I got my A+ through a vocational program in high school. When my friends were getting jobs at McDonalds, I worked help desk at the community college and crawled

I got my A+ through a vocational program in high school. When my friends were getting jobs at McDonalds, I worked help desk at the community college and crawled under desks fixing PCs. The only thing the A+ cert did was get my foot in the door as a kid with no experience. That alone made the cert worthwhile for me. Later in my career, I took it off my resume because I didn't want to do desktop support work anymore and recruiters were stereotyping me based on that cert.