From: joshua lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 11:34:18 GMT-3
Congrats on your remarkable achievement! I hope to have my number soon, I
just hope my experience is not like yours :)
jl
Josh Lauer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyle, Anthony (AL)" <ALHoyle@dow.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Cc: <anthony.hoyle@eds.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:29 AM
Subject: I finally Made it: CCIE # 13948
> Whew!!!! What a nightmare. I just passed the lab this past Monday in
> RTP. This was my fifth attempt. On my fourth attempt, I missed it by
> 1% I even asked for a re-score, and still missed it by .5%. I won't go
> into details about what happened, we have all seen the e-mails in the
> past, same
> story...almost. It seemed impossible, very difficult, but I came out on
> top. I too, was expecting to get that e-mail, and see the fail, and start
> wondering
> in bewilderment about what I barely missed, but not this time. Great does
> not explain the feeling. How I made to RTP..well that have to tell you
> about:
>
> I am from Rochester Hills, MI (Near Detroit) , and was flying out of
> Lansing. The flight was from Lansing to Chicago, and from Chicago to
> Pittsburgh, then
> from Pittsburgh to Raleigh, NC. Well, of course United overbooked most of
> the flights. When we landed in Chicago, the plane going to Pittsburgh
> was boarding (what?) I couldn't believe it. SO we missed the flight, now
> were standby (worse than coming in 3rd place in a contest) We barely
> caught a flight
> to Pittsburgh. Now...we are in Pittsburgh, and all of the flights going
> to Raleigh,NC are overbooked by at least 11 people (mind you it is almost
> 9pm at night)
> I was almost at the point of breaking down (given the fact we are still 11
> hours away from Raleigh, and it is not looking good) We (me and my wife)
> managed to get two seats
> going to Charlotte, NC (as close as United could get us and because two
> other people missed their flight). We get to Charlotte...but oh -by the
> way Charlotte is 3 hours away from NC. Soooo..
> we hitch hiked to Raleigh (since all my credit cards were maxed (from
> taking the lab a few times this year and who knows what else) and made it
> there at about 2am.
> We arrived at the Wingate at 2am. I had to wake right back up at 6:30am,
> and go take the lab at 7:15am. There goes that whole "get a good night's
> rest before the lab"
> plan out the window. I almost decided back in Pittsburgh to just go home
> and call it a day. But I kept going -very happy now :) After going
> through that experience, if Cisco even considers having a remote CCIE lab,
> I will rally and picket outside of CISCO /w
> big signs -hee hee hee hee :)
>
> I said to myself: If I didn't pass this time, I was going to change
> careers. I kept questioning myself, what's wrong with me? Maybe this
> isn't for me?
> The CCIE is attainable (obviously from all of the talent on this list) but
> you have to have perseverance and dedication.
>
> What's next?..well I haven't seen my wife and kids (like I should) for the
> past two plus years..I also just got this new X-Box game yesterday called
> burnout 3 (wow that game is awesome). & I m' catching up on a few movies.
> I can't help it though....now I'm reading the Cisco call manager
> Fundamentals and Troubleshooting Cisco IP telephony. I went through all
> of the AVVID classes at CISCO last year..but that didn't do me too much
> justice..
> I am so use to staying up all night and studying, and on the rack, I don't
> know what to do now?
>
> Oh yeah, I just want to chime in about that thread we were all reading a
> while back, about the guy forgetting his CCIE number. HA! I would
> probably
> forget me SSN or, even my home phone number, before my CCIE number. That
> was an interesting thread though :)
>
>
> Thank you group study for letting me participate in this list, and all of
> the great comments from everyone who answers questions all of the time
> (Scott Morris and Brian that sticks out in my head), as well as all of the
> other great contributors on this list. I'm here now :) *
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Anthony Hoyle, CCIE #13948
> EDS
> Infrastructure Specialist
> anthony.hoyle@eds.com
>
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