[aklug] Re: IT certifications

From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 13:27:32 AKDT

* Christopher Howard <christopher@alaskasi.com> [160906 10:21]:
> 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.

  Yup, from my experience, the beauty of choosing development is
  that there is a product and that can be one's best resume to being
  paid to make another product ... and so on, but sysadmins and
  network engineers will have hoops ...

> 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 :))
> >

-- 
Tim 
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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