Be an engineer again

“The further I get from the things that I care about the less I care about how much further away I get” -The Cure.

12 August, 2007, before 12:01:24 AM.

I have just set the deadline…it’s November, 27, 2009 as my CCNA card will continue to be valid till that day.

I have to get this goal done ASAP or else I am afraid will probably have to give up on many other dreams. Well, for the time being, I am gonna be positive as much as I can and focus on getting this goal done…bot efficiently and quickly. I am gonna do my best and give all that I can. There should be no reason or excuse to fail.

It began today. I put the wheel back in motion for almost 2 hours. I braved my timidness today and opened the CCNA ICND course book and started reading. It was not a easy question to figure out where to begin. I started with the second part of the book (TCP/IP).

I should have plenty of time to get back on my feet again. For the first time since long, I don’t feel like I am in a race against time as the expiry date of my CCNA cert. ends in 2009.

Generally speaking, I have always felt intimidated by the idea of dusting myself off and starting over again; doing that definitely requires a great deal of courage in order to irst accept your badly injured & probably dying status-quo, acknowledge your wounds before being willing to undertake the pain inflicted by resuscitating your motives for living again. But this time around, it was not as intimidating as I thought it would be as I told myself that no-one is asking me to do any more or any better than the best I can do. No one has the right to.

Since I was working and still working in fields other than my domain (Engineering) where I think have what it takes to be distinguished in. I am gradually losing it…if not have I already lost almost all of it. I been away from it for a long time.

I don’t know how to convince life of how great and inventive engineer I would have been had I been given the chance. Still, it’s not over yet. I can retrieve what I have lost and clear the rust off the gems of my brain.

That of course requires a very wise strategy. I have to be wisely selective in terms of what to snatch back from oblivion. I have to concentrate my powers on two fields for now:

1. Programming.
2. Networking. “H.W. and configuration oriented”. —I already have a CCNA cert. but it goes without saying that I am in a bad need to refresh my memory and understanding of it all.

I need time and I am going to need to be surrounded by helpful and appreciative people.

,,If there’s a will there’s a way’’ I hope this turns out to be true.