From: Scott Morris (swm@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 12:18:27 GMT-3
Well, given the market, I'd suggest you evaluate your goals...
Is passing the CCIE lab really going to assist you down the line? How
long can you "survive" without a job? Assume that your employer won't
really be cool about you working part time. If you work 60+ hours a
week currently, and want to shift to something part time, they probably
won't be overly keen on accomodating that. I could be wrong.
In any event, what many of us do (or did) was use personal time. That
means nights and weekends and time when you aren't working. If you want
it bad enough you'll make it work. If you really want to cut your job
back and increase debt instead of employment, that's certainly a choice
you have to make, just not one I would recommend. :)
Now, if you look at the "I made it" messages, you'll see that most
people thank their wives and families. The reason for this is the
intense amount of "personal time" necessary to study for the CCIE lab.
It's also why CCIE's are "the few, the proud, those with no social life"
(grin).
It's a lot of work, but like my grandfather used to say, "hard work was
never easy". So I guess weigh everything out in terms of costs and
benefits and make the decision that's right for you. If you think that
passing your CCIE will be your magic ticket to something when you're
done (hence the motivation to not pay bills, etc.) then I sincerely hope
you are not sadly mistaken about it...
Enjoy.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Michael Schwarz
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:31 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: OT: Not enough time to study
Sorry for the OT but I know there are other ccie-to-be's that have
wondered this same thing... looking for opinions from my peers and
hopefully hear some advice from experience.
Ive been a network engineer working with cisco products for 6 years.
If one's goal is simply to pass the ccie lab exam would it be more
helpful
to:
1) Stay working 60hours/week at your job that allows only trivial
exposure to routing/switching and wastes your time doing other
mind-numbing IT tasks or
2) Work PT and spend much more of your time and energy working thru
practice labs and scenarios on your home lab or renting rack time
Goal here is not to pay bills or play it safe in this job market.... but
to pass this thing
michael
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