CCNP took me about 1 year to complete...I did fail the routing once...$200 blown.
a CCIE is more like bragging rights(at least for me) since the CCNP can get you close to a CCIE salary.
It's a hard exam be warned.
How many Coli brehs/brehettes really making $100K?
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a CCIE is more like bragging rights(at least for me) since the CCNP can get you close to a CCIE salary.
It's a hard exam be warned.
Please direct me toward ccnp study materials
Texas or Louisiana
Retired Military
Logistics: Fuel/Water
I have a GI bill i have yet to utilize as well as resources to start my own business
thanks for the info
Here are some links...
http://www.ciscopress.com/markets/detail.asp?st=44734
http://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training-videos/cisco-routing-switching#
it depends on the kind of person you are to pick which study method works for you.
I prefer watching video tutorials and then reading the books.
Some people just like reading the books...either way find your strong suit and stick with it.
I do and y'all make too much of this topic.
No matter how much money you make it will always seem like not enough if you think that way. The bigger goal is to have a better personal quality of life. A better purpose.
Money is not the end all be all.
No matter how much money you make it will always seem like not enough if you think that way. The bigger goal is to have a better personal quality of life. A better purpose.
Money is not the end all be all.
I make.more than 100k
Just not in a year though
Just not in a year though
I broke $100k when I was 22. I had a consulting management company I started in college at USC during my physical therapy from ball and I met my business partner. I was already years deep into investments, promotions and management. Everything came together as far as assets at 22 and took off within that year.
Then my fiancé was killed, I killed dude. After retaining a a top fed attorney for my state case, carrying a mortgage for a new condo I never even got a chance to move into and couldn't sell because it was in the middle of the recession and subsequently selling at a loss and using my savings to clear it as to not declare bankruptcy, plus a previous business lawsuit I settled while I was locked up for a contract issue from the previous year, losing another lawsuit against Allstate for not covering my car getting stolen and taking care of my fiance's mom's hospital bills etc....shyt was all types of bad. All that basically broke me but my lawyer got me a decent sentence. Was locked up from 2007-2012, came home and had about $10k left over and couldnt find a job for a year. Can't work in finance anymore. Hell, can't work for corporate in general anymore with a conviction in my file now, let alone a violent one. I was gone too long to use my LA or Atlanta connects to tie down a position of merit. A friend of mine who used to work for me is a VP at an investment firm, got me in off the strength of my resume but during the background check, his boss said "Your quals are great but I'm very disappointed that we can't keep you on. The board sees you as a liability regarding our transparency with current and potential investors." blah blah blah.
I decided to get into social work with AA/NA because of how it affected my life. A drunk driver took my family's life and had someone been there to keep that man sober somehow, then no one's lives wouldve been damaged by his actions. I chose to be someone that helps these addicts and drunks in the community that they tear apart. I tell them all the time, "I'm not like everyone else in this field. I'm not here for you. I don't give a shyt about you, I don't care about your life. I'm here to help the people's lives you affect and destroy. And if helping you will save lives, then I will help you as best as I can." I'm the Administrator for an organization on the Southside of Chicago. I make shyt here, about $33k before taxes. I work directly under the owner/director and he ain't shyt. I'm kinda stuck here because the job runs me ragged and looking for a job when you already work a 9-5 is damn near impossible.
Its hard to be where I am, coming from where I was. My family and my girl having a few issues that I couldve easily made better in the past. Or worse, having things fall apart because of what I feel is my ineptitude. It isnt. It's just my pride making me feel the pains of my ungraceful fall from grandeur. I went from a wunderkind at 21 with the experience and network of someone 10-12yrs my senior and just as I started to see the real fruits of my labor and sacrifices, my prime years of securing my future were spent in a corrupt judicial system when I was needed most. I had so much responsibility to the people in my life. Having succeeded so early makes the time and circumstances that were taken from me THAT much more disheartening when I compare it to where I am now and my lowered trajectory in life. I'm seeking a new route to security and in the process of finding my potential again. I know its there by how unsatisfied I am by my current situation. I believe you never LOSE potential, you may just LOSE SIGHT of it but it's always there. You can feel it. People that didn't know me before, say "I can tell you are going somewhere. You have so much potential etc" I just say thank you with a smile but its bitter because all I'm thinking is "If you only knew. I've been to 'where I was going' and back already. You are just seeing the rematch."
So nah, I'm not in the $100k club anymore, I make a third of that now and shyt sucks.
Then my fiancé was killed, I killed dude. After retaining a a top fed attorney for my state case, carrying a mortgage for a new condo I never even got a chance to move into and couldn't sell because it was in the middle of the recession and subsequently selling at a loss and using my savings to clear it as to not declare bankruptcy, plus a previous business lawsuit I settled while I was locked up for a contract issue from the previous year, losing another lawsuit against Allstate for not covering my car getting stolen and taking care of my fiance's mom's hospital bills etc....shyt was all types of bad. All that basically broke me but my lawyer got me a decent sentence. Was locked up from 2007-2012, came home and had about $10k left over and couldnt find a job for a year. Can't work in finance anymore. Hell, can't work for corporate in general anymore with a conviction in my file now, let alone a violent one. I was gone too long to use my LA or Atlanta connects to tie down a position of merit. A friend of mine who used to work for me is a VP at an investment firm, got me in off the strength of my resume but during the background check, his boss said "Your quals are great but I'm very disappointed that we can't keep you on. The board sees you as a liability regarding our transparency with current and potential investors." blah blah blah.
