Yes, me too. But I have always been discouraged by seniors. My employer sponsored my oracle java 8 cert. At the time, I knew zero java, and I was able to convi

Yes, me too. But I have always been discouraged by seniors. My employer sponsored my oracle java 8 cert. At the time, I knew zero java, and I was able to convince my boss' boss that it would be a good idea after my boss denied and said it was useless (bc he did not have it and did not want to validate it). Going through our code base after was eye opening. We were doing a few things wrong or in a non-standard way.