My social life was non-existent at this point as all I was focussed on was making sure the next time, I took that exam I passed.
I then spent the next 6-8 weeks studying super hard, before and after work and on the weekends. Yep as you can probably guess I did not pass the first time – I think that in my first attempt I got around the 50% mark – which I will admit was very disheartening as I thought I had put in a fair amount of work to prepare for the exam but I think that if you ask anyone who has taken a Cisco exam before – there’s not much else out there like a Cisco exam, but once you had taken your first one and get a feel to how the questions are asked and worded you know what to prepare for. Not discouraged by this I realised that I was going to have to put a lot more of my own time into studying for this and after a few months I thought I was ready to take the exam. I soon found out as shortly into day 1 with little to none prior Cisco knowledge or experience, pretty much most of what the instructor was saying may as well have been Japanese and what I was being shown at first to me looked like I was getting ready to enter the Matrix! So, I booked myself onto a 5-day Cisco CCNA boot camp course thinking – how hard can this be? Well. I was now in my early 20s, still doing the wireless support role and had been advised “you should get your CCNA Routing and Switching” by a few of the senior guys at Sky – and at this point I had one eye on moving up to becoming a Wi-Fi engineer and knew this would be a good step in the right direction to enable me to move up to this position. From working in a support role for wireless I started to learn quickly what common issues there would be with Wi-Fi and more often than not it would come down to a cleaner unplugging the router to plug in their hoover or the magic of “can you turn it off and back on please” 😀 Fortunately, I was successful, and this is where my love for Wi-Fi really started. I did that for a couple of years and then applied for a role as a wireless support engineer at Sky (The Cloud). At the end of the training course you take a test and if you pass it they then start to recruit you out to their contacts – which I did and so my first job in the industry was to be a field engineer driving around to various shopping centres to fix different types of equipment such as hand held terminals (HHTs) and printers.
#I am a super sneaky ninja Pc
So after that I went on a IT training course that taught you the basics for PC builds and networking.
#I am a super sneaky ninja how to
So how and what made you get into Wi-Fi? A relative of mine who was quite techie/ geeky showed me how to build and upgrade a computer when I was about 16 which I found interesting and then he showed me how to build and design my own website. Hey, at the time of writing this post, I am 28 years old (Jan 2019) and have a love for all things Wi-Fi 🙂 Jan 2020 – I am super happy to announce that I have passed the CWAP exam and achieved CWNE & CWNT status! CWNE #369 I totally enjoy webinaring, podcasting, blogging, training and consulting 🙂 And that’s exactly what we do with my fellow Ninja Mac! Hey! I’m Matt Starling WiFi Ninja, CWNE #369, Director of Ekahau University & Product Marketing at Ekahau!
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