My brain is full.
 

Is it possible to run out of room for learning? LOL

My company just signed me up for a CCNA program and some Juniper routing classes.

This is getting to be a bit tooooo much!

So far i have to know how to do Surveillance, hardware, translations and customer troubleshooting on Nortel, Lucent, and Siemans Class 5 switching platforms plus the Sonus Class 4 switching platform.

That is a whole crapload of stuff to know. Hell, in the past people would be working ONE aspect of ONE platform for 4-5 years before they would be ever remotely competant in it.

I have to know all 4 aspects of 4 different platforms.

Now my company is gonna send me to CCNA traning and Juniper router training.



im not bitchin tho... i mean... free CCNA cert... and Juniper training... but christ.... this is gonna burn me out eventually. I figured out about 3 yars ago all the classes ive had and training ive had, if i would have bought it on my own i would be sitting about 145,000 in debt.

Anyone else work in a severe knowledge based career? Hell, if i take a week off work it takes me about a week to get back to where i was knowledgewise before i even left.

Switching techs usually become unhireable after being unemployed for 4 months cause they cant keep retaining this crap.

Anyone else have to cope with a god damn mountain of technical information?

I dunno if this compares, but my training never stops...ever. BMW is always adapting new technology hence more problems. plus they change every car they make a min. of every 7 years. and the changes are huge....never only cosmetic.

Not comparable but I work at a traffic engineering firm where we develop software that enables our guys to gather roadway information from aerial photography of roads that we have the Dept. of Transportation fly. Our software allows us to see in 3d (stereo) on our monitors. We have to keep up with all the changes the D.O.T. does and make sure we know where to measure when we are building a roadway inventory. Local names, bridge numbers, shoulder type(s), width, roadway angles, roadway types (asphault, concrete, etc), median widths and type (lawn, painted, paved, etc), inside shoulders, outside shoulders, if it is curb and gutter, valley gutter, plain gutter, deleted roadway sections, sub sections, realignments on the road, bridge lengths and widths, U.S. road #'s, State Road #'s, County Road #'s. I run all this through another program and have to make a straight line diagram (SLD) out of it that allows me to fit all the information we inputed on 1-6 pages of 11x17 paper. I need to know where everything is supposed to fall in place and what road shields to use, what doesn't need to be there and what does. In the end..someone can take my 1-6 pages and drive down the road and be able to read and see each place the road has any slight change. You still with me? I do a lot of other stuff at work but that is the most confusing part because it is always changing.

I already learned all I need to know

all my car stuff
fishing
shooting
blowing stuff up

only thing i gotta work on is guitar... gotta be a rockstar... **** school