From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2008 - 06:41:04 ARST
What's good money?
If the economy was not in a deep R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N I would be doing a lot
better this year with a CCIE than last year with out it.
I say to people "I wish I would have gotten this thing 3 years ago". In 2005
it was easy to get $150 an hour as a CCIE, and many I know did... now I'm
having trouble even getting what I made 12 months ago as a CCNP. Lately, the
only stuff coming up is staff augmentation projects and clients that "aren't
sure" what/when they will be doing...
The capital markets are seizing up like a car kids put a 5-lb bag of
domino's sugar in the gas tank... and guess what? It's only going to get
much much worse...
So I will say
"After getting my CCIE, the ONLY reason someone should go for their CCIE is
personal satisfaction, NOT A PAY INCREASE"
Now back to dynamips and studying for the next 2.
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Galligan [mailto:pgalligan@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:48 AM
To: Scott Vermillion
Cc: nortic @hackermail.com; Joseph Brunner; Gary Duncanson; Alan Chng;
ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Moving away from Cisco
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Scott Vermillion
<scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure who you directed the money remark at.
Scott, that comment wasn't directed at you specifically. It just seems
that a lot of discussion on here is about how much CCIE's earn. The
point I was trying to make is that if money is the main motivator for
someone doing a CCIE cert, it's the wrong motivator (IMO). Sure you
can expect to get a good return on your investment in time, lab gear
etc, but you don't need the cert to make good money.
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