RE: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations?

2001-03-20 Thread Buri, Heather H
In my opinion, it depends on how you view your role and your capabilities. Sure, if you narrowly define your role as working for dot.com's and start-up's then sure it would affect you. But if you see your role and capabilities as movable, to say...a corporation environment then no. Enterprise net

Re: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations?

2001-03-20 Thread CiscoDiety
Not even a little. I'm still going strong, in fact, I wouldn't know there was a downturn if people weren't mentioning it all the time :-) Clayton Dukes CCNA, CCDA, CCDP, CCNP Internetwork Solutions Engineer Internetwork Management Engineer Thrupoint, Inc. Tampa, FL (c) 904.477.7825 (h) 904.292.18

RE: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations?

2001-03-20 Thread roger . gore
i'll either be managing a .com / pre-ipo or a bankruptcy court's network...either way, i'll be gainfully employed doing what i enjoy. technology and the demand for it aren't going anywhere! roger -Original Message- From: Rich Chang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 200

RE: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations?

2001-03-20 Thread Lim Jit Cheng
D] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Buri, Heather H Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:08 PM To: 'Rich Chang'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations? In my opinion, it depends on how you view your role and your ca

Re: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations?

2001-03-20 Thread The.Rock
As someone else mentioned, i wouldn't even know there was a slowdown if it wasn't for the media broadcasting that message every 30 seconds. It also depends on what place your business has in the market as well as location. I'm in Texas and there are plenty of jobs to be had, even for newbies. It m

Re: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations?

2001-03-20 Thread Tony van Ree
Hi all, Economic downturn. I feel that with all the economic downturn the technology won't change. If anything there will be a greater requirement for good, smart, open minded technicians. I use the term technicians as there are lots of Information Technology and Information Management func

Re: Economic downturn--Impact on Cisco Certification aspirations?

2001-03-20 Thread * *
You're kidding, right? Seriously? Did you honestly believe the .coms were all valuable and providing a niche? How many search engines do we need? Online toy stores? Online book stores? ISPs? How does the US (or global) economy evolve? New products...new services... neither of which 90%