RE: Certification is absurd

["Anita Legsdin" <anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com>]

I agree. The other side of the same coin is that many writers can't stay
relevant simply by the resources offered by the companies they work for.
When companies cut back, one of the first things to go is training. If
my company can't afford to send me to a conference or class where I
could learn new tools, techniques, and technologies, then I need to pay
for it myself and go on my own time to keep up to date. If I didn't do
that, I'd still be searching even today for a DEC/Vax programming job
(in Fortran, no less), and slinging hamburgers at mickey-D's, grumbling
all the time.  ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Posada [SMTP:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 17, 2003 2:18 PM
> To:	TECHWR-L
> Subject:	RE: Certification is absurd
> 
> 
> > We stay relevant by the experience we get at our job. Call me 
> 
> If you base what you know only by what you learn at your job, you know
> that
> well...and that's only if you happen to learn it well and they do it
> the
> right way. If all you did all day is document X, you might do X
> well...the
> problem is that nobody else needs X
> 
> 

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