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>> I started training for CBT Nuggets in 2003.
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As I looked back, I go, "Wow,
it's a lot of years.
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It's a decade of my life."
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And yet, it doesn't feel that way.
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It's going so fast and I feel
just the same as I did back then.
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So I guess it's just it's time
goes faster and faster, right?
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So, over the years, I get a lot of questions,
you know, in the Cisco world like, you know,
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how do I-- of course, you know, how
do I configure something and something
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but one of the common questions I get is well,
how do I get started in the world of Cisco?
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How do I get a job in the world of Cisco?
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How do I get started in the field of technology
meaning that all these kind of things,
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and I put together a lot of-- I guess
I could call them canned answers.
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I mean they're like thoughts in
my mind if this is, you know,
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this is the best advice I could give you
but then, I've had a number of people
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that say, "Well, how did you get started?"
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And I think well, it's nothing
like my canned answers.
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It's nothing like the best advice I can give.
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I just kind of, how did I get here?
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I don't know.
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So I thought what I would do is put
together a nugget that is my journey
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into the Cisco certification world.
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And it's a little weird to do, it's almost
like Jeremy raw, and you know, it's like--
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it's kind of weird to do a
nugget like this because it's--
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I don't usually like getting into
the personal side of things but it's
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like to do something like this I had to.
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It would be weird to just say, "Oh, there are I
am in Cisco without giving you any background."
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So let me draw a line on
this chart-- right there.
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Y2K. Year 2000 is when I got into Cisco.
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Before then, let me give you the
flyby of Jeremy before that world.
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Technology has always been an interest to me.
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From the minute my dad brought home a
Timex Sinclair computer from a conference.
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He got it free for going to this conference.
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So like, "Oh, here's a free computer."
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I mean you actually hook up a cassette
tape player like an audio cassette
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and that was how you played
your programs to this.
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And so, he was interested in computers and
he ended up buying a Commodore Amiga 1000
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which was-- you know, that
computer is way out of it's time.
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So he got into this world of BBSs with,
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I think he start with a 1200 baud
modem and I just watched him.
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He's my dad.
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I'm not trying to figure out what he's doing
and I'm watching like this is pretty cool.
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You dial up, you know, all these people.
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It's like a thing of BBSs, bulletin board
system is the internet before there was one.
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And so, he was dialing up all these different
places and trading files and leaving messages,
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and I'm like, "Oh, this is great."
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So, I as his son get into that, I'm
dialing up and my dream was to run my own.
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So eventually my parents both me a 9600 baud
practical peripherals external LCD display,
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it was crazy.
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It's one of the most amazing
purchases ever modem.
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And they got me a phone line and there
I was, you know, receiving calls.
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I run my own BBS.
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So I always had this technology bent.
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And so when I looked for a job, I
naturally gravitated to technology.
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And so, I guess before I even made this chart,
I was at department stores selling computers.
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Thinking I knew a lot more than I did,
but who could tell me different back then.
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You know, I was ignorant.
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And the-- and so, I'm selling computers
eventually landed a company called MicroH.
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And MicroH, they were actually
contracted by Apple and Compaq.
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You know, at Compaq is no more, they're gone.
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Apple, I mean, you guys know who
Apple is, but I think of Apple
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as like these mountains of technology, you know.
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They used to be massive.
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It's like, you know, every school that you went
to, Apple computer is everywhere, every job,
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and you know, Apple was the computer.
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And then, you know, somewhere, I don't know
why or how, but they just went down hill quick.
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I mean to the point of like nobody
wants an Apple and all that.
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So, right here, you know, that's
where the iPad came out and kind
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of resurrected the company and all that saga.
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So I was right here, right in the middle
of that mountain and my job initially,
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there was a take a credit cared numbers.
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When Apple was one of the first companies that
charge for tech support, so people would call
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and I was the guy who said, "Well,
before you can speak to a technician,
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let me get your credit card number."
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So I got yelled at a lot.
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And while people are yelling, I was looking at
the Apple computer and trying to figure it out
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and playing with them like I can do this.
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And they have all this training manuals
at MicroH that I could use to learn.
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And so before long, they promoted me out
of credit card into real tech support.
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And so I began were a lot of
you began which is on the phone.
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So you know, taking tech support calls, telling
people to reimage their computers ahead,
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you know, no business reimaging their computer.
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I just didn't know the answer.
