H e l l o from Sunny San Jose.
I've just arrived back in my hotel after sucessfully completing the CCIE R/S
lab.
My brain isn't quite functioning correctly yet, but I wanted to pass along a
great deal of thanks to everyone in the group. I have learned so much from
each of you. I'll try to continue to lurk and help when I can.
Here's a bit of my story:
I'm 33. Got my first computer when I was 13. 20 years. Wow!!! Fell in
love with programming. At 17, I got a job teaching college and was building
custom IBM compatibles for a friends business. I taught continuing
education computer classes. Did that for three years to help pay for my own
college. By my third year of college I burned out on programming. I'd
finally come out of my shell and found that I didn't want to sit in a cube
all day and write code. I then went to work for a small telcom interconnect
and learned all about PBXs. Did that for 7 years. I decided to make the
leap back into "real" computers and data. I went to work for the phone
company as a field data technician. Did that for 1 1/2 years and then
became a Sales Engineer. Been doing that for about 3 years now. I've got
lots of hands on and plenty of different certifications(Cisco, Bay/Nortel,
Fore/Marconi, etc...). Last year, I decided to work towards my CCIE. I
also decided to get all the intermediate certifications along the way.
Starting from last April to November, I did my CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP. In
January of this year I did my Voice access specialization. In February I
passed the CCIE written. I've been hitting my engineering lab at work ever
since. I did 4 hours a nite every day of the week and 12 hours each day of
the weekend since then. Its been 3 1/2 months of hell. My wife has been
very understanding.
Boy, was that a long rambling paragraph. Hope my highschool english teacher
isn't reading this!
Thanks again,
Joe Martin
CCIE#5917, and a couple of other things...
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