I decided to get into social work with AA/NA because of how it affected my life. A drunk driver took my family's life and had someone been there to keep that man sober somehow, then no one's lives wouldve been damaged by his actions. I chose to be someone that helps these addicts and drunks in the community that they tear apart. I tell them all the time, "I'm not like everyone else in this field. I'm not here for you. I don't give a shyt about you, I don't care about your life. I'm here to help the people's lives you affect and destroy. And if helping you will save lives, then I will help you as best as I can." I'm the Administrator for an organization on the Southside of Chicago. I make shyt here, about $33k before taxes. I work directly under the owner/director and he ain't shyt. I'm kinda stuck here because the job runs me ragged and looking for a job when you already work a 9-5 is damn near impossible.
Its hard to be where I am, coming from where I was. My family and my girl having a few issues that I couldve easily made better in the past. Or worse, having things fall apart because of what I feel is my ineptitude. It isnt. It's just my pride making me feel the pains of my ungraceful fall from grandeur. I went from a wunderkind at 21 with the experience and network of someone 10-12yrs my senior and just as I started to see the real fruits of my labor and sacrifices, my prime years of securing my future were spent in a corrupt judicial system when I was needed most. I had so much responsibility to the people in my life. Having succeeded so early makes the time and circumstances that were taken from me THAT much more disheartening when I compare it to where I am now and my lowered trajectory in life. I'm seeking a new route to security and in the process of finding my potential again. I know its there by how unsatisfied I am by my current situation. I believe you never LOSE potential, you may just LOSE SIGHT of it but it's always there. You can feel it. People that didn't know me before, say "I can tell you are going somewhere. You have so much potential etc" I just say thank you with a smile but its bitter because all I'm thinking is "If you only knew. I've been to 'where I was going' and back already. You are just seeing the rematch."
So nah, I'm not in the $100k club anymore, I make a third of that now and shyt sucks.
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Doing what in the oil and gas industry..... what could brothers do?
I know this sounds foolish... but i'm tried of IT. I make over 6figures..... but the fact that everyone I know and my brothers n them are all in it...
makes me want to do something else.
i'm still trying to figure out how 100k became the mythological # on this site.I'm sure you could write a book on this topic.
as george carlin said, "people like using round numbers, makes things sound official!"
I broke $100k when I was 22. I had a consulting management company I started in college at USC during my physical therapy from ball and I met my business partner. I was already years deep into investments, promotions and management. Everything came together as far as assets at 22 and took off within that year.
Then my fiancé was killed, I killed dude. After retaining a a top fed attorney for my state case, carrying a mortgage for a new condo I never even got a chance to move into and couldn't sell because it was in the middle of the recession and subsequently selling at a loss and using my savings to clear it as to not declare bankruptcy, plus a previous business lawsuit I settled while I was locked up for a contract issue from the previous year, losing another lawsuit against Allstate for not covering my car getting stolen and taking care of my fiance's mom's hospital bills etc....shyt was all types of bad. All that basically broke me but my lawyer got me a decent sentence. Was locked up from 2007-2012, came home and had about $10k left over and couldnt find a job for a year. Can't work in finance anymore. Hell, can't work for corporate in general anymore with a conviction in my file now, let alone a violent one. I was gone too long to use my LA or Atlanta connects to tie down a position of merit. A friend of mine who used to work for me is a VP at an investment firm, got me in off the strength of my resume but during the background check, his boss said "Your quals are great but I'm very disappointed that we can't keep you on. The board sees you as a liability regarding our transparency with current and potential investors." blah blah blah.
I decided to get into social work with AA/NA because of how it affected my life. A drunk driver took my family's life and had someone been there to keep that man sober somehow, then no one's lives wouldve been damaged by his actions. I chose to be someone that helps these addicts and drunks in the community that they tear apart. I tell them all the time, "I'm not like everyone else in this field. I'm not here for you. I don't give a shyt about you, I don't care about your life. I'm here to help the people's lives you affect and destroy. And if helping you will save lives, then I will help you as best as I can." I'm the Administrator for an organization on the Southside of Chicago. I make shyt here, about $33k before taxes. I work directly under the owner/director and he ain't shyt. I'm kinda stuck here because the job runs me ragged and looking for a job when you already work a 9-5 is damn near impossible.
