From: keith tokash (ktokash@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2007 - 16:45:39 ART
I am scheduled soon, and I look at it this way.
1. This is something I *need* to do to know that I can.
2. I like the idea of handing someone a business card in California, Japan,
Australia, Costa Rica... and getting instant respect.
3. If financial justification is required, just do the math.
10 attempts = $14,000 US. Add travel and hotel, etc, and bump that to $20,000
US.
There is an excellent chance you will make $20,000 more in the FIRST YEAR of
being a CCIE than you did before (assuming you're willing to jump jobs). Say
you get a 10k raise. So after about 2.5 years (taxes...) you make it all
back. Unless you plan on not re-certing this extra money will continue. The
math makes this sound like some too-good-to-be-true infomercial, until you
factor in the incredible difficulty.
Keep fighting the good fight. I work with a CCIE R&S who failed 5 times over
5 years, and he is a fantastic engineer.
With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with
science.
--Carl Sagan
> To: j.biggs@myactv.net
> CC: dennis.worth@gmail.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: 3down and ? to go!
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:12:13 +0000
> From: gary.duncanson@googlemail.com
>
> Yeah. Stick at it Dennis. You will pass in 2008.
>
> Regards
> Gary
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey Biggs" <j.biggs@myactv.net>
> To: "'Dennis Worth'" <dennis.worth@gmail.com>; "'Cisco certification'"
> <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 3:20 PM
> Subject: RE: 3down and ? to go!
>
>
> > Dennis,
> > I have taken it twice, the first time I went in expecting little and
> > did pretty well, didn't pass though. But I knew what I needed to bone up
> > on. The second time I just stunk, and was very disappointed because I
> > thought I had studied hard (obviously not). So I to had thoughts of
> > taking
> > the high road and just saying "hey, I know the technologies, why feed
> > Cisco
> > the money". But I then realized I WANT that number. I want the number
> > because it will open so many doors and it is something I started 10 years
> > ago when I started down this career path. The CCNA, the CCNP and I want
> > that CCIE if for nothing else than to say "I DID IT!!!".
> >
> > Have a few drinks, get it out of your system and JUMP back in there. It
> > is
> > too easy to quit!!!! You have heard it or read it a thousand times, no
> > one
> > likes to lose, but pony up and get back in there.......Trust me it will
> > make
> > getting that number all that much more GREAT!!!!
> >
> >
> > Winner of 2 CCIE Purple hearts
> >
> > JB
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Dennis Worth
> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:31 AM
> > To: Cisco certification
> > Subject: 3down and ? to go!
> >
> > Good Morning Fellow Candidates,
> >
> > I have say, when you feel good about it, it really sucks to see bad news.
> >
> > I finished my 3rd attempt yesterday, and I awakened to a dream that my
> > score
> > report was in. I was right, but the bad news was FAILURE!
> >
> > I've spent the last few hours pondering over what could have been missed.
> > I
> > just don't see it, and wondering if I ever will. I'm real sure the lab is
> > doable, but from my stand point, I just don't know how. My score report
> > seems to far off in 1 section, and right on in the rest. I don't know
> > where
> > to begin to pick my poison for studying again.
> >
> > I've already begun to fight again this morning on the basics, but this
> > will
> > never be enough to get me over the hump. I guess the thought of another
> > failed attempt is not very pleasing, and the cost is just starting to
burn
> > for the road to higher ground.
> >
> > Any thoughts are welcome, and in case anyone cares to know what material
I
> > use.
> >
> > I have my own lab
> > Internetwork Expert - WB, CoD, and Mock Lab WS
> > Netmasterclass - WB,QOS VoD, NMC-1, and NMC-2
> > DOC CD <-- NOT NICE!
> >
> > NOW I MUST DRINK FOR AT LEAST ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > "WILL WORK FOR CCIE" - PLEASE HELP ----DisABLED ENGINEER
> > --
> > Dennis Worth
> >
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