Admittedly, what I'm going to discuss is not strictly Cisco certification, but I think it ties in with what NRF says about dues. Eons back, when I was in IBM application programming and user support, I really wanted to get into systems programming.
The "real" systems programming manuals (looseleaf) were of rather limited distribution -- not quite a heavy NDA, but "licensed material." As the operating system was updated, new update pages, or complete new manual versions, would replace the old. I began to haunt the trash cans in the systems programming area, grabbing all discarded updates and starting to put them into a one-release-behind library that let me study. Eventually, I was able to go to the head of system programming and establish that I knew enough to be useful, and explained to Irv how I had done it. He respected that -- he, like many other systems programmers of the time, had his job because he was ex-IBM, and indeed having worked his way up their ladder from hardware repair engineer. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=44384&t=44342 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