Its hard to be where I am, coming from where I was. My family and my girl having a few issues that I couldve easily made better in the past. Or worse, having things fall apart because of what I feel is my ineptitude. It isnt. It's just my pride making me feel the pains of my ungraceful fall from grandeur. I went from a wunderkind at 21 with the experience and network of someone 10-12yrs my senior and just as I started to see the real fruits of my labor and sacrifices, my prime years of securing my future were spent in a corrupt judicial system when I was needed most. I was so much to the people in my lifeHaving succeeded so early makes the time and circumstances that were taken from me THAT much more disheartening when I compare it to where I am now and my lowered trajectory in life. I'm seeking a new route to security and in the process of finding my potential again. I know its there by how unsatisfied I am by my current situation. I believe you never LOSE potential, you may just LOSE SIGHT of it but it's always there. You can feel it. People that didn't know me before, say "I can tell you are going somewhere. You have so much potential etc" I just say thank you with a smile but its bitter because all I'm thinking is "If you only knew. I've been to 'where I was going' and back already. You are just seeing the rematch."
So nah, I'm not in the $100k club anymore, I make a third of that now and shyt sucks.
good for you for killing dude.
and imma PM you something to maybe help
I've thought about that industry for awhile. My father's college buddy works from a company that is doing work on a rig in Corpus Christi. If you have any information to help get my foot in the door, I'd gladly accept it breh.
good for you for killing dude.
and imma PM you something to maybe help
Much obliged breh.
Malik
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I broke $100k when I was 22. I had a consulting management company I started in college at USC during my physical therapy from ball and I met my business partner. I was already years deep into investments, promotions and management. Everything came together as far as assets at 22 and took off within that year.
Then my fiancé was killed, I killed dude. After retaining a a top fed attorney for my state case, carrying a mortgage for a new condo I never even got a chance to move into and couldn't sell because it was in the middle of the recession and subsequently selling at a loss and using my savings to clear it as to not declare bankruptcy, plus a previous business lawsuit I settled while I was locked up for a contract issue from the previous year, losing another lawsuit against Allstate for not covering my car getting stolen and taking care of my fiance's mom's hospital bills etc....shyt was all types of bad. All that basically broke me but my lawyer got me a decent sentence. Was locked up from 2007-2012, came home and had about $10k left over and couldnt find a job for a year. Can't work in finance anymore. Hell, can't work for corporate in general anymore with a conviction in my file now, let alone a violent one. I was gone too long to use my LA or Atlanta connects to tie down a position of merit. A friend of mine who used to work for me is a VP at an investment firm, got me in off the strength of my resume but during the background check, his boss said "Your quals are great but I'm very disappointed that we can't keep you on. The board sees you as a liability regarding our transparency with current and potential investors." blah blah blah.
I decided to get into social work with AA/NA because of how it affected my life. A drunk driver took my family's life and had someone been there to keep that man sober somehow, then no one's lives wouldve been damaged by his actions. I chose to be someone that helps these addicts and drunks in the community that they tear apart. I tell them all the time, "I'm not like everyone else in this field. I'm not here for you. I don't give a shyt about you, I don't care about your life. I'm here to help the people's lives you affect and destroy. And if helping you will save lives, then I will help you as best as I can." I'm the Administrator for an organization on the Southside of Chicago. I make shyt here, about $33k before taxes. I work directly under the owner/director and he ain't shyt. I'm kinda stuck here because the job runs me ragged and looking for a job when you already work a 9-5 is damn near impossible.
Its hard to be where I am, coming from where I was. My family and my girl having a few issues that I couldve easily made better in the past. Or worse, having things fall apart because of what I feel is my ineptitude. It isnt. It's just my pride making me feel the pains of my ungraceful fall from grandeur. I went from a wunderkind at 21 with the experience and network of someone 10-12yrs my senior and just as I started to see the real fruits of my labor and sacrifices, my prime years of securing my future were spent in a corrupt judicial system when I was needed most. I had so much responsibility to the people in my life. Having succeeded so early makes the time and circumstances that were taken from me THAT much more disheartening when I compare it to where I am now and my lowered trajectory in life. I'm seeking a new route to security and in the process of finding my potential again. I know its there by how unsatisfied I am by my current situation. I believe you never LOSE potential, you may just LOSE SIGHT of it but it's always there. You can feel it. People that didn't know me before, say "I can tell you are going somewhere. You have so much potential etc" I just say thank you with a smile but its bitter because all I'm thinking is "If you only knew. I've been to 'where I was going' and back already. You are just seeing the rematch."
So nah, I'm not in the $100k club anymore, I make a third of that now and shyt sucks.
Damn, breh...I feel for you.
I know I sound like Captain Obvious right now but, have you thought about starting another business? If you were smart enough to make money at 22, you're surely smart enough to do it again. Maybe the consulting management thing is out the door due to your conviction but, what about something else?
Much obliged breh.
nikka, check your pm.
thank me later..
get money n fukk hoes and forget about all that fukk shyt that happened... jail time, going broke, murking people who def deserve it..... some of us done all that and don't think about it.....cuz life is good.
but make sure you pm me when your shyts bounced back doe.
peace.