> For the record, I studied and practiced hard, and passed the CCIE lab with > precious little "industry experience." I found a great job in a great > company within two months of passing the CCIE Lab, and I had a few other > interested folks contact me for interviews.
The demagoguery of this whole thread aside, my experience was much the same as Mr. Larus'. I had little industry experience and also found exactly the job I wanted in exactly the place I wanted for exactly the money that I asked for within two and a half months. I also had three other offers and a series of five interviews with a prominent multinational whose only concern was my lack of customer facing time as I was interviewing for a pre-sales role. As I am a high school dropout with only a couple years of university to my credit, you can more clearly see the effect of the CCIE on my career than on Mr. Larus' as he was a lawyer in his previous incarnation and hence brings allot to the table outside of the CCIE even without much industry experience. Every one of the CCIEs that I know is working aside from one that is dedicating more time to flying RC gliders off a cliff in San Francisco than job searching:) If you want to get a good job in the networking field, the CCIE is a great path to take. If you would rather rise to the top management of Cisco or some other Fortune 500 company you are better off with a degree... or perhaps even better, many hours in the garden watching some rapacious slug devour and assimilate everything in its path. Keep in mind that business (like government and unlike fish) is curious in that the bottomfeeders congregate at the top. YMMV and gas is about to get more expensive, Geoff Zinderdine CCIE #10410 P.S. Tom, is your career recapitulating phylogeny? Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=60286&t=59481 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
