Goals for 2014

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I believe I was trying to answer that question in this thread, but that's only the beginning. Of course, I'm interested in learning the skill set, not so much earning any sort of certification.

Actually my number one professional goal for this year (not having achieved it last year), is to find a Knowledge Base or Document Management product that will meet the requirements I laid out in that LinkedIn group (I don't know if anyone can see that without being logged in...probably now).

I'm considering MindTouch but I looked at their product before and I'm not convinced they're right for my needs at work. I'll have to ping the sales guy this week to talk it over (and I'm not really keen on sales guys).

If I can achieve those two goals, I'll be happy.

 

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I have not seen a post for this yet, so I thought I would do the honours...

It is a new year – typically a time of setting goals for many areas of life personal and professional. What goals have you set yourself for the next 365 days (certification or other)? As for my goals, they are as follows:

Certs: ITIL (a necessary evil...), CCNA (mostly ready, but Cisco put the new exams in place while I was revising so I thought I would wait) and MCSA Server.

Academia: Complete my Diploma of Higher Education in Computing and IT and forge on to the BSc.

Personal: Change job and postcode

 

Modest ones for me this year as work has me being busy busy busy, looking to upgrade my CCEE to a CCP and then to CCE, then also looking to get a VCP-DT as well.

Personal ones maybe get a bit lighter, have loads of quality time with the family buy a Jag XF

 

I guess i will work to finish the CCNP , then CCNA security hopefully if more time is available i will post the rest of my goals

 

Seeing as my goals for 2013 were an almost total washout its time to try again for 2014!

Certification: LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 as well as a proper attempt at the MCSA: Server 2012. All in an effort to ensure I can deal with whatever gets thrown at me server side.

Personal: Change job and move house. Rebuild lab server, rebuild and make better use of my personal website, get back in to the hobbies I've left behind and generally do more than just sit on my arse every evening watching telly.

 

I will be finishing up my thoroughly useful philosophy and history degree this year, so not getting a humiliating grade on my final philosophy course is about the limit of my expectations until the summer. After that I really need to sort out this empty hole in my CV where an MCSE ought to be.

Maybe I will also write my First Great Novel, or draw my First Stupid Comic, whichever seems more fun at the time.

 

Deal. I make it a point of principle to just do whatever women tell me to. Except the one time when a girl thought I was wearing a rubbish suit, she said I should try saying "I am a tiger" in front of a mirror when trying out replacements. That, it turns out, is my line in the sand.

 

Not too much pressure this year so I'm just going to quietly learn some firewalls.
Might do the CCNA Security and CCDA though...