🚀 go-pugleaf

In aus.computers.linux on Sun, 01 Dec 2002 17:03:41 +0800
Mark Addinall <maddinall@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>
>I'm not saying they are bad.  Just not much use.  Certainly
>not worth thousands and thousands of dollars.  This scam has
>been going on forever.  I remember some mates of mine paying
>a royal bribe for a Computer Power course years ago.
>Same deal then "How terribly uninteresting".
>

Funny, I know several people who got quite good jobs via Computer
Power.  Or Control Data as it was then.

I think the RH cert is probably useful to go from phone droid to
sysadmin, but I agree that most certs are not much use, and they
certainly won't get you the interview on their own.

Nor will a degree or a TAFE course, but the advantage of those is that
you get to show you can stick to something for a reasonable length of
time, and you can also get and show off high marks.  Plus if you are
good and willing  you can be the one the lecturer thinks of when asked
"who have you got?"

(And they do get asked that. )

None of it is guaranteed.  But the more effort you put in to show
yourself off, the better your chances.  

Zebee