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Thanks Simon, any recommendation based on experience is good. I was looking at CCNA Collab, but their offering seems quite light on the website. I'll drop them a mail and see if they do a full course set.

Has anyone used Firebrand training for Cisco? I'm looking at one of there courses in London. Any experiences good or bad?

I kinda like the fact that I can work on systems anywhere in the world from my cube (although I wish I was allowed to work on them from home). 

I like this too. I was working remotely on a system in South Korea the other day. I do like getting out and about though. Time for some research I think.

Everything, I do remotely.
So, yes, I don't travel to the big rigs or anything like that... but I do get to work from home 2 days a week, most weeks.

I think you're right and a lot of the config can either be done remotely or if hands on intervention is needed it's outsourced to someone in the area who just racks and connects.

I'm home based with travel, but do daydream of specializing in an area that involves more outdoor work or variety in locations.

I work on a lot of sites where PRI's are the norm, but any new deployments are fully SIP and many PRI customers are migrating to SIP.

SIP is awesome because:

• Migration of local numbers to any geographic location allowing for the removal of local PRI circuits
• Load balancing over multiple SIP circuits to provide redundancy
• Easier to troubleshoot
• Bandwidth can be easily flexed depending on demand and business requirements. This is great for people in the outsource space where there are peaks and troughs in call volumes
• Multinational businesses find it easier to work with the same service provider across different global site locations

I wake up to the curtains in my bedroom blowing in the wind from the sea breeze. The sunlight shines through the windows and the smell of freshly made coffee wafts from the kitchen. As my head gets less fuzzy and I emerge from my slumber, I hear the rhythmic *thump* *thump* *thump* of chopper blades as the Eurocopter AS365 lands on the lawn outside. It takes me a minute to remember it is here for me.

A quick shower and change of clothes and I'm ready to go, grabbing my holdall and pouring my coffee to go as I head out the door to the day that awaits. Destination is a ship off the coast of Corfu with a failing VSAT link. Just another day in the office 

Seriously though, the above is not my life, but it might be someones. I'm not very good at the 9-5 Monday to Friday desk job and I'm lucky enough to have a great job with a variety of work and locations.

However, it would be good to hear from anyone who has or does an interesting job relating to networking. Do you visit oil rigs and ships offshore? Do you climb up masts in the mountains and administer 4G networks. Do you frequently fly to exotic locations and save the day Rambo style?? Give me some inspiration of networking jobs that don't just involve sitting in a data centre or behind a desk all day (not that there's anything wrong with either).

Hi,

I'm a VOIP specialist with 10 years experience, living in Scotland.