It's May 25th, 2026, Memorial Day, and I'm sitting at a table at my local wine bar in Downtown Phoenix with a glass of house red and my MacBook in front of me and this blank page in my Obsidian waiting to be filled. Six years ago we were in the initial months of a global pandemic which caused me to be out of work as a swim instructor, sitting behind a similar laptop with a real question circulating in my head. "I'm nearly 30 and doing odd jobs, how am I going to make a living for the rest of my life?" I had no college degree and no IT experience, so I did what the internet recommended and pursued a CompTIA A+ and a help desk job. Almost serendipitously, one night a good friend from high school called me out of the blue and asked me what I was up to. I told him I was applying for IT jobs, to which he recommended a network engineering training program he had tried to break into a few years prior. I applied and got the job. Fast forward six years to today. I'm now a consultant with Deloitte, a Big Four firm, with a CCNP: Enterprise under my belt looking for my next move, which I've decided is to pursue my Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE).
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