Re: trainer/coach

Kevin,

Honestly. 100 dollars an hour for one on one instruction?
What can any instructor teach you in an hour that is worth those rates?

There is no shortening the learning curve. You got lost? We all do on this
journey. You can fill your house with every workbook provided by every
vendor, every CoD to listen to while you go for the burn on the stair
climber, you can do every bootcamp. The bottom line is using whatever
resources you obtain on your own time and patiently. This takes hundreds if
not thousands of hours. Those resources may be meagre, but that's not
important. What is important is that while a trainer may *assist* you to get
where you want to be, they cannot do it for you. That has to come from you
and only you and it takes hard graft.

Any instructor on the list that wishes to disagree with me, you know where I
am.

Regards
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin dalby" <ieorbust_at_gmail.com>
To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: trainer/coach

> Hi Experts,
>
> I had a few requests from other students asking what I found out about
> individual one on one training/coaching. So, here it is. I did find
> several vendors that will accommodate this type of request and it's
> usually
> in the 100/hr price range. One side note, I would much rather pay a CCIE
> directly via paypal than pay a vendor company, so if there are any CCIEs
> or
> CCIE instructors that want a little extra money unicast me. Otherwise
> I'll
> go with the vendors.
>
> I am planning on meeting with an instructor for an hour twice a week for
> the
> next three months to cover any issues that I run into on the labs.
> Especially QoS and Security. I am hoping that this will shorten the
> learning curve and that I will spend less time lost and be more productive
> in the practice labs. I am then going to a 12 day bootcamp to try and put
> all the individual pieces together. I've had several emails mentioning
> that
> while bootcamps are great don't go until you are very solid on the
> individual technologies.
>
> I also got an email from Anthony Sequeira at INE asking if I wanted help
> putting together a study plan, which I gladly accepted.
>
> So, that's what I've found out so far, thanks all for your suggestions and
> help.
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> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:25 PM, kevin dalby <ieorbust_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Experts,
>>
>> I have my CCIE lab date coming up on Oct 1st and I am feeling unprepared.
>> I've been studying consistantly for about 3 months now, going through the
>> INE workbook #1. I feel like I waste a lot of time because I get lost on
>> a
>> topic and then spend hours on the Doc CD / cisco.com trying to find out
>> where the topic is covered ect.
>>
>> So, I am looking for a CCIE out there that would be interested in being a
>> trainer/coach. I would like to meet for an hour or so twice a week at
>> your
>> conveniece to go over issues in the Workbooks or labs that I'm doing.
>>
>> Unicast me if there is any interest, and also let me know what you think
>> would be a fair hourly rate.
>>
>> Thanks, looking forward to your response.
>
>
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