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RaffyOm's avatar

Some people are too greedy, some are too naive, some live in dreamworld, some in fear and you threatened to burst their bubble. It's amazing how people listen and ear only what they want to beleive (we are all guilty of it). We have seen this happening in large-scale in the past 3 years. There will always be people taking advantage of the naivety, dreams and fears of others.

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Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

Meaning no disrespect to your certifications (I speak as a recovering cost accountant who had specialized training in inventory control, who also holds certifications in Asterisk Voice Over IP systems, so I have familiarity with the demands and the merits of certification in several professions), but I have to wonder if what you are witnessing is the same credentialism that has done much to destroy the technical skills of the IT industry.

When credentials become the ticket for admission rather than the acme of achievement, the normal forces of the marketplace will act to dilute the value of the certification. It has been happening in IT for decades, and we see it cropping up in the legal profession as well, with today's crop of lawyers advancing legal theories and arguments that would have been laughed out of the first year of law school.

From what you have recounted here, it sounds as if your classmates are focused on the certification and you are somewhat anachronistically focused on the knowledge.

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