Whilst I laud you for your efforts so far .. Don't get all ugly this is
constructive criticism
I did just like you but in 1998 and the only difference may be our ages
and locations .
Having been thru the experience paradox many years prior . I knew that it
had not changed much .
so I leveraged what existing skills I had prior to the career change .
People skills , management and sales and the nearest fit was help desk.
So I spent 3 months just busting my butt to get a help desk job ..
I must of got told no a gadzillion times .. in the interim I did chat
help desk for newbies on MSN .
Helped out a couple of local charities with some simple stuff etc.
All this which I got paid 0 for helped fill out the resume
Then finally I got a help desk job .. It was 4 pm thru 12 pm and I drove a
truck from 7 am thru 3 pm .
Time then became very valuable so I spent all my time doing my job at 110 %
.
I tried to study but it was very difficult as there just was no time left
in the day ..
HOWEVER, by pushing myself at work THAT became the study and also gave me
hands on as well .
then I moved on the rollout and desktop and server stuff. Now I am a
consultant and just about run the gamut.
Cisco is my "play" stuff and I do a variety of stuff from desktop support
thru to designing SAN's for high end video production.
I started one job as rollout dude slinging boxes on desktops and ended up
doing servers and setting up USR dialup for 400 odd users. AS 400 's and
anything I could lay my hands on.
Meanwhile folks who were in the same boat as me were reading the heck
out of books and passing tests left and right.
MEANWHILE ALL are still really not even close to my level of skills as a
generalist and get maybe 50 % of what I make .. .
Their archilles heel is a LIMITED skill set and LIMITED experience.
Get contacting work and the second you cannot learn more about an
environment MOVE ON.
Sure its a pain moving around but a couple of years doing this give you
the edge.
Sadly many don't see home study as valuable deal.. ( only those who did
the same )
it's not luck it's not being in the right place at the right time .
It's YOU putting yourself in the right place at the right time.
No success is due to LUCK it's due to perseverance,determination skill and
BLOODY HARD WORK.
Right now consider an employers point of view you have some certs but park
cars ??
What should they do ?? You still have not shown them you can WORK only
STUDY.
So it not unreasonable to think this way ..
You prime goal should be to build a NETWORK of PEOPLE spend the next 3
months hammering headhunters.
Scouring the papers , pounding the net and the streets.
You fixation should be GETTING A JOB. Consider nothing but HOW TO GET A
JOB.
READ the headhunter sites on interview tips.
I used to call about 5 headhunters 3 times if not more a week .
Finally one day one the folks found something and because by now they
kinda knew me this guy said
"look I know his resume does not reflect what you are looking for
BUT I know this guy can do the job "
the rest is history
Oz
http://www.mcseco-op.com/CiscoStuff.htm
***In 1997, because I wanted to improve my way of life, I started buying and
studying books, first I got my A+ cert, Then my MCP, right now i only need 2
electives to have the MCSE, then i got my Network+, then my CCNA, from the
ccnp i passed the acrc and the cit, I bought all the cisco books for the
ccnp, the ccda,ccdp,ccie, i even took the ccie written , of course i failed,
but it is a good experience, and i think the acrc is a harder exam, but the
ccie is a more broader exam.***
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