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So anyway, all the side notes beside.
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At the same time, I'm going to
college for a computer science degree.
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Why? Because that's all anybody told me.
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Every time I talk to a counselor at the college
campus, I talked to anybody, and there like,
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"Oh well, if you want to do anything real in the
technology world, you got to be a programmer."
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And oh, my word, if I would have only
known, you know, there was other field,
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and I know a lot of people out there just
don't know that there are other things
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than computer programming because I hated it.
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I would go to the classes, I had no
relevance for it, you know, okay,
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this and if then, while, loop, huh, why?
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Okay. Variable X, why-- like it
just-- I didn't see the point.
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There was no real world application.
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This was before there are really was a
common internet that everybody connected to.
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So I'm just like okay, why
would I want to do it?
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Like it just didn't make
sense, I didn't care about it.
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The-- so I didn't well at it.
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So, three years into the degree, finals week
began a series of misfortunate events in my life
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to where I was in a motorcycle accident.
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Followed by a high speed car
accident, the month following.
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So essentially, left me brain damaged
and I laughed, but I seriously and unable
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to complete the computer science degree.
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So after three years I stopped, and after
much rehab and miracles, et cetera in my life,
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I ended back at MicroH now
working on an assembly line.
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Building computers and that was one
of the things is we would build them.
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We would put windows and T on them.
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Ship them off to a company.
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So the company would just have to unbox
them and it would be ready for their system.
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And so, I show up to work one day and some goes,
"Oh, Jeremy, you're supposed to be in class."
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And I go, "Oh, where?"
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They go across the street.
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Okay. So I run across the street and
there I walk into my first MCSC class.
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Now looking back wasn't supposed to
be there, it was actually the schedule
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that my department but not
me that should go there.
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And there was actually two
classes along in the track.
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So it's way above my head, but I'm sitting
there in this class watching this instructor
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who is talking about users, and groups,
and global, and local, and domains.
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And I'm like, "Oh, my word."
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I'd never even knew this side
of the technology field existed.
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Like this is interesting to me.
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It was over my head, but
boy, was it interesting.
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And I was just like men, and I realized
as I'm sitting or watching this guy rustle
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and dazzle me with domains and trust
and all those stuff that Microsoft had.
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I'm sitting there and the chair just going
"I bet, I bet that guy never forgets."
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I bet he never forgets all the stuff he's
talking but he's talking about all the time.
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And so, you know, it's like, sneak peak into
Jeremy's motivation to get into teaching.
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I didn't want to forget.
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You know, I really didn't have much--
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like previous experience or anything like that
was just I bet you he doesn't forget anything.
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So I get back and then like I
can't believe you didn't tell us.
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You weren't supposed to be at that
class and we're never sending you
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to anther class, and it was just not good.
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And I didn't know.
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I did just said, "Go to class."
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So, no more funding for the company to take
classes so I started buying them myself.
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I said, "Well, this is so interesting.
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I want to start going into these classes."
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So I've start buying these classes.
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And so, I'm going to the
training company one day.
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And now, you're wondering how
or how-- I'm getting there.
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This is-- you just want that
the raw Jeremy of how I got
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into technology 'cause I will
tell you, I've heard more stories
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that are just whacked out like this.
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This is how it happened.
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I walked into the training company
to take a certification exam.
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I still remember, it was the
688 exam Microsoft TCPIP.
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I had no idea about submitting and all that
back then but I was ready for the test.
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And so, I was waiting for the test to
begin, you know, waiting for the test.
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And I talked to the receptionist, and I said,
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what does it take to get a job
teaching at a company like this?
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And the receptionist like then
she goes, "Oh, you know what?
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We're actually looking for trainers.
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And she said, "Let me call the manager."
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And I'm like-- you know, I'm like backing out.
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And so, she calls the manager.
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Manager comes in and he goes "Oh so
I hear you want to be a trainer?"
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And I said, "Well, I was just
curious, what does it take?
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I mean, how do you"-- and
he goes, "I tell you what.
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I tell you what.
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You pass this exam" because by then my seat
had freed up and I was going in for the exam,
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he goes, "You pass this exam, you're hired."
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I'm not kidding.
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So I'm like, "Huh?
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What?" and I can feel some of the back details.
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So I go in to take this test, shaking,
not only because the normal testers,
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but this is like a job interview.
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I'm going to take this test and I pass, and
I come out, and he goes "Well, you're hired."
