RE: Certification

Absolutely. It also tells you a lot about how much your company values you. If they wont spring for training once or twice a year, you should be thinking about finding a new employer.  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:31 AM
To: oracle-l_at_webthere.com
Cc: dofreeman_at_state.pa.us; stephenbooth.uk_at_gmail.com; dlordster_at_gmail.com; Yavor_Ivanov_at_stemo.bg; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Certification  

On 5/30/07, Ted Coyle <oracle-l_at_webthere.com> wrote:

        Recently, I asked a software company VP friend of mine if the company he's

        now at values training. His response, "we want to hire the people who

        self-train, we don't want to hand hold."

This can of course be translated as:

"We hire people that will spend all of their free time learning how better to do their job,
and we don't have to pay for it"

Sorry, doesn't work for me.

Not only is formal training valuable, lots of folks have better ways to spend their time away from the office doing something other than work.

As regards the motivation at startups: the carrot is the possibility of a huge
payoff down the road. 80+ hour weeks are simply not worth any amount of money.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist


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