Re: OT- Reaching 40, choosing path

After reading an email from But last night to the group. I became very
discouraged about the OEQ he posted. I would have missed that one for sure.
I never seen that before.
So I came back to this email thread for encourgagement.

I feel better now. I can do it.

Thank you all.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Mark Matters <markccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I am glad that you opened up to the group.
>
> I'm near 40. I know it can be discourgaging sometimes.
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> I feel it too sometimes. Spending all my money, putting myself in a lot of
> debt and not spending time with my family. Sometimes I think to myself is
> this really worth it. Am I doing the right thing by my family. My wife and I
> have discussed this and we both know the short sacrifice in time now ( 1+
> yrs so far) is worth the end result.
>
> I believe without a doubt that this will make me a better engineer(it
> already has) and the title will open doors to more money for my family. I
> want the title to prove I can do what so little others can. To be able to
> distingish myself from all the people competing against me. There are only
> some 20k + CCIE's for a reason.
>
> You stepped into the CCIE arena. Most people will not even bother. But you
> did. You made a commitment to yourself. You know it's going to be hard work,
> a challenge. "Do what you said you were going to do, when you said you were
> going to do it, how you said you were going to do it."
>
> Now go enjoy doing what ever your favorite thing is to do and then get back
> to the books.
>
>
> We are a small community but we have big hearts. We are here to help you
> and support you.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:50 AM, ospfv2 <ospfv2_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Just curious, how many of you between your 35-40 and still going
>> chasing the lab ?
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>> i'm feeling too old and think about to burn my cisco bridge, build
>> another one and
>> better spending my time on endeavours where the odds are more
>> stacked in my favour to bring the success i desire.
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>> rgds
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> "The more I learn the less I know". This is incredibly frustrating to me.
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"The more I learn the less I know". This is incredibly frustrating to me.
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