From RCDD To Career Roadmap: What Comes Next And How To Use It

We turn the “morning after” anxiety into a clear roadmap for what to do once you pass a major credential like the RCDD. We map next certifications, role pathways, and ways to pay it forward so the credential becomes a lever, not a finish line.

• adopting a continuous learning mindset
• choosing field certs that complement design
• mapping 2, 5, and 10 year career goals
• selecting between RTPM and PMP for growth
• exploring data center and OSP pathways
• weighing estimating, PM, sales, QA, consulting
• building credibility with real site experience
• avoiding the credential-collecting trap
• mentoring newcomers and forming study groups
• volunteering for BICSI and ANSI committees
• creating content that builds authority

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Housekeeping
• 0:44 Subscribes, Reviews, And Support
• 2:01 Thanksgiving Break And Gratitude
• 2:29 The Day After You Pass
• 3:36 Is It A Finish Line Or Start?
• 4:22 Continuous Learning Mindset
• 4:46 Three-Part Plan For Next Steps
• 5:11 Field Certs That Complement RCDD
• 8:21 Why Field Experience Sharpens Design
• 10:43 Data Center, RTPM, OSP Paths
• 11:43 Ad Break: Advertise On The Show
• 12:22 Micro Certs And PMP vs RTPM
• 14:20 Career Tree: PM, Design, Training
• 15:47 Plan Two, Five, Ten Year Goals
• 17:09 Avoid Collecting Letters Trap
• 18:10 Ad Break: GoFar Fiber Training
• 18:28 Operations And Soft Skills
• 19:06 Estimating And Design Track
• 21:04 Sales And Trusted Advisor Role
• 22:33 Manufacturer And Training Roles
• 24:37 Quality Assurance Pathway
• 26:28 Consulting And Rep Firms
• 27:42 Pay It Forward Through Mentorship
• 29:09 Volunteer For Committees And ANSI
• 31:02 Create Content And Study Groups
• 32:06 Final Takeaway: Use The Key

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

Hey water monkeys, welcome to another episode of Let's Talk Gaming. So this week we're talking about the morning after your RCD. Welcome to the show. We tackle the tough questions submitted by apprentices, installers, technicians, foremen, project managers, estimators, even customers. We're connecting at the human level so that we can connect the world. If you're watching this show on YouTube and you like this content, would you mind clicking on that subscribe button and that bell button to be notified when new content is being produced? If you're listening to us on one of the audio podcast platforms, would you mind leaving us a five-star rating? If the show's not a five-star rating show, send me a message and let me know what I can do to make this a better show. Wednesday nights, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. What are you doing? You know I do live streams on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, where you get to ask your favorite RCDD. And you know that's me. Your favorite RCDD questions on installation, design, certification, project management, estimation. I even do career back questions. But I can hear it up. Relax. I record them and you can watch them at your convenience. And finally, while this show is free, it will always remain free. If you find value in this content, would you scan that little QR code button right there? You can you can uh schedule a 15-minute one-on-one call with me after hours, of course. You can even uh buy me a cup of tea or a cup of coffee. You can even buy Let's Talk Cabling merchandise. So this week, first off, before we get started, if you didn't notice, I did not put out any content last week. It was Thanksgiving week. I decided to unplug and spend time with the family. And uh and I'm gonna let everybody know that I am thankful to each and every audience member who listens to this podcast. So I took out the week off. We we were camping, got to relax, stared at the fire for a while, recharged my batteries, and I'm ready to rock and roll. So this week I'm gonna talk about you know getting a major certification. I use RCDD for my title because that's the credential that I'm most knownly talking about, but this can be any major credential. It doesn't have to be the RCDD, it could be the PMP, it could be the DCDC, it could be, you know, the CFOT. But you put so much time and energy and thought and study and memorizing and knowing the curriculum. It's it's like a marathon, a marathon to get these major certifications, like your RCDD. And then once you get that RCD, you realize you still have to drive yourself home, right? So, what do you actually do with that credential once the adrenaline phase? I remember my first day after I, my first full day after I got my my notification, because I had to call back then and get if you pass or not. And I remember when I got that, I remember that uh I was like, oh my god, now everybody's gonna expect me to know everything. There's a lot of anxiety with it, right? And and this this show is actually spawned by a post that I saw on LinkedIn. Somebody said, you know, what do you do after you get your certification? And that post literally talked more about how to do your CECs and credentialing, but that got me to thinking, there's more to that story. Let's talk about that post-RCD anxiety that nobody tells you about. Yeah, they always tell you about the studying and how hard it is, they tell you about the exam, uh, they tell you about that rush leading up to the exam. But once it's over, once that weight is off your shoulders, right? When the when the when life goes back to normal, there's gotta be a moment where you have to sit down and you're gonna have to reflect and you're gonna have to ask yourself, was this just a finish line? Or is this the starting line? I'll tell you right now, it is the starting line. There's a huge difference between somebody who's had his R C D D