From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2008 - 05:56:47 ARST
I'm in your boat Dane. I also recently passed the r&s lab, and want to get
another one done asap.
I would only offer this; I think the voice track is HEAVILY user facing,
especially if you are a consultant. A phone on someone's desk is a very very
personal, heavily used tool at most companies. You will spend a lot of time
helping users reset their voice mail passwords, modifying soft keys, etc.
forget any special documentation you could create to help them, especially
big shots, they will want personal "code blue" service. I really don't want
to get my voice ccie and spend 10 years walking from desk to desk, the
Monday after a voip deployment and helping people get accustomed to their
new phones, video phones, and soft phones (I would rather work at kfc).
That being said, I would say if you are just planning to work as a wage
slave (read IRS form 1040) at a big company or Cisco parter that designs,
deploys voice solutions, its possible there will be people on your team more
junior to you to help do the user facing stuff. But be warned, I have met
several voice ccie's who had the voice end of the job, etc. where I have
worked. They definitely faced a lot of users. So I call this the "only user
facing ccie". Now with security it's all done stealth in the back room, and
no one needs to be walked through setting their "ASA FW PASSWORD", etc.
I'm doing both, because I want 2 more stars on my uniform, but that's me.
As far as financial outlook, that impossible for anyone to say. You can have
neither and can make more than two people having one each, or you can make
only a paltry $100k (or less) having both. Money is in the hand of the
entrepreneur, all else get money from his hands, when he sees fit.
-Joe
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Dane
Newman
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:45 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: So which is there more of a market demand for?
So in your view which is in demand more in the job market? CCIE voice or
CCIE Security?
I am sure I am going to try my hand at both someday but for the time being
Im trying to figure out which one will be the best to start out with?
Dane
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