Originally Posted by Herb Kornfield

I'm on the path to CCIE as my end game.... So far its not that bad at all, just after doing classes a few hours a day, working in Mainstream IT, then my projects in adult, THEN re-reading some Cisco materials ..... its an 18 hour day, 7 days a week ...

In the long run = Totally worth it for the pain now of never sleeping without dreaming of routing, switching and packets dancing in my head.