I never thought I'd see the day when getting an education was dissed on a LOPSA list.
Here is the "take a deep cleansing breath" moment I'm referring to: --- On Fri, 8/21/09, Luke S Crawford <[email protected]> wrote: > [] Sort of like a 'soft' degree from a community college.[1] > There is a slight negative response there, sortof "if that > is the best you have going for you..." or "why did you think you > needed to do that?" Let me get this straight: you are having a "negative response" to someone because they got a community college degree? Hmmmm. When I look at your explanation you go further and diss people who merely went to community college. Let's take a look: > [1] I really shouldn't be making fun of community college. No - you shouldn't. But you evidently couldn't help yourself judging by what you wrote subsequently. > I have no education at all. It might explain, but doesn't justify the put down. > And yeah, I know several really bright people who went > to community college; but it's a distinction shared > by large numbers of mediocre people. I think you would do well to reconsider how many people on this list - or their families - "went to community college". My personal observation is that their level of mediocrity is significantly lower than what you assert. I hope we can discuss the merits of a CISSP further, without the needless swipe above. What is indefensible is people with "no education at all", making fun of people with an education. Now *that* might just correlate with "a distinction shared by large numbers of mediocre people". Ob CISSP: Since I'm dealing with Enterprise Security and Federal agency mandates, I deal with a lot of people with CISSP on their signature lines. I've genrally resisted the siren song of certs for most of my career, but I'm thinking the CISSP is not something to resist - someone might take my recommendations with higher salt dosing if they don't see me sporting a CISSP title. To the other CISSP holders: Have you encountered any difficulty maintaining the CISSP or are the average 40 hours/year of formal continuing education not that big a burden for you? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
