RE: a long journey

From: Jonathan Hays (nomad@gfoyle.org)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 22:53:49 GMT-3


Congratulations, John! And thank you for the many contributions to the
list!

Jonathan Hays

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>Behalf Of matijevi@bellsouth.net
>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:06 PM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: a long journey
>
>
>Hello Team,
>A journey in networking began for me in 1995. When I was hired
>as an intern to do iventory of cabling and network cards. I
>didnt even know what a server was back then. I was in the
>middle of a big ATM LAB project for the Universtiy. I
>interviewed at Cisco Systems back in 1996, and throught that I
>had a good idea of networking. Even though I didnt get the job
>back then I knew that I wanted to learn more about networking.
>I eventually started from the ground up and learned about
>servers and networking. Even after I got CCNA and CCNP, I
>didnt think that CCIE could be that much harder, I was in for
>a big surprise. Finally, after 5 attempts and almost 2 years
>of study full time, I have achieved my goal. First of all I
>would like to thank NetmasterClass, especially Bruce Caslow,
>Val Palvichenko, Indy Teller, Alexei, Adel and Bob Sinclair,
>this is the best team I have ever worked with. I learned so
>much from this company, words just cant describe. I also would
>like to thank my stud!
> y partner for the DOIT labs William Chen, we had very
>interesting discussions of the issues of the labs. I was very
>lucky to have such a good study partner with me. I would also
>like to thank Scott Morris of IPEXPERT, he was with me from
>the beginning when I was working on the ccbootcamp labs. He
>always was available for any questions I had. Also, I listen
>to the IPEXPERT audio on the drive up to North Carolina this
>time, very entertaining for the drive. I would also like to
>thank Brian McGahan and Brian Dennis, these guys were really
>good, I really enjoyed the mock lab workshop and doing all the
>Internetworkexpert labs, these labs were also very
>entertaining. For those of you that fail the exam, I really
>think you have to dig deep within yourself, and ask yourself
>do you really want this certification. If you do then you just
>have to eat, live and breathe this stuff. As for advice for
>the exam, I would recommned to do as Bruce Caslow says "do as
>may well thought out scener!
> ios as you can". I would also highly recommned doing a mock la!
> b when y
>
>ou think you are ready for the exam. I want to thank all of
>you and what a privilege it has been to be part of a fanastic
>group. I also would like to thank Brad Ellis from ccbootcamp
>he helped me get started after I passed the written exam. I
>would also like to thank Karl Solie. I apologize if I left
>anyone else out, im sure there are others.
>Sincerely,
>John Matijevic
>CCIE #13254
>
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