Re: Passed on third attempt

From: Cong Trinh (congtk@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 02:27:51 ARST

Well done mate, what a great and new gift for the new year.

Congrats

Cong Trinh

 Anthony Sequeira <asequeira@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:

> Awesome post and congrats.
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> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Johnnie Utah wrote:
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> Group,
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>> Just wanted to share that I passed on the third attempt yesterday.
>> I've submitted fewer than 10 posts on this mailing list, but I've been
>> a reader since 1999, so for those of you who spend time each day to
>> keep the list alive and respond to technical questions related to lab
>> prep, kudos - you know who you are, and what you do does matter to the
>> hopefuls.
>>
>> I submitted a post after my second failed attempt in July of '08 and
>> went into a pseudo hibernation for about four months before getting up
>> off the canvas to take another swing...I'm not going to share any
>> details about the prep, I wouldn't add anything that hasn't been said
>> already, namely regarding specific vendors, bootcamps and the like.
>>
>> I did want to write about a few emotional/health topics that nobody
>> told me about when I signed up to do this...What I've learned at least
>> for me personally, as the lab date gets closer, the more tense,
>> anxious and irritable I became. Not pleasant to be around at all. I
>> can attribute this to a few things:
>>
>> 1. I spent most of my time studying late into the night due to working
>> a full day, spending time with the kids and seeing them off to bed.
>> The lack of sleep will eventually take it's toll.
>>
>> 2. You become so consumed with studying that things like a good diet
>> and regular exercise become non existent. Thus, the "what can I eat
>> quickly and return to studying" turns into a horrible diet, and I
>> really didn't care at the time, it was more concerned with quick and
>> easy. Bad diet and no exercise = feel like sh-t.
>>
>> 3. Guilt of choosing to study versus family time or anything else -
>> Every time I knocked out an 8 hour lab, I felt like I should have been
>> doing something else. Not to say others out there are like this,
>> because this journey is very important to one's career, but there is a
>> guilt element that some of you have felt and others will experience.
>>
>> 4. Back on sleep - late studying equals staring at the ceiling when
>> you go to bed. Configs swirling around in your coconut is not
>> conducive to relaxing and shutting it down. I could seldom crash
>> immediately after studying. It's like doing an all nighter on a major
>> outage or upgrade and sleeping during the day when it's over. It's
>> restless sleep because you dream about configurations. Maybe I'm an
>> anomaly, but I'm sure there's someone else out there who knows what
>> I'm talking about. I will admit that I'm a jerk to be around on a bad
>> sleep schedule.
>>
>> 5. Anxiety leading up to lab day is very high. Even the anxiety
>> between lab completion and finding out the results is off the charts.
>>
>> So bottom line, I failed twice before, was really down about the
>> second failed attempt for about 2 weeks. For those of you who are
>> fighting the good fight and grinding, keep going. I'm an average guy
>> that doesn't have the huge embedded technical appetite for this stuff
>> that a lot of you do, but it's doable.
>>
>> I left the lab feeling good, then on the flight home talked myself
>> into preparing for the worst, second guessing my solutions, etc. My
>> Blackberry buzzed at about 1:30 AM with an all too familiar message
>> from ccie@cisco.com, subject: CCIE Lab Score Report. This time it was
>> different, I saw the "Pass" designation on my recent attempt, above my
>> two previous fails. I thanked the Lord......then stared at the
>> ceiling for the next two hours (WTF?).
>>
>> Regarding feeling like a tired, anxious, out of shape jerk, it was
>> worth it. Today was awesome.
>>
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Cong Trinh

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