From: keith tokash (ktokash@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 16:52:56 ARST
I'm taking the two weeks prior to my lab off, and the week before those two is
a boot camp. It took me about 6 months to fully come to terms with exactly
how slow I'm progressing through the IE labs. I average one per week (I
really research the hell out of the answers), with occasional labless weeks to
read a book or travel for work. Once you accept (resign yourself?) that you
may be doing this for the next two years you can stop can stop beating
yourself up about taking too long. At least that's how I function. A CCIE
R&S I work with told me once that the CCIE is a marathon, not a sprint, and
most people fail to get there because they give up.
As for not making enough progress each day, try waking up early and putting in
2-3 hours before work. I found that I can get some stuff done at night after
work, but I start fading pretty quick. Fresh energy in the morning lets me
pop out a section or two.
It's frustrating sometimes, looking around and thinking, "is *this* as far as
I've gone?" It's really easy to get down on yourself for not kicking enough
ass, but the reality is the material (when taken as a whole, not piecemeal) is
extremely difficult.
With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with
science.
--Carl Sagan
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:41:07 +0000
> From: davidaltoft@googlemail.com
> 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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