Monday, February 8, 2010

A new Dating Concept - part 2

It's been a week now . I almost finished Mark Lamont's Online Secret game. Well, I saw improvements in the way I approach women online. I improved my online profile and that generated more hits for me. I made new girl e-friends. That's quite an accomplishment and I'm happy with it.
However, I got electronically rejected by two women. The first one, she told me that her date with me caused her trouble with her boyfriend (wait, I didn't know there was a boyfriend). So obviously, I didn't generate enough attraction. And the second rejected the whole thing of giving me her phone number. Humm.
So I think that I'd better build attraction in the real world while keeping my online up to date. I even shouldn't expect a lot from social websites. I should use it as a stepping stone for gettings phone numbers.
The main thing now is to continue BCMSN studies and build up my new rock band.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

A new Dating Concept

As a network engineer, I find it a little difficult to date women. So after some reflexion and research, I went to study online dating.
This may at first seem ridiculous. But it works if you give it a try, and add to it the following skills:
- cocky & funny (see DeAngelo material)
- men grooming
- Goal achievement self help material
At least, it worked for me. After a couple of days, I got a date with a girl(I went out with her earlier, but in the presence of her female friend) that I knew online. And I'm actually continuing my studies so that I can find the real quality woman.

New CCNP Curriculum

Cisco released the new version of its respected CCNP. Hopefully, I did BSCI. Now I have no other alternative but to kill BCMSN. Then, I can play with some Voice. Meanwhile, TSHOOT gets more and more mature.

Almost 28 Days Later

The CEO rejected my premature resignation. He had a very strong personality and self-confidence, I admit it. In my one-and-a-half year of working at SATEC, I only discussed with him twice.
In a second attempt to quit my job early, he refused.
One of my collegues was blaming me. Some may be making fun of me. He told me that I made big mistakes. I don't believe it. They are just mistakes, and I learned from them. At least, I'm courageous enough to get rejected twice despite what some people here may think. At least, I'm trying and growing.
So what now? my future employer told me that it's OK to wait for me until the 1st of March. Good news. Besides, I won't care for the future of this company anymore. Everyday I'll come here, have some chat, learn some Cisco stuff and leave. That'll be the schedule until the end of this month. They wanted it that way, they'll get it.
A good thing too is that all of the Support team are cool. I enjoy their presence a lot.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Meeting the CEO

Tomorrow I'll have a meeting with our CEO about my resignation. It won't be easy because he's stubborn. Besides, my company could lose a contract because of it.
However, I can not stay any longer in the company. I see no focused professional growth for it, in my opinion. One day I work on Juniper gear, another one on very old WAN technology like ISDN. One day I went with a technician to dust off some client equipement. Is that a job for an engineer? It's stupid how the engineer is devalued here. We only get training when a contract is on the way. For example, I went to a Juniper training last summer. What did I do with it? nada.
I'd like to focus on Cisco technology. That's where the real networking industry is. The more focused skills I have, the higher in demand I'll be in the future. I prefer to be a routing/switching/voip guru than have a lot of fix-here-fix-there experience.
I'm going to prepare my speech this evening. In the worst or in the best, this week will be my last in the company.
We'll see what'll happen tomorrow.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Awaken The Giant Within - NAC part 1

I'm using Tony Robbins' NAC technique to eradicate my negative beliefs. I began with the belief "change takes time". It's been three days since I began applying NAC to this belief.
I'm seeing changes, really. I now consistently study the final touches for BCMSN and manages my time more effectively.
The progress is not huge, but it's better than my past situation, where I used to stuck to non-value activites.
I'll keep on using the technologies from Tony Robbins.

Friday, January 1, 2010

The Power of Beliefs is Real

I went to the mosque. " I need to take lunch rapidly and get back to the office, because Marouene needs me for something". It was closed. "What"?". Very strange. At this time doors must be open and muslims must be coming in groups. Where are they?
I looked around me. Nobody is bothered by my stupefaction. I looked at my watch again. 11:50am. I'm sure, it's time! Is there a problem with the mosque??
Then a memory flash of a conversation hit me
" -Sofiane, we need to hurry up, today is Friday and I need to be ready for the prayer.
- No Wassim, don't fool me :) it's Thursday, not Friday.
- Stop kidding me and let's continue. "
So it was Thursday ! Why did I thought it was Friday? It was so intense that undoublty thought it was Friday.
Waw. I realize now the power of beliefs. Imagine I have the same thoughts about myself, my skills, my selfconfidence. How my world would be?...