for 20 hours compared to somebody who's had their R C D D for 20 years. Good R C D Ds, great R C D Ds, they function under the model of continuous learning. So there's a couple things I want to talk about. I want to talk about, okay, there's three ways I want to look at this. Number one, what certifications are next? The second thing I want to look at is what positions are there you really want to pursue now that you got your RCDD. And then I want to finish the show up with how can you pay it forward? That is the key. Paying it forward. So let's talk about what certification do you want to pursue next. The RCDD, again, like I said, is the starting line. Now, most people don't necessarily start with just their RCD. Some people start with the one of the installation credentials, the installer copper, the installer fiber, the technician, and then they move their way to the RCDD. I kind of did mine backwards. I did the RCDD first, and then I went back and got my tech certification. And it's just because of because of the pathway that I was on at the time. But again, the RCDD is the foundation. You can't build a good house if you don't have a solid foundation. Now there's lots of options. I'm gonna give you options within Bixie and without outside of Bixie. Because again, you really need to sit down and think about where or what position you want to set yourself up for. Don't get the training. Listen to this. Don't get the training for the job you have today. Get the training for the job that you want tomorrow. Okay, so you gotta think about you gotta sit down, do your three-year plan, your five-year plan. Yes, you should have a career plan. You should be thinking about where you want to be five years down the road, not just where you want to be down, you know, five weeks down the road. Because if you're doing five weeks down the road, you're always gonna be chasing your tail and you'll be wasting a lot, a lot of energy. So let's talk about some of the Bixie options. I already mentioned that after I got my RCDD, I went to my Bixie technician next. But you can still do installer copper, you can still do installer fiber. The benefits of getting those certificates, see, a lot of people kind of get confused. They think, well, Chuck, the RCD is above that. No, it's a different certification. The installer copper, the installer fiber, and the technician are technique field level certifications on actually how to do the work. The RCDD is, as the name says, a design certification. They complement each other, they're not, they don't replace each other. So for me, if I am a customer looking to have an RCD do a design for me, and I see they got their field certification, well, there's installer cop or installer fiber, and their RCDD, and I got another bid coming in that's coming just from an RCDD, I might give a little bit more weight to the person who's got the certification from the field experience. There are people whose career path does not include any type of field work. I I firmly believe, and let me know in the comments if you agree with me here or not, but I firmly believe in order to be a good designer, a great designer, you have to pull cable. You have to have terminate cable. You've had to go back and fix jacks because somebody on your crew terminated them A instead of B. What is the difference between A versus B? Right? Those are the kinds of things I think the the RCD with that field certification, the designer with that field certification is a much better designer because you can they can think about all the nuances of the design that somebody who's never installed anything before has never even thought of. You know, back when I first got my RCD, way back before that's 1999, in the in the previous century, that's how old I am, right? There was a lot of people at the time working for distribution. I won't say, but we all know who the big ones are. They were working for distribution, they were great at memorizing part numbers, they were great at memorizing customers' names and their wives' names and their children's names, so they would memorize the TDM to get the RCDD to help them get their foot in the door to make more sales. But then when they got to ask the actual questions, hey, can I use a multi-mode connector on a single mode fiber? They couldn't answer that question. They got kind of confused because they would never spend one moment in the field. So, in my honest and my humble opinion, having your RCD is a great certification to have, but you really need to follow it up with something else. Because just like when you build a house, you're gonna build the foundation, you gotta put up walls, you gotta put in a door, you gotta put a roof on that sucker, or use the roof off the sucker. I'm sorry, so you're my age there. Yes, so you it's only it's just a first step, and the the field certifications is gonna over that path. But what if, what if, because you know, you see lots and lots of posts. I watched a webinar today, uh, but the last two years, all we've heard about is AI data centers and how making more of them, how they're doing edge data centers, micro data centers, right? So maybe you might want to be start thinking about if that's your pathway, instead of going the field route, maybe going for your DCDC certification, data center design consultant, right? That's gonna help you, you know, get towards that certification. If you like, again, doing cable and projects, maybe consider doing your RTPM, your registered telecommunications project management certification. If you start doing a lot of outside plant, you might want to look at your OSP certification. And they're they've broken those up recently within the last year or so. Bob, if you're listening, yes, let's get this conversation back on track.

