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"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
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I have put this out here before, but will relate this experience again. Over my 42-year IT career I worked with hardware/software from three major vendors and many software packages large and small. Sometimes I wanted just to see what they had, or to develop a new skill. Over one extended period I resided between two community colleges within a tolerable commute, and both offered fairly wide ranges of evening classes. When I wanted to explore some new area, I could take one or more classes in the desired subject for very low cost. This would provide directed, hands-on learning opportunities without making investments in software, job changes, etc so I could somewhat keep up with developments in specific areas and determine if it was in my interest to continue.
Rick
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I am in the first group. I have put this out there before as well. A great way to learn new features is to work on the latest certification of the platform of interest. I am not saying get the certification unless you can afford it. There are free study guides, usually from the software or hardware vendor. I know some of the study guides teach you how to access the system and navigate the UI. If they are all like that today you won't learn anything. I am talking about the technical training on how to use most of the newest features of the tool. You will see things you didn't know that the tool could do or new features that can save time. The next step is to then try what you have learned. Once you learn stuff, teach it to your AI.
I am currently retired, having taken care of my mom until she died a 103 1/2, took 3 years to travel around this great country with my wife of 50 years in our travel trailer and have just moved into my new house and now we have to get everything out of storage. During that time I have kept up some with technology but no deep dives. After we get settled into the house I will be learning again and maybe work for a few more years. I never plan to stop learning as long as I have a sound mind. My mom was sharp as a tack up until the day she died.
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feel like CERTIFICATIONS and all is a waste of time/money/energy
learning new features and all when "big big CASH" is involved makes sense to me
no pun intended against any one
- skeleton567 wrote:
I have put this out here before, but will relate this experience again. Over my 42-year IT career I worked with hardware/software from three major vendors and many software packages large and small. Sometimes I wanted just to see what they had, or to develop a new skill. Over one extended period I resided between two community colleges within a tolerable commute, and both offered fairly wide ranges of evening classes. When I wanted to explore some new area, I could take one or more classes in the desired subject for very low cost. This would provide directed, hands-on learning opportunities without making investments in software, job changes, etc so I could somewhat keep up with developments in specific areas and determine if it was in my interest to continue.
Sounds great! Something I hadn't considered doing, but it's a very good idea.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore RooseveltAuthor of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning - hmbacon wrote:
I am in the first group. I have put this out there before as well. A great way to learn new features is to work on the latest certification of the platform of interest. I am not saying get the certification unless you can afford it. There are free study guides, usually from the software or hardware vendor. I know some of the study guides teach you how to access the system and navigate the UI. If they are all like that today you won't learn anything. I am talking about the technical training on how to use most of the newest features of the tool. You will see things you didn't know that the tool could do or new features that can save time. The next step is to then try what you have learned. Once you learn stuff, teach it to your AI. I am currently retired, having taken care of my mom until she died a 103 1/2, took 3 years to travel around this great country with my wife of 50 years in our travel trailer and have just moved into my new house and now we have to get everything out of storage. During that time I have kept up some with technology but no deep dives. After we get settled into the house I will be learning again and maybe work for a few more years. I never plan to stop learning as long as I have a sound mind. My mom was sharp as a tack up until the day she died.
Yeah, I do plan to retire someday, but when I do, I'm going to keep learning and doing within technology through my ham radio hobby. No sense in letting the brain just rot.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore RooseveltAuthor of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning - naumon765 wrote:
hi feel like CERTIFICATIONS and all is a waste of time/money/energy learning new features and all when "big big CASH" is involved makes sense to me no pun intended against any one
Totally not a fan of certs either. However, I'm studying up to take the first open source PostgreSQL certification this fall at pgConf.EU. It's not that I need the cert, but I'm using it to up my knowledge and understanding. Also, I can give feedback to the committee running it to influence the direction of it and future Postgres certs. Fingers crossed. It'll suck to fail after publicly making a stink about taking the test. Ha!
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore RooseveltAuthor of:
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In this rapid changing world IT-certs get obsolete fast. It adds a bit of decision weight as the person probably understands the system at some level.
Exempt hard certificate requirements for certain jobs, I think hands-on experience is more valuable
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