Thing the Second: > Well, they've successfully convinced thousands of developers that AWS certifications are worth thousands of dollars and quoting CactusOnFi

Thing the Second: > Well, they've successfully convinced thousands of developers that AWS certifications are worth thousands of dollars and quoting CactusOnFire > I got one of the AWS certifications. I know it's a scam. I too used to look down on certification. I made a damn good living "doing computers" (still do): networking, development, what's now called BI reporting, backup and restores, etc. This for multiple startups, SMBs and $BIGCORPs. I then wanted to get into training: MCSE, SCSA, LPI, etc. For that, I had to be certified. No problem, I thought, certifications are for fools and children; this will be a cake walk. Great Ghu! There was _so_ _much_ I didn't know or even know about. Certifications filled in _so_ many gaps and minutiae. (You don't know what you don't know.) Not only did it fill in the gaps, allowing me to better utilize the knowledge I already had it let me make more sense of those shapes I see off in the tech horizon. Now because I have these certs, should you then treat me as if I was the next coming of Ritchie? :-| Certs show that you have a _base_ knowledge, not that your the reincarnation of Turing. Are there people who abuse the system? Sure! Name a system involving humans that isn't/hasn't been abused, corrupted, and twisted beyond what it was meant to do. Go ahead. I'll wait. I've come to the conclusion that people who sht on people (mostly utes [sic]) for getting technical certifications are the same ones who sht on recent high school graduates: Oh, you have a high school diploma? How nice. /s It says here you took English and math classes. Let's see how good you are. Write a 5,000 word dissertation on the impact of Don Quixote on Western literature, then prove Fermat's Last Theorem. If you can't do that in 30 minutes, GTFO you poser.' What's that? You don't treat ppl with high school diplomas or bachelor/masters' degrees like that? Then why treat people going after certs like that?