From: Matt White (mwhite23@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 22:40:10 GMT-3
I does help if it doesn't ever feel like work. At the risk of sound
like a bigger geek than I already am, I get the same feeling of
accomplishment from getting something to work for the first time as I
used to getting past the "boss" or solving an elaborate puzzle on old
Nintendo and PS-I Final Fantasy games. Just today I got a client
running dual-hub DMVPN on mGRE with HSRP/SSO client VPN endpoints on
the same pair of hub 3845's. (Bitch-of-a-thing.) Did I have any clue
how to do this at the begining of the week? Absolutely not! But it
became my obsession to figure it out. The feeling I got when I saw
the successful crypto isakmp debugs fly by was priceless, and my
heart honestly skipped a beat with excitement.
Now, some would say I'm simply crazy (my wife included) but I prefer
to call it driven. I don't have the time for 200+ hour RPG's
anymore, so this takes their place I suppose. And I get paid to do it.
Quicker example: My wife and I go to the beach; she brings the
September issue of Glamour, I bring "MPLS VPN Architechures Vol. I."
She asks me why I'm working, I reply, "I'm not."
...now if I can just pass that evil Security lab...
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On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Scott Morris wrote:
> It's an ongoing journey, that's for sure. And at times reality
> intervenes... The birth of my second daughter is why my CCIE Voice
> written
> is going to expire before I get around to taking it a *cough* third
> time...
> #$*&#$*&ing thing.
>
> But as you go through and mull though things, you get to a point in
> knowing
> stuff where it clicks together, and suddenly many things make sense
> in a
> different fashion than they did before. Sometimes you look back
> asking
> yourself how the hell you missed it! But it's all part of the
> journey.
>
> The motivation often lies in the realization of things that you
> don't know.
> And the pursuit to "fix" that. It's not always easy, and certainly
> difficult to find time! But as long as it remains fun and/or
> interesting,
> then it keeps one going. If you approach a burnout state though,
> it is
> indeed time for a break, or vacation, or some other mind-numbing
> task for a
> while (you know, that ToDo list your significant other keeps!).
>
> Always set a goal and then find the way to achieve it.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
> Behalf Of
> Thomwin Chen
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:14 PM
> To: cciein2006@yahoo.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Getting and Staying Motivated
>
> just a thought, a vacation would be nice...
>
> cciein2006@yahoo.com wrote:
> A lot of times I get so busy at work or with chores around the
> house that I
> barely have time to breath much less study. After a long day of
> staring at
> router configurations or sniffer traces at work all day the last
> thing I
> want to do is log into a router and start configuring BGP scenarios.
>
> I was just wondering - what do you guys do to stay motivated during
> the long
> journey to CCIE?
>
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