On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:07:30PM -0400, Marc Christopher Hall wrote: > This is why I am pushing for legislation to make this a licensed profession. Gawd, I hope you fail. Any number of trips into history will verify that insisting fields be licensed is a bad idea. Mostly licensing is a protection racket for people who want to protect their little area of turf and limit competition. If it doesn't start that way it ends up that way. Anyone can say anything they want, including that they are "licensed". The real test is, can they produce the product? That's why you want to see what the guy's done in the past and check references before you write him a quarter million dollar check. The last official programming job I had (as a FoxPro programmer) happened because my prospective employer came to my office and I showed him some code I'd written for my then current employer. I got the job on the spot, because he could clearly see I knew how to code in FoxPro. And he wasn't sorry later that he hired me. I don't know how many guys I've seen with numerous initials after their names who couldn't actually do what they were supposedly trained to do. But people were sure impressed by all the initials. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
