From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 12:57:45 ART
Phillip,
You are better off getting hooked by cisco than Mike Tyson anyway ;)
Very well done.
Regards
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip Day" <Phillip.Day@telindus.co.uk>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:32 PM
Subject: I don't mean to brag but.......
> Ok I've finally come down from the cloud I was on when I found last night
> that
> I passed the R&S lab on my second attempt in Brussels. Up to now, I've
> always
> thought it to be a bit self-indulgent and gratuitous to post a long life
> story
> about yourself to a group of people that you have mostly never met, but
> nonetheless here it is!
>
> I started out in Networking about half way through 2003 after giving up on
> my
> 8 year professional boxing career. I had realised that I probably wasn't
> the
> next Tyson, and as such was struggling to pay the bills. Since I didn't
> have
> a relevant C.V. to put out, I gradually over the next few months started
> to
> pad it out by studying and getting Microsoft MCPs whilst working on a
> helpdesk. After about six months I landed my MCSE (the old-fashioned way
> without brain dumps!) and found that I had got quite used to reading long
> technical books, so I did a CCNA and got hooked on Cisco. Over the next
> 2-3
> years and 2-3 job changes I gained my CCNP, CCDP, and CCIP by reading the
> Cisco Press books. A colleague from my current job (not naming names
> Dave
> M!) persuaded me that I should get the CCIE Written out of the way, and
> study
> with him for the lab. I did both. I used the Internetwork Expert
> workbook
> after realising that CBT Nuggets probably wasn't going to do the job for
> me!
> Then this summer I went to the NMC Bootcamp which got me practically ready
> for
> the real thing. After working through the NMC 'Doit' Labs which are
> mostly
> cruelly difficult, I felt ready for the real thing.
>
> I went to Brussels in August and failed fairly miserably because of the
> pressure of the occasion and also I think I half expected to get it in the
> same format as a Checkit lab, which sadly it wasn't! Having dusted off my
> pride and got back into lab practices, I booked again for yesterday and
> went
> there expecting it to be less tough. It was, but still I had to work for
> it.
> I was still on the plane home doubting I had passed but the good news came
> a
> few hours later after I got home.
>
> I'd just like to thank the constructive posters on Groupstudy, Val, Bob,
> Bruce
> and Indy at NMC, The two Brians for the IE Class on Demand and finally
> Dave
> Mumford and the Technical Support guys at Telindus UK.
>
>
> Phill Day CCIE#19190
>
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