- Feb 13, 2001
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First, I love my job, awesome company and culture.
Still things have to get done and most of this is really a gift, $30k+ in training without any cost, but time.
Two weeks from now I travel for work...it's going to be a bear. I will land, have to drive 4.5 hours to the job site then do a cut over and probably find my hotel at midnight. Check in and be back on-site for first day support until about noon. Then drive 6 hours for another one. Rinse / repeat and then head 3.5 hours back for a return redeye flight at 11pm.
Then I get a day home and fly out for some free Cisco training, can't really hate that...but it's for 5 days and then:
I get to fly home for a day and then fly out for two more weeks, more Cisco training....
Yay get a week off here...probably going to sleep most of it
then fly back out for another 5 days, more free Cisco training.
I will be probably more than awesome at Wireless and UC at that point.
I will tell anyone that is looking for a new 'gig' now, get certified in Cisco or another type of network company...esp. security. It's booming if you can talk to it. Too many just brain dump certs. That's only good if you have a job that is paying you to get them (and you really don't need them).
CCNA is an easy 3-6 month process. CCNP is a hard 6 months, but easy in 12.
At that point picking up more CCNA certs is 30-60 days give or take.
If you are working you will sacrifice all your free time to hit these numbers...figure working 8 hours then studying until you need to sleep then all weekend.
I have 7+ years of college and this by far is one of the best bang for bucks out there.
Still things have to get done and most of this is really a gift, $30k+ in training without any cost, but time.
Two weeks from now I travel for work...it's going to be a bear. I will land, have to drive 4.5 hours to the job site then do a cut over and probably find my hotel at midnight. Check in and be back on-site for first day support until about noon. Then drive 6 hours for another one. Rinse / repeat and then head 3.5 hours back for a return redeye flight at 11pm.
Then I get a day home and fly out for some free Cisco training, can't really hate that...but it's for 5 days and then:
I get to fly home for a day and then fly out for two more weeks, more Cisco training....
Yay get a week off here...probably going to sleep most of it
then fly back out for another 5 days, more free Cisco training.
I will be probably more than awesome at Wireless and UC at that point.
I will tell anyone that is looking for a new 'gig' now, get certified in Cisco or another type of network company...esp. security. It's booming if you can talk to it. Too many just brain dump certs. That's only good if you have a job that is paying you to get them (and you really don't need them).
CCNA is an easy 3-6 month process. CCNP is a hard 6 months, but easy in 12.
At that point picking up more CCNA certs is 30-60 days give or take.
If you are working you will sacrifice all your free time to hit these numbers...figure working 8 hours then studying until you need to sleep then all weekend.
I have 7+ years of college and this by far is one of the best bang for bucks out there.
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