Three semesters of community college. Forty grand in debt. Zero idea what he was doing.

In the very first episode of Hot Wired, Connor Walsh tells the story of how he went from a miserable college dropout to a fourth-year IBEW apprentice wiring the biggest buildout in America, and the exact moment, two weeks into his apprenticeship, when he knew he’d found it.

Plus: the phone call that landed him his first hyperscale data center job, and why he had no idea what he was walking into.

This is where it starts.

EPISODE 1: Two Weeks In, I Knew | How I Found the Best Job in America by Accident

Connor Walsh was three semesters into a community college degree he hated, broke and panicking, when an uncle got him a look at an electrical apprenticeship. He showed up to get his family off his back. Two weeks later, he knew he’d found the thing.

In the premiere episode of Hot Wired, Connor tells his origin story — the miserable classroom mornings, the debt, the uncle, the moment the work clicked in his hands in a way nothing ever had — and ends on the phone call that would send him to his first hyperscale data center campus.

If you’re young and stuck, or you know somebody who is, this one’s for you.

In this episode:

• Why community college wasn’t working — and what it was costing
• The uncle, the apprenticeship, and showing up for the wrong reasons
• The exact moment, two weeks in, when Connor knew
• What an IBEW apprenticeship actually is — you earn while you learn, zero debt
• The phone call: his first data center job

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