Re: Career path for a fresh CCIE#25111

Tony,
  At 30 as a new CCIE, my suggestion is to take a break from
certification/training/degrees in general and improve take on roles that
will increase your exposure and gain real world experience! There are many
people who become senior technical engineers without a CCIE at all,
management without a masters, and are in sales roles with poor
inter-personal skills. Volunteer to speak at conferences, take a
challenging job, pick a technology to go deep in, etc.

Mike Kraus
CCIE #18450 R&S
Putting security into Borderless Networks!

On 8/12/09 8:06 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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Received on Wed Aug 12 2009 - 19:00:33 ART