From: NSN - CO/Santa Fe de Bogota ("Gutierrez,)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 13:30:41 ART
Congratulation indeed, this kind of stories are what could really
motivate people to push it till the end, not every body has the same
variables in life however when there is a goal between your eyes there
is nothing can discourage you from achieving the goal, now is your time
to take a brake and enjoy,
Regards,
Rodrigo
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>Behalf Of ext Leo Leung
>Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:06 AM
>To: Cisco certification
>Subject: CCIE journey raised me to become an accountable
>network engineer (CCIE# 22227)
>
>Dear GS members,
>
>I passed the lab last Wed. on Oct.1, 2008.
>
>Before I first sat R&S lab in 2005, I had 10 years voice
>experience and got my CCNA/CCNP. I was surprised with the
>report shown "0%" in many sections. I asked myself did I
>forget to save config? Yes, I did save; but no, I totally
>underestimated the lab as I studied only from Cisco websites
>without taking any vendors workbooks. Then I realized I need
>to change my way of thinking to look for help; you see CCIE
>journey began transforming me. I got IPexpert and ccbootcamp
>workbooks and found myself pretty much relied on solution
>guide, meaning I was unable to perform a lab section myself
>and the speed was horrible. After a long while I decided to
>go to bootcamp at netmasterclass.com in early 2007 and it
>proved me that I was the worst one in the class. What
>happened? I exhausted all my savings, when I discussed it
>with my wife that only solution was to take credit card debt
>that she went for a minimum wage job to pay the interest. It
>was sad soon she got serious sick and went through 2 major surgeries in
>2006 and followed by endless medical bills. My 7-year old son
>asked me when his dream to Disneyland will become true, boy,
>I never have time to bring him to local cinema even once. My
>heart broke as I saw his tear in his eyes. At that particular
>moment an event occurred in my journey. after a mock lab I
>happened to speak with Narbik over the phone about my journey
>status. Immediately he sent me the whole OSPF section
>material for free, offered his phone number for any questions,
>but most importantly he told me that he believed my
>determination and ability to accomplish this journey. I found
>as if he looked into my eyes with the word of "you can do it".
> Since then I kept telling myself nothing can stop me from
>moving forward. Then, I was quite comfortable with his
>approach to complete each technology section in its own scope
>before ever touching a full lab. He asked me to do every
>section 4 times and make sure no question you are not aware of.
>Man, I doubled that; I valued his books more than gold, no kidding.
>Please, please I do not mean to devaluate any other vendor's
>workbooks. It was my understanding level at early stage of
>the journey did not come up to that height and different
>people have different ways of learning that may be closer to
>one another kind of workbook design. Another critical moment
>in my journey was in second half of 2007 I found 2 study
>partners in the bay area, Jean-Marc Mazzoni and Jay
>Jwalanaiah. We got together from netmeeting every week to
>work primarily on InternetworkExpert labs and go over Jean's
>very detailed notes that he worked so hard and shared with us
>so selfishlessly. They sincerely pointed out that I have
>English proficiency issue that needed to overcome and they
>made a lot of jokes out of it, well that's one of many reasons
>I love CCIE program that allows me to meet such great men that
>I otherwise no way to know, not only that after they both
>passed the exam, they gave me their routers and switches for
>free so that I was able to build a fully scaled lab without
>compromise. You all know what value of such an available lab
>for a candidate is.
>
>What I am tying to say is this,if you have guts to pursue this
>journey, do not drop it! for it defeats your own purpose, even
>if you do, you may eventually come back, because we are
>engineers by nature and we like to complete things from A to
>Z, why wasting time? and Cisco is also interested in seeing
>how you deal with failure (no offend to 1st time pass). I
>have learned to convert complaint for compliment, appreciated
>failure as identification of weak areas, and taken pain on the
>journey as necessary cost to pass. As world needs CCIEs and
>equivalents to keep its networks up, no excuse is acceptable.
>I am now glad that we took that credit card debt, because all
>the skillset learned along the journey, the creditability
>established in work place, the confidentiality in oneself
>facing assigned projects, and the opportunity upcoming to
>one's reach are much, much more weighted than this debt, that
>too, would be soon disappeared as well. On the other hand you
>can say me primitive, but nothing makes me more happier than
>being able to support my family, especially in economic downturn.
>
>For everyone on board, I say thank you mate. Hanging there,
>you'll be CCIE one day; For all instructors including list
>owner I have deepest respect for your dedication, willingness,
> patience and all that will be forever our integrate part of
>the journey.
>
>Leo
>22227 (R&S)
>
>P.S
>Input to improve my English proficiency is greatly appreciated.
>
>
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