dear n rf, area you still in networking business, and are you a CCIE? Just curious :) Xy ----- Original Message ----- From: "n rf" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: RE: how about ccie salary in US? [7:71143]
> douglas mizell wrote: > > not. I honestly cannot comment on the job market at home except > > to say it > > sounds dismal, if there really are CCIE's out there fighting > > over $35K jobs > > than to hell with this whole idea, open a taco stand. > > > > Which is why a growing number of them are leaving the industry. Without > naming names (I want to respect their privacy), I can now count in double > figures the number of CCIE's who have left the field for othe work. Some > have gone back to being UNIX admins, which is what they had been doing > before they got into networks. Some are in graduate school. Some have > finished graduate school and are in entirely different fields - strategy > consulting, Wall Street, etc. I know one who became a real-estate agent. > > Invariably they all say the same thing, which is that while networks are > interesting, they gotta do what they gotta do to pay the bills, and if > networks aren't going to butter their bread, they have to find something > that will. And in some cases, they butter their bread with Lurpak. The guy > who's a real-estate agent now makes several times more than he ever made as > a network guy even during the dotcom boom. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=71329&t=71143 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
