always studying something

40-something // he/him // BS in Cybersecurity

[coffee-dad-studies]

FYI, I graduated. 🎓

(...if it wasn't clear from this post.)

[coffee-dad-studies]

Doing a NGFW (not to be confused with NSFW) refresher.

[volcanoesmeltyou]

Someone convince me I don’t need a master’s degree

[coffee-dad-studies]

Had no idea how good it'd feel to reply to two different enrollment departments with "I've put my grad school plans on a brief hold while I work toward earning this certification by the end of the year. I'll return to evaluating graduate programs at that time."

Leave me alone (for now).

[coffee-dad-studies]

I feel so fucking stupid when I try to study nowadays. Like my brain is Swiss cheese.

[coffee-dad-studies]

This is when I start feeling like I'm too old to try to learn anything new or to improve myself in any way.

[coffee-dad-studies]

I feel so fucking stupid when I try to study nowadays. Like my brain is Swiss cheese.

[blvck-coffee-dad]

I need someone to convince me to take a break from looking at graduate programs for now and instead to focus on this big certification I'm aiming for by the end of the year, please.

[blvck-coffee-dad]

Subtitling a 500+ page book as "A Concise Guide" is certainly a choice.

(Also, give me highlighter recommendations.)

[coffee-dad-studies]

This is about to temporarily become a CISSP studyblr, by the way.

[coffee-dad-studies]

Back to certification study — CCNA this time. I need to re-occupy my mind with some actual technical things and get some relief from management/leadership stuff.

(Also watching my hapless Mets over in the corner.)

[coffee-dad-studies]

This did not work out this time, and I'm done with CCNA for now. It would've been maximally helpful at a few different points in my career, but right now I'm pushing for security leadership and strategy. Configuring routers and switches is not what I want to be doing with my time. But the voucher was free, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

Maybe another time.

[dark-sappho]

"defend your thesis" why are you attacking my thesis

[coffee-dad-studies]

Back to certification study — CCNA this time. I need to re-occupy my mind with some actual technical things and get some relief from management/leadership stuff.

(Also watching my hapless Mets over in the corner.)

[night-vale-community-radio]

How to Successfully Study in the Library

bring all of your materials with you

find a nice quiet spot void of distractions 

make sure to take little breaks every half hour or so

maybe bring a little snack

don’t look at the giant floating baby

just don’t 

try to forget about the giant floating baby in the library 

use different colors of highlighters to organize your notes  

[night-vale-community-radio]

you folks think this is like a fuckin doctor who or phineas and ferb reference but nah this is the shit I gotta put up with every day

[blvck-coffee-dad]

Had what was scheduled to be a 30 minute preliminary phone conversation for a job that I'm interested in. Twelve minutes in, they told me that they want me next week for a formal interview.

So that was cool.

[coffee-dad-studies]

I'm kind of talking into the void here, but I think there might be... two people following me here who'll know what I'm talking about here.

Anyway, I'm not in school right now but I think I need to occupy myself with some training and education anyway. Fortunately — or maybe unfortunately — I have study material and a free voucher for each of the following...

Cisco CCNA (voucher expires June 30)

CompTIA CloudNetX (voucher expires June 30)

(This is me realizing in the moment that both of those expire on the same day. 🙃)

The one that I really want/need for my career is the ISC2 CISSP, which I have study material for but no voucher yet. (I'd either have to pay for it myself or have it sponsored by my employer, and it's around $1000, so... it's gonna wait.)

Hopefully I'll keep my brain busy enough with all of this over the next few months.

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

[v-studies]

Sunday morning coffees and networking labs ☕️

[coffee-dad-studies]

Was just browsing the subreddit for the cybersecurity degree programs at my alma mater and someone posted a screenshot that included their first name, their last name, and their student ID number.

Not a great look for someone studying information security. 😬

[academicssay]