From: Richard Danu (rdanu@apex3.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 03:02:53 GMT-3
Dear members,
Excuse the overhead - Please reply off-line.
The day I stepped in to the IT arena, I worked with an individual who was
working for his CCIE (today he is # 5761). I remember him enthusiastically
talking about a box with 2 Ethernet ports and amazing things it could do.
(how boring -- I thought!).
Today, I am also working on my CCIE certification. Trapped in the world of
Microsoft and the never-ending support of our typical (average) users with
challenges on printing problems among may others, I am faced with one of
the toughest dilemmas: how can one, who is motivated and gives up precious
time with family and friends studying internetworking and potentially
benchmark, can find themselves working among professionals such as yourself,
with literally non-existent experience with production internetworking/Cisco
gear. I have been watching this list for several months, and while
overwhelming, topics are very interesting...
Truth of the matter is, if an individuals can potentially pass and attain
their CCIE, while continuously practicing on routers as a "hobby", how could
they ever find themselves in the job market as internetworking professionals
in a production environment?
In my opinion, passing a CCIE examination hardly measures up to veterans who
have worked long hours and solved an array of vast, tough, challenging,
problems on internetworking, for numerous, counting years... I am simply
looking for feedback what some of you have done to move from the bottom, to
the prestigious network engineers you are, today!
Again, my apologies for the off-topic question.
-- Richard Danu
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