Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

Mon Nov 21 05:01:40 UTC 2011

Well, thats two mentors - and now one from the old school....

Why wait?   Start Now.  Use the resources Chris gave you & others you find,
take Jims advice re total commitment,  and then weigh that in the balance w/
your academic path.  (noting that vendor credentials are good for the HR folks
filtering the krill, but are not a reliable indication of skill or passion)

Look for an internship while in school.  Something part time.  Build little ISPs
in your dorm room using the VM tools and build/test complex topologies and 
random failure modes.  Pipe size is one thing, engineering in your sleep is 
something else.

of course YMMV.

/bill (now too old/slow to run w/ the big dogs)