You are talking to me in language I understand. I am studying for my CCIE lab exam in February with the hope that I will be hired back into the computer networking field when the economy recovers. We are paying out of pocket for coverage through my wife's employer while she is on extended maternity leave. There must be a lot of us out there in roughly the same boat.
We shouldn't be here in the first place. An incredibly greedy and dishonest dotcom scam was perpetrated on American workers and investors by a elite cadre of pump and dump IPO houses, 401K fund managers and (IMO) disreputable business executives. Most were supporters of Bill Clinton, if I recall. The attack on Microsoft by the Clinton Justice Department was the payoff for all the support the Hambrechts and Adobes and blah blah gave Bubba in his 96 re-election. The destruction of NASDAQ can be EXACTLY traced to the day that Joel Klein and that idiot senile judge ruled against Microsoft. EXACTLY. Look it up. NASDAQ was at or around 4200 at the time. Jim Barksdale and Scott MacNeally can kiss my ass.
PogySailor - CCNP/CCDP