[aklug] Re: IT certifications

From: Christopher Howard <christopher@alaskasi.com>
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 10:18:31 AKDT

That might work for developer jobs, but I know that pretty near every
*decent* looking sysadmin job in Alaska is listing two or three certs as
/required/. And all the security related ones (which look the most fun)
usually want Security+, CISSP, and one other weird one which I'm
forgetting at the moment.

Unless, of course, you just want to become another Microsoft/Cisco
lackey. There's a lot of small-medium businesses even in Alaska who will
pay you low wages to babysit their AD and do the usual torturous Windows
help desk support, without necessarily having a MS certification.

On 09/06/2016 07:17 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * JP <jp@jptechnical.com> [160905 14:51]:
>> Just my $.02 Christopher... and take this with a grain of salt as this is
>> purely anecdotal and opinion and probably will start a flame war...
>>
>> In my experience, certifications are worth exactly the paper they are
>> printed on ... <...>
> I put kids through college writing code and I never had nor do I
> have now any certs (but now I'm retired :))
>

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