From: Stephen Oliver (stevie_oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 09:26:53 GMT-3
I bet your speed typing secretarial skills were helpful.
Maybe we should all start as secretaries.
Stevie
>From: Ma Gang <matthen@zisco.com.cn>
>Reply-To: Ma Gang <matthen@zisco.com.cn>
>To: "'Norma Schutt'" <nschutt@smc.sns.slb.com>, ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: CCIE 8063
>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:18:02 +0800
>
>Well, what a great job you did. Congratulations!!!
>By looking at me, a ex-programmer started from 1992 and network guy from
>1996. Although got CCNP and CCDP in hand, I still feel you are running long
>way out there.
>I have to work more harder, just by starting to read Halabi the 3rd time.
>
>Regards
>
>Matthew Ma
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Norma Schutt [mailto:nschutt@smc.sns.slb.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:15 PM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: CCIE 8063
>
>
>Ok, my turn, my turn.
>
>I passed today in San Jose on my second attempt. It's strange. I keep
>thinking I'm going to wake up in the morning and find out this is only a
>dream. I think I'm the first female CCIE employed by Schlumberger. I'll
>find out later when I get back to work.
>
>There were three people from Day 1 who made it to Day 2 in my group. The
>weird thing is that all three of us got our numbers today. That was really
>cool.
>
>The only advice I can give to people is to reread your foundational books
>such as Doyle and Halabi. I got so much more out of reading those again
>the second and third time through. I continued to learn tidbits even
>though I thought I already knew most of it. And practice, practice,
>practice. Be able to configure this stuff in your sleep because you won't
>have time to figure it out then, yada yada yada. You've heard this all
>before.
>
>Don't ever think you can't do this. It can be done. Two years and nine
>months ago I quit my secretarial job because the pay sucked ($27k/yr) to
>change careers and go into the IT field. See, I'd heard about this thing
>called MCSE that paid about 10 grand more a year as a starting salary than
>I was currently making. So, I quit my job and went through the Microsoft
>classes and got my first job on a help desk in May, 1999. In August three
>months later I got transferred from that help desk position over to the
>Cisco-outsourced helpdesk called the "TAC". But, oh gosh, I gotta learn
>about something called a router that kinda looked like a VCR. Whatever,
>the pay was better and I didn't have to listen to anyone patter on about
>not being able to get their mouse to work. But, none of my new co-workers
>cared about my shiny new MCSE, all they talked about was this thing called
>CCIE, which was something you got after you got your CCNA. Little did I
>know at the time where that fork in the road would lead and that I'd
>finally found my niche.
>
>Well it was two years ago this month that I first learned what a router was
>and how they made a network go. And look at me now. Crying on the
>proctor's shoulder this afternoon sobbing "I've got my life back!" I
>couldn't stop laughing and crying simultaneously. I'm sure they thought I
>was nuts, but, hey, I didn't care. The stress had me a bit crazy here at
>the end, anyway. And if anyone doesn't like it, I'm a CCIE and can kick
>your butt... :-)
>
>So, that's about it.
>
>Norma
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