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Hey, wow! We got a real, passionate colloquium going!
Bob Morrisette gave me something to calm-down and respond to when he wrote:
>Are there any other "Certified Data Processors" in this group?
>I cannot remember which professional society gave a CDP test
>sometime in the 60s. It was difficult - questions on computers
>and programming. A lot of people put CDP after their name until
>everyone forgot what it meant.
Darn, I can't think of the name of the organization either, but do remember
the last three members of the Phoenix Chapter of it showed up at an STC
meeting about three years ago... they gave a good talk about the "Old
Days," and were apparently never heard from again...
Someone I useta be married to was a "Certified PC Professional" in 1991 and
fully conversant in DOS 3.2 and Eight-in-One. In 1993 she'd been out of
work for a year 'cos she didn't know WordPerfect... Of course, she learned
WP4Win in about a day on her Mom's brand-new 486 Windoze machine shortly
after we met... but insisted she couldn't work for money on computers 'cos
she wasn't certified... Hmmm... PS; the wedding invitations, floorplans and
brochures for the day-care center-she-dreamed-of-building made a very nice
portfolio when next she went looking for work 8-)
The trick is continuous learning; at home, at work, at school, the NetCafe,
wherever... show up, be there, do it.
Write on!
dan'l
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Non-degreed, qualified H5 Large Automated Telecommunications Center Operator.
Politically Incorrect, Doctrinally Suspect, chain-smoking, Mac-using,
web-surfing,
still-working, ecumenically libertarian, CLEP-testing, GED-holding Fat
White Guy.
(Oh, and 140 credit-hours of college).
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