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And so, now, let me fill in
some of the back details.
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You're like, "This is crazy."
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It is. I found later that this
company does this all time.
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They hire anybody and they throw them in
front of a room, and if the person survives
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and does well great, otherwise, you're fired.
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That's pretty much the game.
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So he goes well, you're first class
is going to be in a couple of weeks.
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You're going to be teaching US
West technicians about this up
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and coming technologies called DSL, and how to
install in network card, and he said, "Well,
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here's the book that we've created to do this."
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So go and study that you're be ready to teach.
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So I'm like oh my words.
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So I'm thinking, okay, I got to
prepare and all this [inaudible].
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So, you know, I end up in front
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of a room sweating not ever doing
really any public speaking before.
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Looking at the second hand on the clock as the
people are going through their introductions
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and saying to myself, if the minute hand
reaches the ten, you know, I had this mark
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and I still feel this way, I
am walking out of this room
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and I never stepping foot
in the classroom again.
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So, long story, short, someone ask me a
question and another person ask me a question,
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and it was literally questions,
it's how I taught my first class.
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Teaching these US West technicians,
and thus, there I was.
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So, I left US West technician support and start
teaching Microsoft and then move into Novell
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And then fill in, you know, this is blah, blah,
blah, you know, years in the Microsoft world,
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you know, got into consulting, moved
between various training companies.
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All these kind of stuffs Y2K, I'm Microsoft
certified system engineer for Windows NT
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in 2000, and certified Novell
engineer for NetWare 4
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and NetWare 5 and I want to try something new.
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So, I talked to a company called
KnowledgeNet who contacted me.
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They're looking for trainers for this new
eLearning concept and KnowledgeNet is no more.
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But back then, it was like if you had a
.Com in your name like millions of dollars,
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and their like hey, you hire on for us,
we'll give you tons of stock options.
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You'll be reached and all that.
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Tat didn't work.
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But I say, "Well, I tell you want.
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If I'm going to come teach, I really
want to get into the world of Cisco."
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So they said "Great, come on, come on over."
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And so I came over and they say, "Okay,
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you're going to start setting
Cisco," get your CCIE exam.
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So I'm studying CCIE.
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Back then, you know, in the
year 2000, the CCNA was nothing,
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I mean it was just a series
of multiple choice questions.
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It was one exam, it wasn't two.
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And I was good at reading books
and be able to recite information.
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That was a talent of mine.
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And so, I was able to pass the
exam within a month of hiring
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at KnowledgeNet and knew nothing.
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I could pass the exam but really if you ask me
to configure device from scratch, I'll be like.
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I can change the host name, you
know, it was very, very sketchy.
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And so, the month after, they
go, "Okay, you got your CCNA.
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Why don't you get your CCNP?"
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So I got the entire CCNP in a month.
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And now, that-- when I tell people that,
they're like, "Man, you're so smart."
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No, I'm not.
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Its-- back then, you could have done it too.
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If you were paid study, if you were given 40
hours a week to study and you have the caliber
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of exam-- I guarantee, you'll be
just fine passing those exams.
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So, so the month after that,
you know, they're ramping up.
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I'm starting to teach a few
classes but they go, "Okay.
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Well, we've got some extra funds."
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This was before the crash of the .Com companies.
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And they said, "We have some extra funds.
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Why don't you go take your CCIE?"
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And so me thinking, you know, the
CCIE is just like all the rest.
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I said, "Okay, sure.
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Well, okay."
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And then, they're like,"Okay,
we'll get your plane ticket."
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And I was like, huh, plane tickets?
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That's-- you can see my underline,
absolute failure.
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I was okay.
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Well, I think-- okay.
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There's a qualification exam.
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I passed the qualification exam.
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Again, multiple choice, you know,
read the book, pass the exam.
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End up sitting in San Jose.
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Walking into my first CCIE exam,
looking at the rack of equipment
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and going "Wow" I've never
seen one of those before.
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That's a first on [inaudible],
you're not meant to be there.
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And just open the book, you know, they're like.
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Okay. Begin, click, click, you know,
the timer is started and I open the book
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and I'm just like and this is I am no way.
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And so, it was literally
eight hours of just playing
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around on Cisco devices I've never touch before.
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You know, of course, flying out, I'm
having the whole time like maybe I passed,
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maybe somehow I script by, man,
you know, get home, dismal failure.
