Reading Time: 4 minutesI’m going to say we all (or at least most of us) start out working humble at odd jobs, restaurants, retail, etc. I’m no exception having done roofing, gas station attendant, press board manufacturer for peg boards, Jimmy Johns sandwich maker. Those jobs were all the same. Show up to work, say “Hi” to your …
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Microsoft AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals) My Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesBack (way to long ago) when I got laid off one of the first things I did was buy a couple of books and then looked online. Udemy had a sale going on so I bought a couple of courses. One of them being a course for AZ-900. One of the books was for AZ-900. …
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Low/No budget studying
Reading Time: 3 minutesBeing unemployed I’ve found it very difficult to study or stay up to date on things so I wanted to share some of my tips and tricks to keeping up when you don’t have the funds to buy training course subscriptions and books or gear. The first thing I can say is look at youtube. …
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What a trip!
Reading Time: 7 minutesSo I chose to tweet if I should write a post about how I got to where I am. I got a bit of feed back to do it so here it goes. It all started growing up as a kid. My dad spent his entire career at the telco. He started out climbing poles …
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Quick Take: Continued Learning
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBeing in my current situation I am jobless. In fact I’ve been jobless for the longest I’ve ever been and the lack of interest in my job site profiles is really starting to bother me to the point that it’s just racing thoughts all around my brain about all sorts of different focal points. One …
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Quick Take: Whiteboard on Webex
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a quick take blog post on my preferred white boarding method on Webex (Or other meeting platforms). It’s quite simple but has a nice benefit. With the Work From Home (WFH) increase and the use of sharing your screen more and more white boarding ideas/sample diagrams was always difficult for me with a …
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What Happened? I’m Back!
Reading Time: 2 minutesTL:DR…..I needed some self care and checked myself into a hospital Okay, A lot of people noticed I disappeared for a hot minute or two and you know what?……I’m not ashamed to tell you why. I know that some of you were quite worried about me and to that point I have to say I …
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Burnout or just a Reset? – It’s Okay it Happens
Reading Time: 6 minutesRecently I found myself struggling with something. I couldn’t really put my finger on what exactly it was but my motivation seems to have vanished throwing me into a terrible feeling of purgatory. You may have noticed if you follow me on social media as I just haven’t been terribly active in the last little …
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Cisco Live 2019 – On Site – Last Minute Checklist
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s crunch time! Many of you may have already left for a few extra days before the event, others aren’t leaving until this weekend. Either way, there are a few things you want to be sure you have on hand and ready for Cisco Live in San Diego!
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Cisco SD-WAN ISR 4k Getting Started – Part 2 – Bootstrap Process
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Bootstrap Process In the Part 1 of this series we covered the first step to converting and ISR from IOS-XE onto the Cisco SD-WAN platform. We will continue from there with my story of frustrations and the discovered caveats and need to knows. Starting first with bootstrapping the ISR.
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