Congrats on finishing your certification! I'm sure you'll have the other two all set very soon.
Isn't it funny how we've fallen into the habit of always having the web at our fingertips? But during the holidays, I'm kind of enjoying the feeling of being disconnected, not always available, don't really care what kind of crap is going down at work... for part of my holidays this year, I was supposed to be "available in case anything comes up". It made me nervous and obsessive, and just about ruined any enjoyment in my "free time" I felt. The fact that what "came up" was a dumb thing that the person responsible really ought to know how to fix by himnself by now didn't help...
I know exactly what you mean. I chose not to be on call these two weeks because the money was not as important to me as not having that feeling hang over me. Even if nothing came in, I'd still have to be within 30 minutes of home, and I would have had to take my work laptop with me, and I'd constantly be worrying that something *would* come in, and then worrying if it *did* come in.... Too much.
And yes, probably half the stuff I deal with is things that either aren't to do with our product at all, or are questions that any of the three people in the chain before it reaches me should have been able to handle. Oddly, that ratio goes up the more important it is. (Or not really oddly, but annoyingly - nobody wants to take any chances.)
Did you get to give your coworker the traditional new year's slap upside the head when you got back in the office? :p
Glad to hear your time in California was well spent; congratulations on the test! It is always nice to disconnect from the internet occasionally, but I say this as a person who still doesn't own a cell phone, so I might be fractionally biased.
Congrats on the CCNA! Not an easy one :) I did a 5 day course for it 5 years ago when I was first getting into IT and found it challenging, but doable, just not really my main preference for what I wanted to do. I then never got around to studying for it because my first job didn't use it at all, and by the time I'd settled into my second job I'd forgotten much of the Cisco stuff and there were still other things that fit better that I could study for. Don't think I'll ever go down that route as networking doesn't interest me as much as applications and systems in general, but I respect anyone who's made it through :)
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Isn't it funny how we've fallen into the habit of always having the web at our fingertips? But during the holidays, I'm kind of enjoying the feeling of being disconnected, not always available, don't really care what kind of crap is going down at work... for part of my holidays this year, I was supposed to be "available in case anything comes up". It made me nervous and obsessive, and just about ruined any enjoyment in my "free time" I felt. The fact that what "came up" was a dumb thing that the person responsible really ought to know how to fix by himnself by now didn't help...
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And yes, probably half the stuff I deal with is things that either aren't to do with our product at all, or are questions that any of the three people in the chain before it reaches me should have been able to handle. Oddly, that ratio goes up the more important it is. (Or not really oddly, but annoyingly - nobody wants to take any chances.)
Did you get to give your coworker the traditional new year's slap upside the head when you got back in the office? :p
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May 2013 be an excellent year for you!
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Also, happy new year!
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