What a week….
And another one to come…
So in my ultimate scheme, with me retiring after the kids are through college, and me being a CTO of some fortune 500 company, or startup, I have to meet certain requirements. No CTO out there is fresh off the street and knows nothing about technology. They’ve been armpit deep in it since DOS was the ‘kick ass’ operating system…
So, to get one of the thousand blocks checked off so that one day I too can retire rich and not so famous, I have decided to get myself a couple credentials (finally). Ultimately, I have to get about a dozen more (sadly enough), but they won’t involve a bootcamp….Yep, I kind of skipped over that, didn’t I. I have enrolled into a bootcamp for 2 weeks to have a library’s worth of stuff crammed into my head, so that (hopefully) I can regurgitate it back out in the form of an x in a box on a test.
Goddamn…I know most of this stuff. I’m a little rusty I have to admit, but it’s like a bike, get back into it for a day or two and it’s all there. So, ultimately, it’s not the actual knowledge that is hampering me…it’s studying for the test…
Let me explain.
Microsoft, it seems, was in the Army. It doesn’t matter if you are really really really good at your job, the Army will give you a test with arbitrary, outdated, and insane questions, give you answers that don’t even relate to the question, and expect you to pass. These tests aren’t quite that bad, but they can make a really good admin who knows his stuff feel really dumb. It’s annoying.
So now, after reviewing roughly 10,000 pages of printed material from MS, on a whole slew of domains, I have to now review about that many questions on practice tests, figure out how they word them, figure out what they’re asking…..dig through the 10 pounds of shit data in the question to find the one golden nugget question they’re really asking…
My brains are leaking. I feel perpetually hung over, getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night. I think I know less now than when I got here, or it’s all stuck in my brains L2 cache and is being processed….that might catch up with me in about 3 weeks.
Well, it’s 5.30pm. Means I have at least another 9 hours of studying to get done tonight.
I have never missed veging out in front of a tv until now. I want to soo badly…
I’ve just wasted 7 or 8 minutes writing this…shame on me.
