From: Robert Thompson (rthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 11:53:44 GMT-3
Well, I'm impressed. Very well done.
Once Upon a Time (i.e. a fairy story, but a true one) -
I had my management choose a girl over a guy in selecting a contractor
and she later found out and asked me why (the guy was better on paper)
and I told her "well, I told my management that girls have to be twice as
smart as guys in this job and we'd be stupid ourselves not to pick the
smartest employee available". Close to the truth, and management bought
that argument and signed her up (I had phrased it a little bit differently).
Norma adds another example to this ^_^
Anyone who complains there aren't enough high level IT staff is obviously
just looking in the wrong place to find the talent.
Now what has to be done is get all those other secretaries out there
into action, although I suspect not all will get their CCIEs as quickly.
And if we do get the secretaries in this will coincidentally help fix one
of my
long standing gripes about the IT industry - not enough [cute] girls.
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At 02:14 AM 23/08/2001 -0500, Norma Schutt wrote:
>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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