From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 00:27:39 ARST
I recommend (and I followed) take Tuesday-Thursday off. So you have the 3
middle days of the week to completely dive into your studies. This gives you
the weekend to be less serious about your studies (as humans naturally are
going to be). Its very hard to say "I'll just study after work, or on
weekends". You'll probably never get anything done that way. One thing that
worked wonderfully for me in the last week before the week of an attempt,
was coming in to work at 4am and cracking full-steam until 12pm noon. It
gave me my best biologically inclined focus hours to the task at hand (or
the 30+ in each IE WB VOL 2 lab).
I used the afternoon on those days to review the doc cd (and surrounding
areas) for everything I faced in my lab that day. Also I recommend NOT doing
a multicast/qos/security ONLY day. I think that softens your triathlon
ability you'll need to call in the real lab. You need to equally as good
with all facets of the CCIE coin.
Be very serious about telling your employer that "this trains pulling out of
the station" meaning its going to happen for me. The only question is
whether I'm going to stick around after it happens. I'm sure you boss can
put his ego in a tick-tack box long enough for you to grow up into a CCIE.
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
David Altoft
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 1:41 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: OT: Time off to Study
Hi,
Does anyone have any thoughts/experiences on taking time off work to study?
I am contemplating taking 2 months off work to study, though I am yet to
approach my employer. I'm not sure whether it would be an effective use of
time or whether I would burn out after a few weeks of constant study. The
other option is that I use the money that I would have lost by not working
and spend it on a bootcamp, though realistically being at the beginning of
my study rather than towards the end, I'm not sure how beneficial a bootcamp
would be. I have the IE work book and CoD so I would rather spend the time
working through those and doing some labs.
I am aware of the financial impact that this will have but I am finding that
there aren't enough hours in the day to make serious headway in the material
that I need to cover for the lab. I can imagine that most people in this
group are suffering the same time scheduling problems and wanted to hear
from anyone that has taken time off to study and whether they found it
useful or not.
Thanks,
David
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