Because technolpogy changes. geting certified means that you are expanding your knowledeg. There is NOTHING wrong with getting certified. And the comment about not learning much from getting a certification, as a mensa member, I would think you would know that you get out of an education what you put into it. ****************************************************************** Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will... ****************************************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trent Shipley" To: Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:10 PM Subject: Re: Mensan seeks work > Dr. Ghastly wrote > > > > Also, where I work, they FORCE you to get certification. They make you get > > certified in EVERYTHING. At least they pay for it. > > > > Why on earth would they want you to certify *after* the hire. The entire > point of a cert is to provide some gurantee of minimal competence. You don't > go through a cert process to become competent. You don't even learn that > much from it. > > A cert makes it unlikely the certification holder is out-and-out incompetent. > If a certification were sufficient to demonstrate competence and ability we > wouldn't make lawyers and doctors go to school and do internships. They'd > just have to pass their board exams. > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss