Re: CCIE R&S Discouraged

Cheers man, that's alright -- just means you have to make it a smaller part
of your life on paper and on purpose. Whatever you do, don't leave it to
chance go make it happen even if it takes you longer than the average.
Nobody really cares how long it takes you to get it, as long as you get
it. So look, if you really honestly don't have the time, don't do it. You
will not be able to commit and you will get frustrated. BUT...really, do
you have the time? It is worth looking...

What you should do is sit down (with the wife if necessary) and literally
plan a time budget. Go through your life and I think you might be
surprised at what time you find to carve out. Obviously, everybody's
situation is different but for example, maybe it means getting up 2 hours
early for work 3 days a week. Maybe it means staying late at the office if
it is quite there a few times a week to study. When you find some, carve
it out specifically and only for study time. Even if that is 8 hours a
WEEK, it is 8 hours a week that you and everybody else important in your
life understands is going to be your time, uninterrupted to meet your
goal. It may take longer, but who cares.

I sincerely hope this helps. Again, this is only my humble suggestion I
know everybody is different and has their own methods of dealing with
things, just trying to help in the best way I know how.

Good Luck!

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Guillermo Ruiz <gruizesteban_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> G.Ruiz
>

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Joe Astorino
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Blog: http://astorinonetworks.com
"He not busy being born is busy dying" - Dylan
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