SPEAKER_01: 10:27

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But Bixie's doing micro certifications for the for the outside plant stuff. So you have a certification for aerial, certification for berries, certification for um underground. And your certifications aren't limited just to the Bixie certifications. There are other certifications. There's a lot of people in our industry who instead of wanting going the RTPM route, they want to get their PMP certifications, their project management professional certification. That's a project management certification that is on steroids. Steroids when you compare it to the RTPM. See the RTPM, that that project management certification is geared specifically for this industry. This industry. Now, can you take skills learned in your RTPM to another industry? Yes, you can. Can you take the PMP skills that you learn from your certification process and apply it to our industry? Yes, you can. But if you have the choice between driving a uh Pinto to you know around the Indianapolis 500 or a race car, which would you rather go around that racetrack in? I don't know about you, but I'd rather go around it in the in the race car because it's fine-tuned for racing. And that PMP pairs nicely with the RCD, especially if you're deciding to go down that project management route. See, project management is not the end of the line either. See, a lot of people don't think about that. They think the PMP is the end of the line. No, you have project managers, you have program managers, and then you have operations management. And that's all part of that pathway. The PM, the project management is the very first step towards that pathway. See, again, think of it this way: the RCD is the root ball of the tree. This branch goes towards project management, this branch goes towards design and estimating, that branch goes towards uh training, this branch goes towards quality, this branch goes towards, you know, um maybe product management. There's another one for a lot of people think about. The RCD is just the very, very beginning of that. And this is why I said you really, you really want to start thinking about this before you get, you can do it while you're studying, but you really want to make sure that you start this planning process of what you're gonna do with that RCD month, two months, three months before you actually achieve it. There are a lot of people that also will, instead of going toward those routes, they'll go towards the computer networking certifications. Now, this is not my forte, but there are a lot of computer certifications that you can get. And there's a lot of great people out there putting out great content about this, like Ed the Old Tech Guy, The Beard of Knowledge, Packet Tracer, Um, Colonel Dump. They all talk about computer certifications. And because when you start asking me which computer certification is better than the next, which one's up to date, which one's outdated, I don't know. I'm just a knuckle-dragon cable guy. I'm the guy you want pulling the cable, terminating cable, and testing cable. So you might want to start thinking about okay, do I want to go through maybe get some cybersecurity fundamentals? Because a lot of people are installing camera systems and other systems that where cybersecurity becomes a primary concern. You might want to think about maybe doing uh the certification through Comp T or maybe getting a security plus certification, right? All these matters for all these certifications are really going to matter for that project manager or even that estimator. So, how are you going to pick the next credential without losing your mind? There's a lot of people I know. A lot of people who listen to the show, they suffer from analysis paralysis. They think about it and they think about it and they think about it, and they spin themselves up in a worried mess and they don't make any progress. So, really, again, I mentioned it earlier. The first thing you want to do is make a goal, map it out. And realistically, I mentioned a five-year goal earlier, but you really need to have a short, a middle, and a long-term goal. The short goal is going to be where do you want to be in two years? So, right now, if you're studying for your RCD and you're a tech out in the field, maybe you might want to be a lead tech or a project foreman. That would be your two-year goal. Or maybe your five-year goal would be to be a project manager. Your ten-year goal might want to be to be an operations manager. And that's only going down one branch of that tree that I talked about earlier. What you really got to do is you have to evaluate how much time, how much energy, how much money, and is all of this work and this effort and this financial commitment, is it really gonna honestly pay off? That's where you really need to do your research and look at what roles, what what what functions do those roles have to do? Is that something you do? If you hate computers, you just you know, you're kind of the person who you just absolutely hate computers, you might not want to be an estimator because you're gonna spend a lot of time in spreadsheets, a lot of time in Word documents, a lot of time in simply uh Revit or AutoCAD. If you love computers, then that might be might want to be the route. What you don't want to