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So I take a year of life and all this time,
I'm starting to get into the Cisco world,
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teaching all the CCNA and CNNP classes and
really, I mean really getting it out now.
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I'm really starting to understand and
filling a lot of the gaps by doing it,
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by having to create scenarios, you know, build.
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Starting to consult a little bit for people
that are standing up networks and really,
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I mean really starting to get it.
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So I've got a year of teaching, studying,
consulting between attempt one and two.
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So I scheduled the exam the second time.
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Fly out to Cisco, take the exam,
just feel awesome going through it.
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I'm like okay, I've got it.
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It makes sense.
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Okay. Got it.
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Okay. Great.
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Finish the exam early.
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I finish the CCIE, you know, probably
about half an hour early, you know.
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And then I'm looking, I'm like
okay, well now is my chance to go
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through and I guess test some things.
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And I'm feeling good.
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So I get out the exam.
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I'm calling family and friends.
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I'm like "Oh, thank you so much."
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I know I passed, you know, obviously,
I don't know until I get home.
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And they post my school reports.
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So, it's one of those nights and [inaudible]
I'll always remember I woke up literally at four
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in the morning-- the next morning just
staring at the ceiling and I was like I wonder
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if they have my score report posted.
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So I came in to the office and
pull up the school report online,
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and the CCIE in all its confidential
ways doesn't tell you a thing.
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I just logged in social security,
I mean, you failed.
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I'm like, what?
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You know, F5, F5, you know, by
then my wife has snuck in behind me
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and she's like "What are you doing up?"
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And I say, "I totally failed."
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I don't understand and that's
why I'm saying I'm confused.
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I still to this day I'm like I don't get it.
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I don't understand.
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And so, I'm like, you know, F5, refresh.
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I'm trying to understand why and I'm like this.
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There has to be a mistake.
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And so, I called Cisco the next day and I'm
like, I know there has to be-- I know I passed.
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And they say, "Well, I tell you what."
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There-- I can't even remember
how much it was but they're like.
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It's like something like 200 dollars.
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Like tell you want, we will regrade your
exam by hand for an extra 200 dollars.
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I'm like, done.
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As I put the credit card number
on the line, graded by hand.
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They comeback an hour later and
they're like "I'm sorry, you still fail
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but your score went up by like 20 points."
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I'm like "What?"
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You know, by then I'm like conspiracy,
they are just after my money.
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And then, you know, oh men,
it was a bad time of my life.
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I'm like, you know, I said, "Forget
Cisco, I'm done with this, you know."
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Okay. So after all, that settles down.
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I'm like, okay, I did not spend
a year of my life studying this,
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trying to get this, just to give up now.
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I was like I don't know why I didn't pass.
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This has been miserable but
I've got to try it again.
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So, a month later literally with no studying
at all, I did, I think some practice exams,
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you know, like practice labs,
but really, no real studying,
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a month later I go, take the exam.
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This time it's very wise not to call
anybody until you know you pass.
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And I get out and same feeling, I still
feel good but I don't call anybody.
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I fly home and by time I had flown
home back to Arizona, I logged in
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and they are like success, you pass.
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You've got your CCIE.
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And you know, there is-- I can't
even tell you the feeling, I mean,
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people are like, oh men, were you thrilled?
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No, I was just exhausted.
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I was-- it was like-- it was like running
a marathon and you reached the end.
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You're like I am done [inaudible]
and you just hit the ground.
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You're like, you're happy, you finish, you
know that you're going to be talking about this
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in a couple of weeks, but men,
right now, you're just hurt.
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And so that was the success of CCIE.
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So, and I shouldn't say, you know, between
attempt two and attempt three, in that month,
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it's looks like more than a month
because of the spread, but nonetheless,
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I'm beginning teaching-- writing books.
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So Pearson who's a big giant
publishing company got my name
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from actually a book I had created years ago.
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Microsoft ISA Server 2000,
I wrote that back in 1998.
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And so, they got my name
from there and I start--
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at that point, I started
writing some exam cram books.
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And Pearson being the giant company that they
are, does exam cram, they do Cisco press,
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I mean there's a lot of publishing [inaudible].
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So that's where I started--
I started writing books.
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Again, all of this-- so, you know, as I'm trying
to put all these pieces together actual hand.
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I don't want to go there yet.
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Let me put that thought at the end.
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Let me finish this journey.
