From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2008 - 16:04:07 ARST
Wow,
This looks like a Tasmanian devil in a tornado!
You're 33. If you are going to be a doctor here, what is your legal status?
Permanent resident? Is that enough to become a licensed MD?
First of all, you are too smart to be a network engineer. You should either
stay in school until you get a degree so you can be a VP type, or just do
your pre-med/med/residency/boards and become a doctor.
By the time your 40 (just 7 short years) the cost of living in Boston could
be so high, that even as a CCIE you wouldn't have much of a life. You're
going to need that big check to live anywhere respectable (I had to get a
cat in 2004 for the mice, LOL!)
An about you're girlfriend... I've been there done that. Her loss. Not
your's. Don't kill yourself over nothing. We're just ghosts floating around
this world, bouncing off each other. Nothing is permanent. Nothing here
means anything. This is all just temporary. Whether you die tonight or 100
years from tonight, it makes no difference. Trust me. Nobody really really
cares. It's just you, god, and your plans. Any woman, child or friend that
comes in to your circle can stay or go. Next time you break up with
someone, head to the beach. Be there alone. Realize that that scene has
occurred for 2 billion years. Now tell me how important we are.
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of John
Curtis Gibson
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:54 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Have the number for 4 months, finished 1 semester in college as
freshman, GPA 3.70
Biology major, 5 classes 11 credits in one semester. I can be on my way to
become a MD. But I need more money for that. Now I work half time making a
quarter of what CCIE is worth. It is winter vacation now. I went to see a
recruiting agent today in Boston. They were confused about my situation. I
managed to tell them I want to work for a hospital's IT/networking, because
that will look good in my medical school application. Now I am home and I
can't decide which way I want to go - becoming a doctor or a network
engineer. My title right now is software engineer, but I am more like a
network engineer. 2 months before I got the number, my girlfriend dumped me.
I used my girl friend's last name when I applied for the green card. So, her
last name became my legal last name. She couldn't stand the stress when all
I talked about was CCIE lab for more than 2 years spending lots of money and
still couldn't tell her how certain I was about passing the exam. Now, I am
33, and I am a
college freshman. I got straight A's in science classes. I just went to
school to withdraw from the university. It is a top 200 school (in the US)
but given my grade I could transfer to top a 100 school.
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