do, and sometimes I struggle with this because sometimes I feel that I do this. You don't want to be just someone who collects letters at the end of their name. We've all seen the LinkedIn profiles, we've all seen them. They'll put their name up and they have 17 letters after their name for all the different certifications. Well, that's great if you're doing something with it. But if you're just doing it just as to get to like you click you collect miniature, you know, Russian wooden dolls. Was it doing you any good? You really need to make sure, oh about you, but I've only got one life. I've only got a certain amount of, I've only got 24 hours in the day. I only have seven days in a week. I want to make sure that the time, the energy, and the resources that I spend on any certification is trying to get me towards my 10-year goal. My 10-year goal. That's what you want to think about. Because once you start sh once you once you sharpen your resume with the with the your recent credentials, now let's talk about where all this new credentialing, all the horsepower from this credentialing can actually take you.

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So I use the analogy of that tree. Right? So one branch would be what uh what I would call the operations branch, right? So you got your RCD, you know, you might want to start to think about maybe getting some soft skills. If you don't, if you don't get if I said if you don't know computers, take a class on using Microsoft, you know, Word, Excel spreadsheets. Because as a project manager, you're gonna be spending a lot of time in that. So you that's one role. You can go from getting your RCD, you can go start looking at RCDE roles. I mean, start looking at project management roles. And that's as I said, that's what the next step on that would be to think about which credential is gonna help you fine-tune that RCE credential that you just got. If you want to go down the other branch, estimating and design, I've been down this branch. Actually, I've been down the the project management branch too. I kind of personally I like the estimating branch a little bit better than the project management branch. And let me tell you why. One of the things a project manager learns pretty quickly is people don't work as hard as you do sometimes. People don't have the same attention to detail that you do from time to time. And sometimes being a project manager, you feel like you're hurting cats, right? And sometimes you don't know where you don't know where all your cats are, and sometimes you you feel like some of the cats really aren't cats. Being a project manager, you're managing people. You gotta love managing people because there's a lot of stuff that goes along with that. That's why when I went down the when I went down the estimation design branch, I loved that because most of the time, again, again, that that branch starts at you being your own, being an estimator, but then you might become a division estimator or head estimator for a company. So that that's even got it's got long-term goals there as well. So you gotta be good at really turning those drawings into deliverables. I loved I love being an estimator because when I would do projects, I could really see how my design came to life. Came to life. And and there's a lot of things that can happen there that that just make you proud because it's like the bricklayer. I I built I built that building, I built that building, I did the cabling for it. Right? RCDDs are heavily recruited for by design build firms. And just again, if you just got your RCD and you start because you will once you get your RCD initially and you post it out there, you will start getting some job offers. Trust me, you will start getting some job offers. And just keep in mind that when you when you fill out that resume, when you fill out that the job application for, make sure you tell them, look, I just got my RCD. Be honest with them, be up front with them. Another branch, I didn't I didn't mention this one, sales. There's a lot of people who have been doing sales and they understand that customers have come to learn to trust all those letters behind your name. And if you have the RCDD behind it, that gives you I don't want to say instant credibility, but it did it does give you credibility, and because well, maybe it does give you instant credibility. But the the key is it gives you the chance to put your foot in the door, they're gonna be more likely to listen to your solutions, let you explain your solutions, and maybe maybe not chase the cheap contractors because this is this person who designed this was an RCVD. You become what I would like to call a trusted advisor, trusted advisor. And you and especially if you come from the field, now you have the ability to translate the field into the design, into business altogether. I've I know people in our industry, in this low voltage industry, who function in the sales component of this industry, making over$200,000. Let that sink in. Another route you might want to go for is maybe thinking about working for a manufacturer. You heard me right, a manufacturer. A lot of people don't really consider that route, but manufacturing teams, they need they need the manufacturers, they need people to develop products, and somebody who has real world