I got an A+ cert in high school. It helped me get exactly one job: a tech at Best Buy (while still in HS). In the 9 years since then, the issue of certification

I got an A+ cert in high school. It helped me get exactly one job: a tech at Best Buy (while still in HS). In the 9 years since then, the issue of certification has never come up again. I know there are more serious certs out there, but I can't help imagining that they are all a lot like my A+ was: memorizing facts that are fairly orthogonal to actually being able to perform your job.