[TCP] certification (was: ranting STC)

[Kevin McLauchlan]

Ned Bedinger was replying to Jim Dexter when he happened to say:

> If you do this, perhaps you'll do 
> me a favor 
> and also test the hypothesis (ok, hunch) that TWs who are 
> interested in 
> certification will be willing to pay for either certification or 
> membership in STC, but not both.

I'm not alone in this:  My last STC membership lapsed around 2000, 
when the company stopped paying for such frills (and also for 
frills like the STC Conference in Disney World... this is not 
to say that I held off each year and then decided against springing 
my own bucks until after I evaluated the coming year's conference 
site... it's not to SAY that, but you can think it :-), 
and my renewal/resumption will happen in just a few weeks, as 
the paperwork is processed to have the company pay for our 
STC memberships once again. (It's nice that they feel comfy 
enough, fiscally, to pay for frilly bits now [do you have that 
in a Teddy?]. )

So, if I were now to pay for certification (don't hold your 
breath), then either it would be _another_ frill that the company 
volunteered to pay for, or it would be the first such one 
that came out of my pocket. Thus the either/or-but-not-both 
hypothesis doesn't seem  to apply.

Cheers,

Kevin

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