading, then swing trading and investing 90 to 95% of my income to build a system that pays me without me
→ Why AI infrastructure and data centers mean cloud demand is not going anywhere
→ The trap I fell into, a degree, three certifications and Uber Eats at 2 a.m., because I worked hard on the wrong things

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - My Actual Morning Routine
1:30 - Building EC2s, Load Balancers & VPCs with AI
3:15 - Why I Talk to AI Instead of Typing Code
5:00 - Same Person, Two Different Incomes
7:30 - Where the Extra Hours Actually Went
10:15 - How I Used Day Trading to Build Capital
13:00 - Investing 90-95% of My Income
16:00 - Why Multiple Contracts Are Possible in Cloud
19:30 - The $70K Degree That Didn't Work
22:00 - Working Hard vs Working Smart
25:00 - Christopher's $1.1M in Offer Letters

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