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So, I began writing books,
started after CCIE, you know,
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started getting into the other
technologies like voice and security.
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Back then it was called the
CCVP and CCSP certifications.
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I got into those but there is just a huge
demand and still is for voice over IP.
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So that's where I start getting a
specialized and renewed my CCIE certification
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by passing the CCIE voice written.
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Now, this-- I have-- I've had people out there
like I heard you're like a nine times CCIE.
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I only have my CCIE currently
today in routing switching.
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People ask me all the time if I'm
going to get another CCIE in voice
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or security and I would say, "Maybe, maybe.
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If I really see a need for it, maybe."
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But I mean back-- I mean this
point right here was I'm married.
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No kids. Now I have four
children and more to come.
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So it's like when I started thinking about a
CCIM like wow, I can't just go in my closet
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for hours, and hours, and
hours at the time to study.
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It would be much more difficult.
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So I really have to see a need for that but,
you know, I have enough in voice and security
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that I'm like, I feel totally comfortable.
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And when you get one CCIE, I mean you really--
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I would say the biggest thing the
CCIE gives you is a lot of confidence.
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I mean you really feel like not
only do I have a good understanding
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of whatever topic I've got my CCIE in,
but you lose the fear of new stuff.
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You're kind of like, I've gone into so many
new things now that I know I can figure it out.
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And I just need some time, and I need
to, you know, play around with it.
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So, around 2004, I got into
Cisco consulting and that was
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where I went full-time Cisco consulting.
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I mean that was what I did and just got,
you know what, I still don't get this.
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My brother is our big gamers
and they used to be--
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I don't know if this phrase is still
around but down the shooter games.
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They're like, "Oh, men, you got poned,"
you know, and I was like, what's that mean?
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That's not even a real word.
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And they're like that means you got,
you know, destroyed, like they own you,
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like why don't you just say you got
owned but nonetheless [inaudible].
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So I got into Cisco consulting and
got poned into where, you know, I--
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that's where I was like, oh men, you know what?
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Just understanding the configuration
of things is not all you need.
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You need to understand things like
notification and outage windows and, oh yeah,
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don't type that during the business day.
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And I mean, just-- the amount of ignorant
mistakes I made in 2004 is absurd.
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So, wow, you know, talking about having a
real world drop in the pond at that point.
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So I started blog at the same
time, 2004, called CiscoBlog.
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And I don't know why I put that u,
it's just I get a fun story now,
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but run that for four years,
I think in 2008 or '09.
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Cisco contacted me and said, "You
can't use that domain name anymore."
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And I said, "Why not?"
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You know, because by then it's actually
it was in the tens of thousand, actually,
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hundreds of thousands of hits every week
just a lot and I had this little Google ads
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and those things can make some money.
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And I was actually making a descent income
off of CiscoBlog and I'm like just off that,
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you know, people that click the ads.
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And I was like well you can't take that away.
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And they go actually, did you know
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in the certification agreement,
you know, like clause B 59A6.
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They're like you cannot use any
Cisco trademark without authorization
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or else we'll strip all your
certifications from you.
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And I said, oh, so if I keep using CiscoBlog,
you're going take all my certifications?
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And they're like, yes.
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And I was well, there's the end of that.
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So, I posted on the website, I said,
you know, well, you know, it's been fun.
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Thanks, and Cisco is taking the
site from me, but you know, thanks.
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I didn't say anything derogatory but men,
the flurry that I cost and I ended up going
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on for Cisco's Facebook page like I
can believe you guys are doing it.
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And so now, Cisco legal contacted me initially
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but then Cisco customer relations
contacted me later that, oh what can we do?
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And I was like, I don't know.
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How about let me keep CiscoBlog.com?
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And they're like, well we can't do-- I mean,
again, let me boil the long story short.
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I found out later that I guess there was
some other company that was using Cisco
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in their name selling illegal or kind of
like third like knock off Cisco equipment.
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Like, you know, RAM that was not
authorized but they had Cisco
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in the names so it looks like Cisco.
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So they got busted, and they said, "Well, wait
a sec, that guy is doing it at CiscoBlog.com.
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So, I was kind like shrapnel.
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Like CiscoBlog died because
of the explosive of shrapnel
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on whatever website got nailed originally by
Cisco for doing all kinds of fragile and stuff.
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But nonetheless, I got a free t-shirt and now my
blog is called tekcert, T-E-K-C-E-R-T dot com.
