Re: Ben's Training
Is this just lip service from you and your work? I suspect that's the case. If this was my company and I offered self improvement to staff and they refused. Well, Dave C has a queue called the unemployed, full of folks wanting to self improve, I would certainly be looking at swopping some. On the other hand, someone asking to self improve but not giving the opportunity that was promised, seems a little odd. Or are you thinking you have the easy life now? Yes, that may be the case I suspect.
In life if you want to do something then you just do it. People say no, do it anyway. Not continuing your education right now will be the biggest mistake you could make. (you've had the laziest education known to man) The rut that is life gets deeper the longer you stay on the same course.
When it's deep it's hard to get out...
Your mums life is an example, training and learning gave her a level playing field to go anywhere doing what she wanted to do. i.e. no ruts, she's now found were she's at and wants to be, she's in a rut and in a few years will have no way out; things move on. Your mum is in a happy place so all is good, she is very happy doing what she does. You see, Good ruts and bad ruts. Question is, have you found a happy rut?
Your aspirations are very low at times. To progress you need to self improve, courses are not everything, but in a life working with evolving technology all around, to stay ahead you need to learn. Do you have the staying and learning power to do it?
A change in your life pattern can only be good. Work/Girlfriend balance... Lol....
Should be Work/ Girlfriend/ friends/ Education/ Fun/ God?.. In your trade, you learn now and get good now, if you don't you'll stay where you are and get left behind. So many movies out there, captain of the football team, everything going for him, lets it slide and is in a dead end job by the time he's 40. Friends and education go hand in hand, so you don't learn on your own, class mates help and support each other. It's great to be part of.
Time to man up lad...
Where do you want to be in 5 years? Doing what? For what purpose?
Decide what YOU want to do. If its plod on then do that. If it's succeed and improve and get good and technical then do it.
OU do degrees, so do other uni's, they're not easy peasy though. A lot of hard work. There is NOTHING stopping you. You have a massive slush fund, yes MASSIVE. Your insurance payment finishes in February, there's the money for CCNA, Microsoft, degree, mcp, TCP, BA, MA, ba ha..
The thing stopping you may just be fear, get a hold on it. Get yourself on a course and pay for it or learn the CCNA at home in three months, use my books, packet tracer and online resource, no excuse. For crying out, that's all the course is. Trust me, I've done it. First though decide what you want to do, is this course the right one?
3rd line at 35, pmsl. Manager of 3rd line, HOD of third line, yes, that's aspiration, may not be yours, but you could have a better one, I don't know. How many calls answered in 16 years? My bet is after one year you'll be bored rigid.
So, Now, get on the rocket that's firmly up your arse and do something!
Quote of someone going nowhere "I dun my lernin, I ave".
Don't let this be you! ......Anymore!
Anyways, time to go....
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Blast off..... We have lift off, the rocket and all futures have the left building.
Me: whilst looking skyward says. "I do hope he's on there" Out!
Sent from iPad. The choice of a doer not a sit and do nothinger. They have Samsung.
On 20 Jan 2012, at 13:23, Ben wrote
> Hello,
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> I'm afraid I wont be doing my CCNA Certification nor my MCSE Certification this year.
> There are not enough people who have applied to do it, therefore they are not willing to spend the money. I think there was just me who applied for the MCSE Certifcation and x5 of us who applied to do the CCNA.
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> Heather states that she hadnt replied to my emails, as she was chasing up the people who applied, to see if they were still willing to participate in the training. Many people just couldnt be arsed.. and now I have taken the fall. My only option now is too buy the Books, pay for the exam and do them myself.
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> From what I have heard.. the MCSE Certification costs around £500 and the CCNA costs around £1000+. *** Dad, do you have to pass x3 exams to gain a CCNA Cert ? ***
> I'm a bit gutted.. but life's life :)
> See you when you get home :)
> Ben xx
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