Re: Career path for a fresh CCIE#25111

First of all congratulations!!! Awesome accomplishment, and quite a catchy
number you snagged there sir! As far as your future, my only advice to you
is to do what makes you happy. You worked for it, and you deserve it. If
doing the hands on in the trenches configs makes you happy and geeked out,
go with that! If you are more of a people person and salesman maybe look
into being an SE or something. Then there is always teaching... : )

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tony Tong <tongcheungyu_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I just passed my RS (CCIE#25111) in Hong Kong 2 days ago in my 2nd attempt.
>
> As a fresh CCIE, or as a IT man near 30 years old; I felt chaos now in my
> future career path. I may have different choices in the future, being a
> senior technical engineer, being a management staff or being a technical
> sales / pre-sales person.
> For different choices, I should have different plans and should train
> myself
> for differernt abilities form now on.
> All I need is your opinions and advices as a reference to my choice:
>
> 1) For a senior technical engineer, need I take another CCIE track to
> broader my technical knowledge or study on other vendor's certificates,
> such
> as JNCIE, CISSP, CCSE etc
> Which area should I go? The network security, ISP or Voice?
> 2) For a management staff, need I take a master degree on IT management or
> some other management certificate, such as PMP, etc ?
> 3) For a sales / pre-sales person, I think it is more rely on personal
> experience on the IT markets and inter-personal skills. Is there any course
> or training I can take?
>
> Many thanks :)
>
>
> Cheers and regards,
> Tony Tong
>
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