[146908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quinn Kuzmich)
Sat Nov 26 13:44:55 2011
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:43:54 -0700
From: Quinn Kuzmich <lostinmoscow@gmail.com>
To: David Swafford <david@davidswafford.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
There are more than a few people out there that will look down on you for
your efforts - ignore them.
"The people who want you to give up are jealous because you're better than
them. The people who are already better than you don't care about you
because you're not as good as them."
Q
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:52 AM, David Swafford <david@davidswafford.com>wrote:
> Scott's point is very true! Motivation will help you go very far,
> much farther than certs/knowledge alone. As a soon to be
> college-grad, be ready for the initial disappointment, :-), even
> though you'll have your CCNP, you have no real experience, so you'll
> start at the entry level. That's not a bad thing, but you might see
> it as such. The reason it is good, is that while at the entry level
> (networking that is, I'm not talking about a helpdesk), you'll get to
> touch and interact with a lot of different things with very little
> "total" responsibility.
>
>
