| znakomi 2003-07-31, 3:23 pm |
| IMHO, don't waste a moment for the negative. You'll never
know what it's worth until after you have your first MCSE.
Then you'll know to a better degree what you were capable
of doing, and there's a lot of value in that. Also as you
say, "if it gets you in the door", well then, it was worth
everything. And if nothing else, learning cuts down on
alzheimers. Networking is the greatest computer game!
Enjoy!
>-----Original Message-----
>I am currently training at a Microsoft Academy, the first
of it's kind in
>South East England. I have read with frustration the
posts regarding the
>worthlessness of the MCSE accreditation. I am using this
course to get a
>foot in the door of the IT industry, I neither expect it
to get me a
>top-dollar job or a top-shelf one at that. I do intend to
follow up this
>course with maybe a Cisco networking cert and/or a Novell
cert. Frankly, I
>have had a love of computing since a very early age and
my first ZX
>spectrum, and now I'm sick of the building trade and need
a change of
>direction.
>
>Surely these certifications provide a sound knowledge
base from which to
>START? All of the naysayers comments seem to revolve
around one thing,
>experience. Well I seem to remember after having passed
my driving test it
>took me a little while to get used to driving on my own,
with no instructor
>to point out or correct my mistakes. That my friends, is
the way it is.
>Unfortunately no, experience cannot be bought, and no
matter how many certs
>you have they will never be a substitute for knowledge
gained from years in
>the field.... BUT, everyone has to start somewhere.
>
>Spare a thought for the people just starting out,
regardless of what you may
>think of the MCSE, we have still paid for the course as
that is where our
>interest lies. We are still studying hard to achieve the
recognition, and
>then we have to spend the first four years or so of our
employment proving
>ourselves still!
>
>There may be a slump in the IT industry of late, but we
all know that after
>slumps there is generally a boom and when there is, there
will be more than
>enough work to go around. Less of the bickering ladies
and gentlemen please.
>
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