From: Syv Ritch (syv@911networks.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 17:14:16 GMT-3
On Sunday, March 09, 2003, Jim Brown wrote:
There are many people with 10 years experience. The one with
1 time 10 years experience and
10 times 1 year experience
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JB> I also know individuals who have years of experience on their resume and
JB> aren't as competent as you would think.
JB> They basically know how to open a TAC case.
JB> -----Original Message-----
JB> From: Richard Danu [mailto:rdanu@apex3.com]
JB> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:03 PM
JB> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
JB> Subject: CCIE Professional
JB> Dear members,
JB> Excuse the overhead - Please reply off-line.
JB> The day I stepped in to the IT arena, I worked with an individual who
JB> was
JB> working for his CCIE (today he is # 5761). I remember him
JB> enthusiastically
JB> talking about a box with 2 Ethernet ports and amazing things it could
JB> do.
JB> (how boring -- I thought!).
JB> Today, I am also working on my CCIE certification. Trapped in the world
JB> of
JB> Microsoft and the never-ending support of our typical (average) users
JB> with
JB> challenges on printing problems among may others, I am faced with one
JB> of
JB> the toughest dilemmas: how can one, who is motivated and gives up
JB> precious
JB> time with family and friends studying internetworking and potentially
JB> benchmark, can find themselves working among professionals such as
JB> yourself,
JB> with literally non-existent experience with production
JB> internetworking/Cisco
JB> gear. I have been watching this list for several months, and while
JB> overwhelming, topics are very interesting...
JB> Truth of the matter is, if an individuals can potentially pass and
JB> attain
JB> their CCIE, while continuously practicing on routers as a "hobby", how
JB> could
JB> they ever find themselves in the job market as internetworking
JB> professionals
JB> in a production environment?
JB> In my opinion, passing a CCIE examination hardly measures up to veterans
JB> who
JB> have worked long hours and solved an array of vast, tough, challenging,
JB> problems on internetworking, for numerous, counting years... I am simply
JB> looking for feedback what some of you have done to move from the bottom,
JB> to
JB> the prestigious network engineers you are, today!
JB> Again, my apologies for the off-topic question.
JB> -- Richard Danu
-- Thanks syv@911networks.com
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