Should have known better....
Nov. 11th, 2002 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnpalmerHere I'd expected to have another update in my journal the day after I'd made the one about feeling like the depression was lifting... and here it is, four days later, and I'm just getting to it.
Happily, my days have been filled quite nicely, and that's why I never got around to writing something here.
Okay, *UN*happily, some of that filling has come from Civilization III, my latest game addiction, but I had an 18 hour shift to work on Sunday, and that cured me of the addiction to some degree. (Don't ask how many of those 18 hours I used to fool around in the game... you really don't want to know.)
The good news is that I feel as if I'm filling in gaps in my routing knowledge as I seek out my CCNP (Cisco Certified Networking Professional, the next step after the CCNA, which I alread posess). I'm hoping (and I have good reason to expect this to be the case) that the switching material is easier than the routing. That'll leave me with the two hardest (and most important) exams of the four required done.
This might be important; there are changes at work, and they're not looking good. The one thing that worries me most is that the new boss wants to look at all the customer SLAs ("Service Level Agreements") to see what we've actually promised customers. "Have we actually promised them 24x7 remote hands on standby?" he's asked. Well, right now, we're providing that. If he decides we don't 'really' have to provide that, I'm imagining the next step will be layoffs.
(It's also *POSSIBLE* that he'll simply make the shifts a bit easier to bear, maybe providing no coverage for four to eight hours a day, with more dual coverage, so there's more room for vacations and sick time. I'm not saying that's not in his mind, but I really don't think it is.)
Keeping this in mind is helping me keep up with my studies, right now.
Happily, my days have been filled quite nicely, and that's why I never got around to writing something here.
Okay, *UN*happily, some of that filling has come from Civilization III, my latest game addiction, but I had an 18 hour shift to work on Sunday, and that cured me of the addiction to some degree. (Don't ask how many of those 18 hours I used to fool around in the game... you really don't want to know.)
The good news is that I feel as if I'm filling in gaps in my routing knowledge as I seek out my CCNP (Cisco Certified Networking Professional, the next step after the CCNA, which I alread posess). I'm hoping (and I have good reason to expect this to be the case) that the switching material is easier than the routing. That'll leave me with the two hardest (and most important) exams of the four required done.
This might be important; there are changes at work, and they're not looking good. The one thing that worries me most is that the new boss wants to look at all the customer SLAs ("Service Level Agreements") to see what we've actually promised customers. "Have we actually promised them 24x7 remote hands on standby?" he's asked. Well, right now, we're providing that. If he decides we don't 'really' have to provide that, I'm imagining the next step will be layoffs.
(It's also *POSSIBLE* that he'll simply make the shifts a bit easier to bear, maybe providing no coverage for four to eight hours a day, with more dual coverage, so there's more room for vacations and sick time. I'm not saying that's not in his mind, but I really don't think it is.)
Keeping this in mind is helping me keep up with my studies, right now.