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And I do that with another guy
named Adam who's just a great guy.
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So it's kind of like-- and there it is.
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What's next?
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I don't know.
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I started a company three years ago called
SchoolDesk and simply EasyIT that it's kind
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of like it does IT outsourcing
and things like that.
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And so, where do I go?
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I love training.
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I know I'm always going to do it and I just--
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whatever interesting technology
is there, that's where I'll go.
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But the future is always so fuzzy.
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So it's hard for me to even fathom
that, but let me go back to a point
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that I was going to make just a few minutes ago.
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And that is, what can you take away from this?
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I've laid my life of technology out before you.
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What can you grab from it?
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One thing that I've seen is
that when you are in a position,
435
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there is no replacing just
a genuine joy, enthusiasm,
436
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passion for what you're doing
and it's contagious.
437
00:24:03,976 --> 00:24:08,656
And people will realize, wow, you're really
here for something more than just a paycheck.
438
00:24:08,656 --> 00:24:12,576
I mean, now, if someone were to go
come here and be like, you know,
439
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down to this old Jeremy doing tech support
and say, Jeremy would you do this for free?
440
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I would laugh.
441
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I would say no.
442
00:24:19,726 --> 00:24:20,846
What are you thinking?
443
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You're crazy.
444
00:24:21,646 --> 00:24:22,896
Absolutely no.
445
00:24:22,896 --> 00:24:24,126
Why would I do that?
446
00:24:24,266 --> 00:24:26,926
Because back then, it was just the paycheck.
447
00:24:26,926 --> 00:24:30,046
I was going and [inaudible] doing tech
support and I don't really care so much.
448
00:24:30,046 --> 00:24:32,626
I just had to show up at this
time and left at this time.
449
00:24:33,046 --> 00:24:36,256
But now if somebody ask me, they
would say, would you do this for me?
450
00:24:36,256 --> 00:24:39,906
I mean, it's a loaded question
but kind of, I do it right now.
451
00:24:39,906 --> 00:24:42,896
I mean, I come home, there's weekends
where I'm like, you know what?
452
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I just want to reVLAN my house.
453
00:24:45,476 --> 00:24:49,166
So I want to move my IT room over
there because that'd be cool.
454
00:24:49,316 --> 00:24:55,426
You know, it's like this-- I want to setup a new
little NAS drive and put all my stuff in there
455
00:24:55,426 --> 00:24:58,766
and replicate that to-- I mean,
it's just, it's really interesting.
456
00:24:58,766 --> 00:24:59,746
It's intriguing to me.
457
00:24:59,746 --> 00:25:02,906
And so, when you have that interest and
when you're really excited about it,
458
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you'll be in a meeting and, you know,
they'll be like, well, you know,
459
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what do you think about that-- I mean even if
you're not in a technology related job, you can,
460
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you know, come to the management and you'll be
like, hey, I've got some ideas for the website.
461
00:25:13,506 --> 00:25:17,676
I think, you know, da, da, da, da
or you know, how you go routing--
462
00:25:17,676 --> 00:25:19,956
maybe we could setup like a
redundant internet connection.
463
00:25:19,956 --> 00:25:20,806
Do you think that'll be good?
464
00:25:20,806 --> 00:25:24,656
I mean, if you're really excited and
you're really enthusiastic about it,
465
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and you're-- I mean, they may shoot you down.
466
00:25:26,256 --> 00:25:28,136
They maybe like absolutely not.
467
00:25:28,136 --> 00:25:31,366
That's crazy but they'll at
least get the fact that man,
468
00:25:31,366 --> 00:25:33,746
this guy really-- he's really
interested in this.
469
00:25:33,746 --> 00:25:34,776
He's really excited about it.
470
00:25:34,776 --> 00:25:39,366
I wonder, you know, he's here for a little
bit more and that will carry you a long way.
471
00:25:39,366 --> 00:25:43,296
Now obviously, if it's a genuine, it's
like-- well, I was thinking, you know,
472
00:25:43,296 --> 00:25:47,946
trying to get shown up on the radar
and things like that, but anyway.
473
00:25:48,186 --> 00:25:49,986
So, second thing.
474
00:25:51,106 --> 00:25:57,846
In my career, I think almost every job I've
had has come from some relationship I've had,
475
00:25:57,846 --> 00:26:01,376
you know, maybe the first couple was from
a newspaper ad, but after that it was like,
476
00:26:01,376 --> 00:26:04,746
I know a guy who knows a guy, who
said, you know, such and such and such.
