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December 08, 2001

I'm Studying...

Okay - the pressure is on. It's getting down to the wire. The free voucher expires at the end of this month. Tracy has declared that Spencer's on "holiday" from homeschool for the rest of the month - to give me a break. It's time for some hard studying.

I've poured through only 600 pages of the 1500 page book. I have to do better than that. I have to get 300-500 pages a day digested. There are more psychological obstacles than intellectual ones. I already know NT. 2000 isn't all that much different. It's not like I'm starting from scratch. I have folders in my brain with the old material. All it needs is a distributed update. Speaking of distributed...how about that Dfs? *shakes head*

I'm calling Sylvan first thing on Monday morning to schedule the exam. I hope I don't have to travel too far to get a seat. I know I waited until the last minute. I'm like that. *shrug*

The psychological obstacles:

I've been out of work for a very long time. I can rationalize it by saying I don't have my 2000 cert...and if I just got that, I'd have a job.
What if I get the cert and still can't find anything?

I've passed every Microsoft test I've taken on the first shot. What if I don't pass this test? I'd have to pay and take 4 separate tests. I can't take the test over. You only get one shot at it.

What if my MS cert gets me a job and I'm stuck/pidgeon-holed into LAN admin instead of WAN admin and network engineering/administration (which is my real passion)...?

What if this cert *does* lead to a job -- but at a much lesser pay than I was making? Does that mean I'm "worth" less? How do I deal with the psychological ramifications of that? How do I deal with working so hard to get a spot two steps down from where I was???? Is that progress? Is the hard work worth it???

Posted by BlueWolf on December 8, 2001 04:53 PM