Snagged it.. Frickin awesome feeling

I just got the call offering a new government job with wayyy more responsibilities as a Network Analyst, going from my current position of IT Tech. I will be helping migrate their entire Novell network to AD and implementing Exchange (hopefully 07). This is such an amazing moral booster as I have been working my butt off on my home labs just to study for certs, when they indeed really helped answer alot of the questions I had during my interviews. A thorough understanding of alot of the material landed me the job (that and not being a drone of an interviewee). A 4 dollar raise and wayyy more bennies.

To all those searching, keep up the studying in the off time and stay away from being a couch potato even though we all know how fun it is... This is the only way to advance yourself in a field full of high achievers.

Good luck!!