experience, real world expertise, can really help a lot, especially when it comes to, for example, like being uh the support when somebody calls in and asks about products. Well, can I use a cat 5e connector on a cat 6 cable? Yeah, you can, but you're only gonna get cat 5e performance, right? They have those sales departments of the support departments, or you might even become applications engineering where you might actually get to go to meetings with the with the sales force to meet with customers and they look at you to answer all of the heavy technical questions. Or a lot of the manufacturers have some type of training programs for for their contractors. You might because you have your RCD, you might be able to function in that that sales role or that training role, the technical training roles, which is what I do during my day job. I love the training part of it, and the beautiful thing about being a trainer is you cement the knowledge that you already have. I I I just wrote an article for for my day job today, uh, using some notes for an episode I was going to do, but I wrote it for my day job. And in one of the things I mentioned in there, I didn't say in this word, but dad always used to say, and learning you teach, and teaching you learn. Meaning, if you learn something, immediately go back and try to teach it to somebody else. Because teaching it to somebody else really solidifies that knowledge for you, and it helps it helps make you because not two people learn the exact same way. So you might have to change your verbiage when talking to someone who's a three-year veteran of the field or somebody who's an engineer. So it gives you the ability to figure out how to explain it in different levels, and that just helps increase your knowledge of it. Another branch is the uh the quality assurance branch. So you can start off with now that you got your RCD, you might want to become a QA inspector. A QA inspector, you go out and look at the jobs, you make sure that they, you know, that the rats are at least three feet off the wall, and and then the the cable's at least, you know, uh three inches off the ceiling tiles and the the jail's are you know no more than five feet apart because you know all that information because you studied for it and you learned it in your RCDD. Okay, so become that inspector. And when you become that when you're an inspector with that certification, again, when you're out there talking their field, especially if you've got that Bixie Tech or installer copper, installer fiber certification behind it, that's gonna give you credibility with the field staff, especially if if they watched you progress through your career path, if you stayed with the same company the entire time, if you came come into a new company as a Q inspector, they're not gonna know you from Adam. So they're gonna really look at first thing they're gonna look at is does this person have credentials? And then they're gonna say, okay, because not everybody has credentials is smart about installation, but if you got field credentials and the RCDD, and then you're doing the QA expansion, you tell them, hey, look, um, we've done we did this wrong, and here's why it's wrong, and here's the way to correct that. It might help that might help grease that wheel so that field staff listens to you. Again, the QA inspector is just the first stop on that branch. The next stop you might become the the person who runs the QA program for your company, where you have multiple QA inspectors reporting to you. It's all about creating consistency and quality baselines across all of the crews because poor quality people won't realize the amount of money people could get that contractors lose because of poor quality. Because number one, you got to go back and fix it. And when you're going back to fix something that you should have done right on the first time, your company's taking a hit on that loss because you're supposed to be on another job generating revenue. Okay, so you take they're taking that double hit. And how tell me tell me in the comments below, if you know how to do this, how do you calculate the loss of confidence with your customers? You just can't. It's just really hard to do. And then another branch, so the final branch I want to talk about on this this tree, and I didn't mention this one either: consulting or owner rep work. See, the way that our a lot of things function within our industry is when you go to buy your cable and your connectors, you're typically buying them from distribution. Well, distribution buys it from the manufacturer, but there's also usually a rep firm that will come out and and and help customers as well, too. So that might even help you with that role to become go to work with a rep firm, you know, doing consult or become a consultant, a standalone consultant. There's a lot of people I know in this industry who have their own consulting groups and uh they don't work for their own rep firms. So now we talk about what credentials you should be pursuing, what jobs you might have been opening up for you. Now let's talk about paying it forward. This is where the credentialing matter really, really helps. There's a there's a couple different methods here. Number one, mentorship. Mentorship, listen to me closely. Become a mentor. Bixie has a