So I’ve totally bit the bullet and decided to jump right on the whole certification band wagon. I’ve schedule (and paid for) the next computer certification test that I’m going to take: the CompTIA Network+ exam on March 20th, a mere two weeks away. I think I know the material pretty solidly, so it’s just a matter of reviewing it all for the next two weeks. I’m feeling pretty confident about it right now.
This means that my goal of getting my cross-platform certifications in what seemed to some people to be a ridiculously short amount of time when I first told them my intentions will hopefully be realized. That makes me rather proud. It also makes me kind of broke, but I guess I can’t have it all. :) I’m hoping that my investments in these certifications really do pay off somewhere down the line so I can point to them and demand more money for my formidable knowledge.
That is the whole point of these silly certifications, isn’t it? To prove what I know and to point to the money I spent on them so people will give me more money in return? What a strange, strange economic system our society has developed to manage proof-of-knowledge requests.
Why so cynical? Whatever is required to master in order to pass the certification tests, seems to have been established as a marker, a diferentiator for skills on demand. No system is perfect, that we know, but certification is better than your mere word. Say, I would prefer a candidate with means of proof of his/her mastery of skills I need to hire.
Wouldn’t you?
Nick Moscovitz
10 Mar 06 at 12:54 AM
That was my comment above, why is it marked as yours?
Note: I’ve gone ahead and editted the above comment to show as being made by you now.
Nick Moscovitz
10 Mar 06 at 12:57 AM
If you’re using Safari, you should try resetting it. That’s the ‘Reset Safari…’ option from the Safari pull down menu. It’s coming up as mine because, most likely, there’s a cookie on your computer from when I was over at your apartment.
Meitar
11 Mar 06 at 12:35 AM
COOOOKIE!!!!
Nick Moscovitz
11 Mar 06 at 6:52 AM