Re: CCIE R&S Discouraged

Thanks Joe for your comments.

Unfortunately is not easy to make the CCIE a large part of my time.
I've spent the last 26 months designing and deploying data centres
over US and EMEA, and spent a lot of my time travelling. I try to
study at any point (airports, hotel...even I was looking for plastic
covers to use the laptop in the shower...) but when you work an
average of 60 hrs per week (not considering those wonderful weekends
of changes and outages) it leaves few time for kids and marital tasks.

My wife understands my motivations, therefore she allowed me to have a
rack with 25 devices at home (funny the first time I turned on the
Lighstream 1010 and the c4700 and she thought I was helping with the
washing machine). I can only have good words for her (lot of pacience
with such a crazy guy). She always says that my hobby is my job, but
due to the workload (which I appreciate) it makes hard to get time for
all things. However it's not an excuse...it's just that it will take
more time to be fully prepared in this adventure. There is no other
chance that stealing time to sleep....

And I was not kidding when I said that my 10-months child recognize
Cisco logo...instead of hearing baby songs in the car, he listens to
CCIE audio bootcamps. It's probably that the next word he will say is
BGP... Hope I don't create a monster...LoL!

2011/12/9, Steve Di Bias <sdibias_at_gmail.com>:
> Thanks Joe! Believe it or not it helps to hear you say that! Cheers!
> On Dec 9, 2011 7:19 AM, "Joe Astorino" <joeastorino1982_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's to all the warriors out there labbing it up around wife, kids and
>> hectic work lives! When I went through my track, I had just a brand new
>> wife and I'm sure having kids makes it exponentially more difficult to
>> manage your time.
>>
>> Rock on guys, and happy holidays. To your success!
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:57 PM, George J. Sanchez
>> <marco207p_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Mike, that's my life to the "T" minus the YouTube.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Joe Sanchez
>>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Michael Kiefer <mjkiefer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > A wife, a 1 yo, a 5 yo, a cat, and 2 hours a day commuting. I study M-F
>>> from about 6:30 to 12 (give or take) and some times on the weekends.
>>> >
>>> > I can honestly say that other than watching one or two games of
>>> football on Sundays, I've seen 20-30 hours of TV over the course of the
>>> year. I'll record the shows I really want to see on the DVR and watch
>>> them
>>> on the weekends. Sometimes I'll wake up early and catch a recorded show
>>> before work.
>>> >
>>> > My TV habits seem a little strange by American standards, but I find it
>>> refreshing.
>>> >
>>> > I do watch a fair amount of Youtube clips on my smart phone as time
>>> permits. I plan on limiting my TV watching after I pass. I'll just find
>>> something more useful than watching TV to occupy my time.
>>> >
>>> > There's so much more to life than being tied down to all of these
>>> ridiculous TV shows. I always hear co-workers say things like tonight is
>>> Tuesday I can't wait to watch stupid show xyz. Get a life!
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Joe Astorino
>> CCIE #24347
>> Blog: http://astorinonetworks.com
>>
>> "He not busy being born is busy dying" - Dylan
>>
>>
>

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