General Discussion - can someone help

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can someone help

marazmataz

2004-06-22, 5:04 am

My work place is a distance from home so i hve to get up early(5.30 am) and leave the house by 6.30 am,to get to the office by 7.45 am,normally work starts from 8.00am to 5.00 p.m,after that am off for training till 7.00 am and the traing happens to take place at my work place,i get home at 8.00 p.m tired and worn out and it starts again the following day.
My major problem is i want to study for my CCNA exams and hve all resources needed but i hve a hectic work schedule which consumes alot of my free time at times they is no free time for me.
If anyone has ever experieced such can you advise me or give me an idea of how to deal with these issue coz i need the certification to get me out of here i am currently.
Pls help

KiwiPete

2004-06-22, 6:01 am

Wow.
Sounds like me. Up at 5.30, bus at 6.30, start work at 8.00 etc.

I've offered this advice on this forum before & I still stand by it: Make some study notes from the book(s) you're reading.
Then convert those notes into sound - somehow. Whether you're driving, catching a train or catching a bus, you can listen to those notes during that "wasted" time travelling to work.

You can do this a couple of ways:

If you've got a portable CD player that supports mp3, use an application like
TextAloud MP3 which reads the words on the screen & saves it to an mp3 file.
Then, just burn them to a CDR & listen to them on the way to work.

If you've got a walkman, either use TextAloud MP3 or ReadPlease to read the words & hook up a tape recorder to your computer to record the words. Then listen to the tape on your way to work.

If you do this, a couple of words of advice: Make the spoken passages fairly short & separate them with some music. Otherwise it gets real boring.
Also, don't listen to the tape on the way home from work. I've literally fallen asleep on the way home listening to my own boring study notes.

curiousgeorge

2004-06-22, 1:07 pm

I live 52 miles away from my job. I get up at 6:30 and get home around 7:30 every day. But I'm also taking two college classes for my master's degree.

Bottom line- you have to make time for what you want.

Either study for about an hour a day or just dedicate a few hours on the weekends.

If you have time to post in this forum, you have time to study.

Good luck my friend.

HOOLIGAN

2004-06-23, 10:23 am

Stuff I had to memorise, I used to write down on cards and keep them in my pocket. I also used to buy the smallest A+ books ( pocket size ) and read at my non tech job at lunch times, slow times etc.
Good luck.

freak

2004-06-23, 11:25 am

it's all a matter of priority at this stage. You have to make time for it, create a schedule to which you will stick. There is nothing we can do to help in that regard...

DaDnDe

2004-06-24, 2:26 pm

you say you get off work at 5 pm and go to training at 7 am?? pm... and its at work. well there is two hours to kill. you dont eat that much do you??

also your training aint gonna last forever is it? when its done simply use the new free time to get started on what you want to learn.

the audio tapes is a great idea that i used for college frequently and will start using them again thanks Kiwi!!

plus the simple act of recording the information will go a long way towards remembering the key ideas you need to grasp to learn the info.

freak

2004-06-24, 2:28 pm

I must say that I have had very poor results from using tapes. It seems that you either pay attention to your driving, or you pay attention to the topic discussed on the tape, but mixing both seems to me to be both dangerous and not that productive...

DaDnDe

2004-06-24, 2:47 pm

oh i should have clarified...

i MUST listen to music when i am driving.
the tapes are for when you are relaxing. i dont suggest playing them all night when you are sleeping, but for me using tapes when i dont want to think seems to be when they are the most effective.

but i guess for this method to work, you must have some quiet time during your day to do this. i have a panasonic mini cassette tape that only plays 30 min a side and that is all i recommend you listen to at once. but even 10-15 minute sessions would be helpful. also devote most of the tapes to things that have to be memorized. general concepts and such will get glossed over by your mind if they take too long to present (well maybe its just me but when using the tapes i need concepts that can be presented in chunks of a few seconds at a time so that way if an outside distraction should occur, no rewinding is necessary to get back on track)

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