From: keith tokash (ktokash@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2007 - 13:31:10 ART
No one should feel bad about sending these. They actually help me keep up
morale in what is a very difficult marathon.
With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with
science.
--Carl Sagan
> To: Phillip.Day@telindus.co.uk
> CC: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: I don't mean to brag but.......
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:57:45 +0000
> From: gary.duncanson@googlemail.com
>
> Phillip,
>
> You are better off getting hooked by cisco than Mike Tyson anyway ;)
>
> Very well done.
>
> Regards
> Gary
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phillip Day" <Phillip.Day@telindus.co.uk>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:32 PM
> Subject: I don't mean to brag but.......
>
>
> > Ok I've finally come down from the cloud I was on when I found last night
> > that
> > I passed the R&S lab on my second attempt in Brussels. Up to now, I've
> > always
> > thought it to be a bit self-indulgent and gratuitous to post a long life
> > story
> > about yourself to a group of people that you have mostly never met, but
> > nonetheless here it is!
> >
> > I started out in Networking about half way through 2003 after giving up on
> > my
> > 8 year professional boxing career. I had realised that I probably wasn't
> > the
> > next Tyson, and as such was struggling to pay the bills. Since I didn't
> > have
> > a relevant C.V. to put out, I gradually over the next few months started
> > to
> > pad it out by studying and getting Microsoft MCPs whilst working on a
> > helpdesk. After about six months I landed my MCSE (the old-fashioned way
> > without brain dumps!) and found that I had got quite used to reading long
> > technical books, so I did a CCNA and got hooked on Cisco. Over the next
> > 2-3
> > years and 2-3 job changes I gained my CCNP, CCDP, and CCIP by reading the
> > Cisco Press books. A colleague from my current job (not naming names
> > Dave
> > M!) persuaded me that I should get the CCIE Written out of the way, and
> > study
> > with him for the lab. I did both. I used the Internetwork Expert
> > workbook
> > after realising that CBT Nuggets probably wasn't going to do the job for
> > me!
> > Then this summer I went to the NMC Bootcamp which got me practically ready
> > for
> > the real thing. After working through the NMC 'Doit' Labs which are
> > mostly
> > cruelly difficult, I felt ready for the real thing.
> >
> > I went to Brussels in August and failed fairly miserably because of the
> > pressure of the occasion and also I think I half expected to get it in
the
> > same format as a Checkit lab, which sadly it wasn't! Having dusted off
my
> > pride and got back into lab practices, I booked again for yesterday and
> > went
> > there expecting it to be less tough. It was, but still I had to work for
> > it.
> > I was still on the plane home doubting I had passed but the good news came
> > a
> > few hours later after I got home.
> >
> > I'd just like to thank the constructive posters on Groupstudy, Val, Bob,
> > Bruce
> > and Indy at NMC, The two Brians for the IE Class on Demand and finally
> > Dave
> > Mumford and the Technical Support guys at Telindus UK.
> >
> >
> > Phill Day CCIE#19190
> >
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