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Re: certification is absurd?

Subject: Re: certification is absurd?
From: Gene Kim-Eng <gene -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:57:50 -0700


I could probably say that about my entire college education. I don't think
I ever used more than 20% of what I had to learn to get my BSME, even
when I was working *as* an ME. We used to joke that the most valuable
thing we came away from our educations with was the ability to quickly
decide which reference book to look for the answers in. But engineering
was as varied a field as technical writing for me, at least from a product
point of view, and learning a little bit about all the different things required
to get a BSME did prepare me to go learn more about the specific things
I needed to know for my actual work. So as long as there's some provision
in a certification process for actual work experience in a particular area to
substitute for whatever formal training is on the list, I don't see that as an
insurmountable problem.

Gene Kim-Eng


At 02:44 PM 4/18/2003 -0600, kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com wrote:

My point it: for certification to cover enough bases, it's inevitable that
some or all of us are going to get forced to get trained in a skill (or
two, or five) that they'll never use.



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