RE: OT: plane pilot vs CCIE

From: Anthony Sequeira (Anthony_Sequeira@skillsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 16:36:59 ART


What an incredibly motivating story!

"What one man can do, any man can do!"

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
sheherezada@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:29 PM
To: Alan Halachmi
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: OT: plane pilot vs CCIE

Speaking about medical conditions... There is a dual CCIE that is
completely blind (yup, took his CCIE in this condition). He works for
Cisco in Brussels (now he is a customer support manager, but he used
to be a TAC engineer). His name is Marian Selea.

Now this is hard...

Mihai

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Alan Halachmi <alan@halachmi.net>
wrote:
> From a pure income perspective (not amount, just the existence there
> off)...
>
> There are almost no medical conditions that will force you to stop
working
> as a CCIE. There are many condition that will force you to stop
working as
> a pilot (or at least make it hard to get a medical). I know many
heart
> attack survivors that still provide network support -- I know of no
pilots
> that survived and piloted another flight.
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, theKonqueror wrote:
>
> thekon>If you crash an enterprise network, you get fired. If you crash
a jet, you
> thekon>catch fire.... :P
> thekon>
> thekon>On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Radioactive Frog
<pbhatkoti@gmail.com>wrote:
> thekon>
> thekon>> Studing all 4 ccie's (RS/Voice/SEcurity/SP) vs learning how
to fly the
> thekon>> plane
> thekon>>
> thekon>> Does any body on this list have done both - e.g. has flown
the
> thekon>> commercials/private jet/plane and also done CCIE?
> thekon>>
> thekon>> Which one is harder?
> thekon>>
> thekon>> [I know you can't compare apple to orange but just an idea
and just being
> thekon>> curious]
> thekon>>
> thekon>> Cheers
> thekon>>
> thekon>> frog
> thekon>>
> thekon>>
> thekon>> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> thekon>>
> thekon>>



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