If your company doesn't pay up for your certification... you should find another company. :-)
I was lucky in that I only took the exam (major cost savings), but like many others I'm not current anymore. It's not an issue though -- I'm not involved in any way in the "Unbreakable Linux" initiative so my Linux certification is useless. On 9/23/07, Pietro Calingasan III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RH or LPI will be nice candidates. > > Advantages are: > > - HRs will easily pick your name from a list. > - Big Corps (TM) need people with certs to boost their roster > - Pampahaba ng lapida > > Disadvantages: > > - Have to sell an arm for a cert > - Will be grilled/sauteed by old timers once they got a chance to interview > you > - Have to sell another arm to get certified to a more current release > > With the quality of engineers who brag their certs, no wonder that > people are skeptical about the abilities of certified guys. > > Now that my cert is not current, I'm thinking twice or thrice to get a > refresher one. Maybe spend the cash on a nice AMD-powered Sun > workstation or buy a used SPARC machine on ebay... or additional stash > for my kid's tuition fee.... _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
