Memo from Steve Skinner of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Guys,
on saturday i passed my CCIE written ,just ....Horray for me ...
But i have decided not to go for the lab?????......WHY?.
well i have been in the industry for 8yrs..and i have spent most of that
time chasing Cred`s,
First it was novell
Then it was Microsoft
then i side-swiped into Lotus
Now it is Cisco....and throughout all that time .as soon as i get these
cred`s they seem to to be worth as much as they were.
an articale taken from "the Times" about two weeks ago by a top london
recuritment agent
"At this present time ,even though we(England) are in a resonable period of
growth ,i presently have 5 of the most sort after network expert CCIE
awatiing work"
this got me thinking........how many CCIE does the world need.
And more importantly HOW much work it there for CCIE`s,
take this senario ... i presently work for a company that has over 12,000
employees in the UK....we have 1500 cisco switches and routers running
OSPF.BGP.ISDN,SMDS.,
yet we have only ONE CCIE...this begs the question ....how many org`s are
there out there to support all us IE.for economic means only why employ an
IE if you only need (or can get away with) an NP who spent the time the IE
did on his lab X-triaing into FOUNDRY and VOIP...?????
if we take this list for example there are plenty of people who are
extremly advanced in there skill
Howard,Pris,Chuck,Thomas,MR roysdon....these guys and more don`t SEEM to
need the IE...maybe they have made the right choice..???????
this question is scaring me ....just a bit
also,
if i spend $4,000 on a test lab $1,200 per shot at the real thing ,then i
actuallly pass ,if an organisation the size of mine only needs one ...?what
will the return on my investment B...?????? will there b so many IE out
there that i can`t find work because i am deemed to expensive??????????
i think i will do the following
CCDP ,Secuirty/pix stuff then foundry.............
your thought`s and advise please
steve ...MCSE,CCNA,CCNP,CCDA,CCIe written
VVSAF.......Very Very Scared About the Future
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