From: Tim Ross (ross2k@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 13:57:00 GMT-3
Norma,
Congratulations on your fantastic achievement. My lab in on Thursday/Friday
and I am nervous. I have been trying to convince my wife to get her CCIE
also. She is very capable (She is CNE 3,4,and 5). But after helping me study
for CCNA/CCDA/CCNP/CCDP and now CCIE, she knows how brutal the study routine
is, so she refuses. I hope Schumberger realizes that you are a rare
dedicated person and treats you as great as you deserve.
Continued success to you,
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norma Schutt" <nschutt@smc.sns.slb.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:14 AM
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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