From: Paul Young (tsungdapaulyoung@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 17:05:55 GMT-3
Hi Aqeel:
My recommendation is proceed based on your on
personal priorities. Everyone's priorities are
different (money, job, family,...) Once you've
prioritized, the picture will be much clearer.
CCIEs salary are around $90K-$110K right now. If
you're somewhere in California like I am, my heart
goes out to you, time is tough. So hang in there
and leverage what you have, even though the equipment
prices has come down quite a bit, don't go out and max
out your credit card or take out a loan. If you're
rich, that's a different story. If your company or
friends have a rack of equipment, try to utilize it
and do as much as you can. If you have family, you
might want to prolong your CCIE plan/process (like I
am), attaining a piece of paper and loosing your
friends & family doesn't exactly represent success.
Everyone does things for different reasons,
fun/knowledge/money. No one cause is more just then
the other, it all depends what you want.
I do it for the fun and knowledge. If all you want
is money, I think there are better options.
Just my openion.
Best of luck,
Paul Young.
--- David Siwula <DSiwula@ceira.com> wrote:
> Very true!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hescock [mailto:bhescock@cisco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:15 AM
> To: Aqeel Asim
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: JOB market for CCIE
>
>
> It shouldn't matter what the job market is, you
> should want the
> CCIE cert because it's proof you are among the best
> and, better yet,
> striving for that goal is what will make you among
> the best. It's all
> about learning what you need to know to become a
> CCIE, not the piece of
> paper itself. If you're in it just for the money
> then that's the wrong
> attitude. Are you going to stop learning just
> because of the job
> market? Screw the job market, press forword. My
> $.02 anyway.
>
> Brian
>
> Aqeel Asim wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > i just wanted to know hows the current job market
> for
> > CCIEs . is it worth doing for a guy who just
> started
> > it cause it takes a lot of time and money to do
> that.
> >
> > Aqeel
> >
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