477
00:26:04,746 --> 00:26:09,596
So, never undervalue relationships
and the doors that they can open.
478
00:26:09,596 --> 00:26:12,846
I mean it's not like you're in relationships
to open doors, but wow, you know,
479
00:26:12,846 --> 00:26:16,696
as you gain relationships in
your career with coworkers,
480
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with management, with things like that.
481
00:26:18,116 --> 00:26:22,726
I mean, a lot of times you will see, you know,
a manager leaves and goes to another company,
482
00:26:22,726 --> 00:26:25,206
and he's like "Hey, you know,
come over, you know,
483
00:26:25,206 --> 00:26:27,576
this is great, and those doors are now open."
484
00:26:27,576 --> 00:26:29,586
So, huge thing there.
485
00:26:29,586 --> 00:26:34,686
Finally, I have seen a lot of doors
open for people through internships.
486
00:26:34,736 --> 00:26:37,856
So where they come to a company
and they're like, you know what?
487
00:26:37,896 --> 00:26:42,276
I don't have anything going on right now, but
I tell you what, I will absolutely come here,
488
00:26:42,276 --> 00:26:45,806
you know, maybe it's after hours, maybe it's
from one to four on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
489
00:26:45,806 --> 00:26:48,616
maybe when it's whenever, and I just
want to work for free, you know.
490
00:26:48,616 --> 00:26:50,486
I will recable something.
491
00:26:50,746 --> 00:26:55,176
I'll go install some equipment, you
know, I'll do some grant work, whatever.
492
00:26:55,446 --> 00:26:58,096
I just want to gain some
experience and gain a reference,
493
00:26:58,096 --> 00:26:59,516
you know, and if you do a really good job.
494
00:26:59,516 --> 00:27:02,466
If you actually show up when you say you're
going to show up and doing a great job, I mean,
495
00:27:02,466 --> 00:27:07,426
you walk away, I would say, at least with a name
and number to where you go to another place.
496
00:27:07,426 --> 00:27:08,816
And they're like, oh yeah, that guy is awesome.
497
00:27:08,816 --> 00:27:11,066
You'd be crazy, I would say at best.
498
00:27:11,066 --> 00:27:13,676
I've seen so many times where
somebody interns at a company.
499
00:27:13,676 --> 00:27:17,556
They're like, hey, I'm just here to volunteer
and I'll just help out in the evenings
500
00:27:17,556 --> 00:27:18,756
and weekends, and stuff like that.
501
00:27:19,106 --> 00:27:22,386
And before long, that company is
like wow, that person has become
502
00:27:22,386 --> 00:27:24,606
so valuable, like we can't lose them.
503
00:27:24,606 --> 00:27:29,156
We've got to hire them and again
doors open that were not previously--
504
00:27:29,156 --> 00:27:32,526
I've seen people intern on weekends for a year.
505
00:27:32,986 --> 00:27:35,196
They're like, "They would have
their normal job day to day."
506
00:27:35,676 --> 00:27:40,016
I'm telling you one guy in particular and
he literally volunteered every weekend
507
00:27:40,016 --> 00:27:41,786
for a year just to come in and do whatever.
508
00:27:41,786 --> 00:27:46,366
He would just, you know, recable some stuff,
reimage some computers, do that kind of thing.
509
00:27:46,716 --> 00:27:48,596
And everybody got to know him so well.
510
00:27:48,596 --> 00:27:51,776
It was like people would think you work
there, and you didn't even work there,
511
00:27:51,776 --> 00:27:54,086
but the company was like,
"Well, this is a no-brainer."
512
00:27:54,086 --> 00:27:55,606
We are absolutely hiring this guy.
513
00:27:55,606 --> 00:27:59,416
Now the guy is extremely
successfully in the technology field.
514
00:27:59,416 --> 00:28:05,916
So, again, just some weird thoughts I'm
having based of on where I've come from.
515
00:28:06,426 --> 00:28:12,126
I hope that you can grab something from this
and use it to advance your career especially
516
00:28:12,126 --> 00:28:15,556
if you're just getting your foot in
the door in the world of technology.
517
00:28:15,976 --> 00:28:16,356
All right.
518
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Well, I hope this has been informative
and I'd like to thank you for viewing.
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