Salaams CCIE grads…
After 17 months, finally got the motivation to continue with Cisco certs and was thinking towards CCIE, although I never used the neat cert or sexy ID Cisco has issued me yet but rather wanting to use the companies training budget to a good use :). Anyways, for someone who is not involved with Pure IP based network its difficult to understand which was to go in CCIE?
Is it worth all the hassle? What kept you motivated all the way? Keeping in mind, it took me 2 years to finish CCNP with huge gaps in between.
Your help with be kindly appreciated and I shall keep you in my Duas 
Re: Help, its CCIE
I definitely say it's worth it for someone who wants to pursue a long-term career in network design and administration
I personally also stopped at CCNP and this was many many eons ago because my interests were all over the place at the time. I had graduated from my undergrad program in software engineering and was bored of the programming stints... so I got into networks and system administration and got myself CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, Sun's Solaris Sys Admin and Net Admin. Actually, they all had good synergy when I was able to use this knowledge in two of my jobs as a Network Design consultant. Later, I totally dropped out of the industry certs scene completely.
I have a couple of friends who've done the full CCIE bit, and I can tell you that if you're into this stuff, then it's totally worth it. It's not granted the same level of respect as 7 - 8 years ago... mostly because of vocational institutions that are now preparing candidates more "smartly" to pass the exams and labs... and the market is more diluted with people who're not as well trained or have the same level of expertise as before. For example, I've seen ads recently which ask for CCNP as a minimum and CCIE a plus... where the picture used to be much different before and employers did not ask for CCIE.
So whether it's worth it in the end is really contingent upon whether you're into this stuff, and you see immediate and/or long-term career options in this field for yourself. It will take time and money to get the certs and may be there are other alternatives worth considering if you're not too sure about this one.
Thank you replying LC bhai.
My main motivation I guess now is that it will be free as the company has funds for training purposes although I am not involved with a pure IP network, Im looking at a second option incase my current area don't serve me right in future. And the other issue which way to go in CCIE (interms of learning streams).