mentorship program. A lot of companies have mentorship programs, even if they don't have one, just put out on LinkedIn. Say, hey, look, I'm looking to mentor somebody. I got my RCD. Let me know if you need help. You will find somebody to mentor. Helping the next generation avoid the mistake that you made, you're gonna make a huge impact. That's the whole reason for my podcast. I want you to learn from the mistakes that I made so you don't repeat them. The beautiful thing about being a mentor, I can be Chuck, I thought I just brand spanking new RCDD. I who could I mentor? How about mentoring the person who is dreaming of becoming an RCDD? How about mentoring the person who's dreaming of becoming their becoming a CFOT? Someone who's dreaming of becoming a project manager or professional. Everybody can be a mentor. The only person who can't really be a mentor is the first person, it's their first day on the job and their first day in the industry. I've had people with literally two or three years' experience mentor people, brands making new people. You can always mentor people. And mentorship also accelerates your own mastery. It helps because people outside of the box, when they look in and they question why are you doing it that way, the wrong answer is we've always been doing it that way. Always listen to your mentees because you will learn as a mentor. That's a learning relationship on both sides of that coin. Another avenue that you might want to consider in giving back is volunteering with one of the many, many committees, the many task groups that Bixie has. They are always looking for subject matter experts to either help write, help review, help shape the future of this industry. You don't need to wait for the conference. You know, people say, Well, I'll look it up when I go to the conference. You can look up, you can go to the Bixie website right now and find the links there. I'll probably put in the in the comments below, in the in the summary section below, where you can find that. Where you can actually go and volunteer. And you don't you don't necessarily have to be an RCDD to do that. You might even want to consider doing committee work for one of the ANSI committees. They influence the industry direction. Because again, you have codes, standards, and best practice manuals. Bixie does the best practice manuals and some standards. ANSI does the standards. Sometimes the manuals match up with the standards, sometimes they don't. And there's and there's there's reasons for why sometimes they don't. I'll have to do a show on that separately later on. But why not why not turn your field experience into written standards? Right? Because it's again, it it's this is the long game of building authority. If you are if you are if your name is in the in the anzi standards as one of the contributing members, as your if your name is in the the the T DMM or the or the it's a manual as one of the contributing people, how much of a boost does that give you on your resume or your your job application? Or if you've got if you've satisfied with your current job, if you are submitting to do work for a for uh a new customer, right? You're not just an RCD, you're actually an RCD who helps shape the direction of the industry because your name is in the book. In the book. Now, the Bixie committees, there's no cost doing it. The ANSI committees, I do believe there's a cost, a yearly cost to uh to do that, to contribute to those programs. And I don't remember what it is. I remember I talked to Jonathan Ju, oh gosh, two years ago, three years ago. Jonathan, if you listen to the show, I need you back on the show. We got to talk about this. Um, I remember I think it was about$1,200. Um, but you get free copies of the standards and stuff like that. So it's worth your while. You might even want to consider you know, contributing content to the industry. Like I do. I do videos, I do audio, I do audio files, I do lunchbox learnable, I do blog posts. I see a lot of people start to do more and more blog posts on LinkedIn. Again, one of the blog posts I saw inspired this video. It helps normalize those best practices and it helps it helps the industry because you're sharing the knowledge that you built, and especially if you got a great reputation, that's gonna help all the all the more. You might even want to help create study groups for aspiring RCDDs, maybe even do uh do two local meetups. I try to do meetups when I'm traveling. Last year wasn't a good traveling year for me. I didn't travel that much. Um, hopefully it'll increase more. But yeah, if you do local meetups, meet with other people, help network, that's going to make this industry a better, better industry. The RCDs, it's not the trophy, it's not the finish line, it's the key that opens the door that starts the rest of your career. So don't put your your RCD up on the shelf and watch it collect dust. That's that's not what that certification is for. It can open the right doors, it can help you not just open them doors, but walk through them doors and bring people with you. That especially in that third, the last section I talked about is paying it forward. If the ICT industry grows, you grow with it. So use those letters, honor those letters, and help the next person earn their letters. Until next time, knowledge is power.