From: Denise Donohue (fradendon@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 17:01:36 GMT-3
You're not limited to buying CCIE stuff from the Cisco CCIE store. You can also buy from the Cisco store at Land's End - putting your CCIE logo on is one of the options. Thus you can get (perhaps) better quality and (definitely) better variety than directly from Cisco. Plus we females can get things that actually button in the right direction!
As for the interview, assuming you're going to be wearing a suit and tie, I'd leave the bomber jacket home. Bomber jackets don't go well with suits. Plus they have your resume, which should say CCIE in neon letters at the very top! <gr> Personally, I wouldn't wear a CCIE shirt the first week or so on the job, until they get to know that you're not an ass**** who likes to show off. The bomber jacket might work, though, as long as it actually is cold enough for a heavy jacket.
If you're hanging out at Borders (personally I prefer Barnes and Noble's coffeshops), or CompUSA or someplace like that, then I'd wear the shirt. It could spark conversations that might get you some leads.
My 2 cents.....
Denise
CCIE#9566
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Larus
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: OT: Advice sought on wearing CCIE on sleeve
I have been looking at items in the CCIE store, and I like the CCIE bomber
jacket. However, as a CCIE with less than the usual amount of paid
experience (I could fairly be called a "lab rat" CCIE), I am very sensitive
to offending folks with more experience who might resent a CCIE like me
"wearing it on his sleeve." I think they actually put your number on the
sleeve, so it is the classic case of wearing something on your sleeve.
On the other hand, wearing it while I am still in the job-hunting mode could
spark up conversations with people who might know of unadvertised positions.
You know how it is hard to go to Borders' computer book section without
meeting interesting IT folks.
I will be interviewing soon for a job with a Cisco Gold Partner. Do CCIEs
in resellers actually wear CCIE gear, or is is considered tacky and
pretentious? I don't want to buy something that it turns out is frowned on
or laughed at by folks directly involved with Cisco. If the CCIE store
goods are not of good quality, that would make the decision easier.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I know that this is the sort of question I would not need to ask if I had
lots of industry experience, but I am not in a position to go back and
relive my life differently right now.
Best regards,
Tom Larus
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