From: jslauer@hotmail.com
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 19:32:06 ART
agree with all below,
get the wife to buy off on this, present her with a list of benefits and
ensure she know's how much studying you'll do. Give her a study schedule and
stick too it. My wife was pregnant with our second child when I passed the
lab, it can be done. Just handle the situation with some tact and ensure you
are realistic in your study goals. Trying to pack too much into a 24-hour
day is not a recipe for success.
Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Morris" <smorris@ipexpert.com>
To: "'James Russell'" <osuphd2b@yahoo.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:10 PM
Subject: RE: Feeling overwhelmed
> You definitely do not have an easy time on your hands!
>
> The best thing I can tell you to do is to sit down and talk with your
> wife.
> She'll eventually get into a "nesting" phase and want to spell out in
> detail
> everything going on in your life (I can only compare this to like a
> personal
> ISO certification process!). Talk to her ahead about a plan for studying
> and give structure to it.
>
> The structure to studying may help you out a lot as well, but having the
> buy-in from your wife will help to reduce a certain set of stress anyway.
>
> From a budget standpoint, don't expect to pass the first time. But what I
> would do is to make sure you at least have one good/valid attempt before
> the
> baby comes along. If nothing else, you can validate things you do know
> and
> separate the fears from reality about what the lab is really like.
>
> Then revisit your structure and how your time works in with house, wife,
> baby, etc.
>
> Having kids will certainly rearrange your study time, but not necessarily
> kill it. But in the very beginning, you're going to have strange
> hours/interruptions by the little one wanting to eat. From a parenting
> skill standpoint, I can suggest that working that baby into a schedule as
> best as you can from the very beginning will actually make your life much
> easier! My little ones (almost 3 and 2 now) were sleeping through the
> night
> by 8-9 weeks old. (Sleep deprivation is used by some cultures as a form
> of
> torture you know!)
>
> But anyway, still through all of this, managing your expectations of study
> time versus family time is important as well as managing your wife's
> expectations is equally important. While nobody has done any official
> study
> about the number of people who got a divorce/breakup prior to earning
> their
> numbers, it certainly is a contributing factor!
>
> Best of luck on all fronts there!
>
>
> Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE
> #153, CISSP, et al.
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> James Russell
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: OT: Feeling overwhelmed
>
> This is sort of OT, but I was wondering what everyone does when they feel
> overwhelmed with studying for the lab. I just passed the written on Feb
> 3rd, and have been studying 30+ hours a week ever since. I'm learning a
> ton
> along the way, but sometimes I feel like I have no prayer of learning
> enough
> to pass. I am scheduled to take the lab on July 6th, but I may not take
> it
> then.
>
> How do you deal with the stress of studying, work, family, etc? My wife
> is
> pregnant with our first child, we are in the process of buying a house,
> and
> I'm trying to pass this lab. I guess I just wonder sometimes if it is
> worth
> it or if I should wait a year before attempting it. Thanks for letting a
> newbie vent.
>
>
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