Paralyzed.

As the title says, this is how being a CCIE candidate can feel sometimes, most times - all the time.

My wife, she is a Neonatal nurse, work in the NICU. Basically she works with the premature babies that are born and can start an IV in veins that are the size and thickness of a needle....using a needle. While that is impressive in itself, it's not what I wanted to say but hey there it is.

My REAL point is this. Her and I were talking and our daily conversation always ends up with me talking about the CCIE, bless her heart for dealing with it. We were talking about College and nursing school. When most people go to college, some know what they want, some don't. She knew she was going to nursing school after college (that's how it is 3 years college, finish with 2 years nursing school) she basically took things one year at a time.

She did not have a FULL blueprint of EVERYTHING she had to learn before she could graduate.

I seperated that above line to toss a point out there. I don't know if knowing or not knowing EVERYTHING you have to do is a good or bad thing. On one hand, if everything is given to you then you can set the pace and milestones for how you want to tackle it.

On the other hand if you don't know and have some kind of "structure" of a class environment spoon feeding you information and only giving you pieces, don't know if this good or not.

Either way, it's tough. There is so much damn information on the CCIE RS that it can paralyze you. So much information that even though you know what you got to do, it's hard to do it as what you do makes such small tiny tiny dents in the overall scheme of things in terms of your learning.

Yikes. Some people know what I am talking about, some people don't. Either way

THE CCIE AIN'T NO SIPPIN TEA.

Basically sippin tea vs non sippin tea means that instead of sipping on some beverage, you pound it down as quick as possible.