Goals in 2k8

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Main Goal:
To finish CCNA at college then do the Certs for it
Secondary:
To continue learning about oracle as i manage a 9i database and it is hard when you don't know.
and lastly to start learning more about ,Linux as we use nagios and squid and i don't know enough about it.
But most is to keep enjoying my job and gain loads of experience so the next move up the ladder is nice and big...

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

1. Finally get my A+ and N+ i've been putting off for so long!
2. Start MCSE 2003.
3. Cram in anything else that I can!!

 

Well I had my six month appraisal at my place on tuesday and I think my goals have been set for me. It's going to be a busy one!

Apple Training - March (Possible ACHDS exam to go with it)
VMWare Training - April (Possible VCP exam to go with it)
Cisco Wireless Training - May
CCENT - At some point this year
ITIL - In either April or June (I'd prefer june!)
Free MS Exam voucher - Needs using by April 30th so I'll prob have to study up for 70-270 before then (Its the only exam that I think I stand a chance of passing in the time frame, and it means that I'll be certified in every client exam since Windows 98!).

After all of that my boss said that I should maybe look into doing a certificate of management later on in the year!

Plus I've got three weddings to attend, a stag doo and a speach to write!

Busy? Its better than being bored!

 

Yep, just copy and paste something along the lines of this and you won't go wrong!

Hello everyone! Thanks for coming to this wedding roast.

Congratulations to INSERTNAMEOFBLOKEHERE and INSERTNAMEOFWOMANHERE.

#use this section to make a short yet witty joke about INSERTNAMEOFBLOKEHERE and a brief reference to something embarrassing about his past.

Thanks for coming. Bye!

There, now you have more time for your studying!

 

Goals in 2k8, wow good question. I don't even know where to start, there are so many things that I would like to accomplish that I don't even know if everything will get done. Alright lets see what the list has to offer this year:

Certifications:

290 - I've been procrastinating this for a few months now, it's time to get it over with.

291 - I'll hold of on that for now, I need some more experience, but experience is what I am hoping to get this year. Once I pass that exam I'll be an MCSA. Then I'll take a little break before getting any other certs till I get some good experience.

School:

Continue studying towards a Bachelors degree in business. My ultimate goal is to make my career business and IT combined. This of course is more a long term goal since I've just started.

 

get my 70-292 and then look at the Security+ , I did just say look, ok? ;-)

ideally i'd like to emigrate to Oz by the end of the year ... just have to see how that one works out

 

Short Term
Pass last MCSA Exam in June/July at the latest
Start getting fit and looking after myself better

Mid Term
Do Prince 2
Learn to Program a little and do my own website

Long Term
Get out of IT Support into a specialised area or IT managers role
Not drop dead due to stress

 

Short Term Goal: Pass 70-290 and 291 for the MCSA by the end of 2008.

 

Bah i missed this, and i love filling these in, oh well here goes lol

What i had planned for 2008 were:

Driving licence, new gf either MCSE or MCSA with CCNA, get out of debt, improve my health.

So far

Driving is on hold until i save up, want to do intensive course to pass this asap, i did have a few lessons a few years ago, so am hoping i pick it up quickly.

New GF? not yet, dumped the old one saturday, which has been a relief, so far ive enjoyed my "freedom" too much with way too much drink and no study, this will change as i miss the study lol.

MCSE, could achieve possibly, but im wanting to do either the exchange or AD certs, but this is once the CCNA is done, am just waiting for payday to order a CCNA kit off the web, am reading the books though, most of the theory is in place, just need to memorise commands and get my troubleshooting as good as possible, doing the CCENT exam then CCNA exam (as i seem to like collecting certificates now lol).

Get out of debt, paid of 5.5k of loan last payday, a bit skint now, but all thats left is an interest free graduate account (2K) which i have to pay 500 in before the end of the year.

My health is improving, my sleep patterns where the main problem, and this has improved in recent months, 6.30am starts every work day arent fun, but its a routine.

So yeah, i suppose im on course for achieving most things.

 

Ouch, six months in and I have done bugger all! although the pack up and move to the states has monopolized this half of the year!

Well gave up learning to drive in the UK a few months back, will have to learn the first four weeks I am stateside and its cheap as chips, so learning there (should have it sorted by end of July

1 left on MCSE route, I really progressed eh? lol

Move to the US confirmed and taking place this month, slows down a lot of the rest of the goals as my life has pretty much been on hold while I work on it :/

Side business is still flatlined

Professional network has grown a little, but not substantially

No programming power yet :/

None of the above (yet) eek

Well the 1Q bit really didnt work as planned, work was messy, finally left that place, visa progress was slow but complex, thats out the way now, MCSE should be done by the time I leave (or atleast attempted that last exam)

I'll keep u posted
a few changes were added since the beginning of the year too, trying very hard to lose 40KG as soon as possible, that will still put me over 100kg but much smaller and from there I will adjust from pure weight loss to weight loss / fitness

 

Managed to get the MCDST (by the end of March), and hopefully for the Net+ by the end of July (we'll see!)

In the process of doing that now. Applied for a system admin role but failed and just found out the two vacancies has now been changed to just one.
Just applied for another role, nice step up - here's hoping!

Getting lighter - more to watching what I'm eating than increasing exercise!
Photography - nailed another 3/4000 shots, some nice ones too
Friends - slow start but progressing.
Trustee - gimme time to sleep!!

ITIL - hopefully within the next couple of weeks - yay!

 

Figured I would provide an update now that we are wrapping the year up, time to get those last minute things in now I guess, and start to plan for 2k9 Goals
Seems it has been a much more productive year for me, I am going to try and squeeze in a few additions before the end of the year

Short Term 2k8
Start 2k8 Upgrades
Gain US Employment