Because for every horror story there are at least a hundred kick ass stories where I truly helped someone, where i did what everyone thought was impossible.

Then you have the day that Cletus in a backhoe runs over the fibre connection to a remote site and you have 50 people screaming at you.

At the CCNA level you won't be dealing with end users so your experience will be different than mine.

I think that I'll have to get some hands-on experience as an intern before gauging properly. You do make it sound both fun and frustrating as fuck, so that's probably the only way for me to decide. Thanks!

If you like challenges, puzzles, WTF's, solving complex riddles?

That's half of the reason behind why I study maths and physics! I love working my way through anything. The weirder and more confusing, the better.

certs

Hah. I'm mainly started doing it because I won a voucher for course of my choice at one IT training centre. If it will keep on being as cool as it is now (or I would get a good reason to get the fuck out of academia) I don't think I will feel satisfied with CCNA.

And for the love of all that is holy and decent in this life learn cable management like it is a new religious faith.

I'm actually already anal about it due to colour blindness. When most cables look to you either black, grey, blue or brown and people tell you that 'the orange one connects X to Y rack'… you buy a hand-labeler, zip-tie bands, and keep meticulous notes like an OCD freak. Instructor even remarked that I'm either a suck-up or top material for networking purely because how my station looks. ;)

If you would happen to have anything to add, I'm always happy to get more insights like the one you gave already. Thank you once more! :D