From: Jim Brown (Jim.Brown@caselogic.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 12:19:48 GMT-3
I also know individuals who have years of experience on their resume and
aren't as competent as you would think.
They basically know how to open a TAC case.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Danu [mailto:rdanu@apex3.com]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:03 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: CCIE Professional
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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