From: Anekwe, Abdul (Abdul.Anekwe@sig.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 12:01:23 ART
Joe, your right. I couldn't agree with you more. Pound for pound, if its
about money, then the big cities, East West, have it. What cities like
Seattle (and no, I'm not calling Seattle small, but...in reference to
cities like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, ..its small), have is a
different quality of life. Not saying you can't get that in the big
cities as well.
It's all a matter of choice and perspective.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Joseph Brunner
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:36 AM
To: swm@emanon.com; 'darth router'; 'Cisco certification'
Subject: RE: Service Provider jobs vs Enterprise
People always try to throw that out there Scott, "well you pay so much
more
taxes"... 80% of our taxes are FEDERAL and that means if you live in
Busterville, AL, you are still on the hook for the same taxes as me
living
in Manhattan... That being said, NY State/City Tax is 10% on under 200k.
So
do you think I can earn more than 10% here than elsewhere?
Count on it.
And my rent is less than most anyone's mortgage around the country.
Considering I have $80 a month in transportation costs (metrocard). I'm
not
buying gas and no car payment/insurance. So I recommend to anyone who
wants
to make big $$$$ and live pretty cheap- try the big city. I have a 5 or
6 to
1 earning to expense ratio.
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Morris [mailto:swm@emanon.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:02 AM
To: 'Joseph Brunner'; 'darth router'; 'Cisco certification'
Subject: RE: Service Provider jobs vs Enterprise
Where you increase your tax basis and severly increase your cost of
living
so that your take-home/disposable income is less? :)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Joseph Brunner
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:13 AM
To: 'darth router'; 'Cisco certification'
Subject: RE: Service Provider jobs vs Enterprise
Where are you located? 100k? We have help desk staff that make that!
Are you kidding? The CCIE is worth about 170k plus 30% bonus...
Move to a major city (NYC, LONDON, BERLIN)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
darth router
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:31 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Service Provider jobs vs Enterprise
Hey guys,
I have worked at a small ISP (about 20k customers). I was not payed all
that
well. Now I have a CCIE, and am wondering do the service provider jobs
pay
vs the Enterprise jobs? I would love to get around 100k, and not have to
travel. It seems that the majory of CCIE jobs I see on the various jobs
sites all pay around 100k, some more some a little less. The CCIE gets
you
treated pretty well if you work for a cisco reseller. Can anyone tell me
the
pros and cons to working for a service provider with a CCIE? Are there
still
a lot of service providers that even want CCIEs? from the very limited
view
I have on service providers it seems like many are moving away from
cisco
gear in favor of other vendors. I would love some advice here. I just
got my
CCIE and I feel like I am just starting to finally get somewhere in my
career. I want my next job to the the right job, and a job I want to
stick
with for some years.
DR
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