The Escape Plan

Study routing and switching.

Get certification in routing and switching.

Get job in routing and switching.

Study more about routing and switching while working 8 hours per day on real life routing and switching problems.

Get another certification in routing and switching.

Get a higher level job in routing and switching.

Study more about routing and switching while working 8 hours per day on higher level real life routing and switching problems.

Get another certification in switching and routing.

Get a higher level job in routing and switching.

Wash, rinse, and repeat. Once you have obtained a comfortable position where you feel like stopping then do so. But as Matthew Furey says, "Retirement is suicide!" This is not work, it is play. It's like Second Life. Come with me kids, on this wonderful journey to the land of internetwork engineering.