On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:38 AM, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Johan Booysen wrote: > > My employer wants me to look into gaining the RHCE certification. > <snip> > Only if your employer is paying. Otherwise, well, we've had discussions > here > before, and it's not more important than actually knowing/learning the job > on > your own (books/co-workers/google HOWTOs/etc). > > mark > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > MGRS are generally NOT technical. MGRS use certification, training classes as a way to judge their work-force. Certifications help MGRS within the business organization whether they are looking for status (I've got all RHCEs on my staff), or quick approval (all the engineers recommend), or avoiding nitpicking people (the RHCE all said this is the way to go). If you have certification, you help your MGR get her/his job accomplished! Certs may mean nothing to a sysadmin but certs are very important to your MGR. Don't you want to help your MGR accomplish his task, show support for her/him, etc.? Certs are a game that sysadmin canNOT afford to skip. On the plus side, certs will get you jobs and more money. My Solaris sysadmin Certification brings in at least $10K more a year. At my site, I am the highest paid sysadmin because of my certs (a college degree puts me in the senior category; the certs make me the biggest earner). The real UNIX guru, with 5-10 more years of experience and a much larger skill set, dreams of making what I make. (I recommended him for my current position; my employer picked little, old, certified me.) Skipping certs is a fool's game! I paid for my own RHCT training--class, hotel, car, meals, and took a week without pay. Passed the RHCT test. Put in on my company's website form. Now I am recognized as certified. If you need a cert, get it; if you have to pay for it, get it. It is your career not your MGR's or your employer's career. Just like college, once you get your bachelor's, you don't have to get it again and it is a constatnt source of money. (The $10K it cost me for college has provided $100Ks for me. Currently, it pays about $10K per year that similarily skilled sysadmins without a backelor's don't get.) Being penny wise and pound foolish is also a fool's game! Fools give bad advice. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
