Re: How to confirm someone is an OCP?

Jeremy Smith wrote:

> Mike Ault <mikerault_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Classes
> > to
> > OCP
> > to
> > Intership
> > to
> > DBA
> > to
> > Senior DBA
> > to
> > DBA Curmudgen
>
> This is a path that ignores what is usually the case, that at some point DBAs
> end up doing a job they weren't qualified for.
>
> Everyone wants someone who cut their teeth somewhere else so that they can
> only hire those with years of experience. Unix admins feel the same way.
> If you want everyone to be competent in the role they've been given, create
> some jobs where the expectation is that they won't know everything.
>
> Jer

And when you go to the doctor because you have a strange lump and you are worried about what it is. Or you go to hospital because you have a pain in your chest radiating down your left arm ... you are going to look for someone with no experience actual experience but who passed the state medical exam with a cram book?

Somehow I doubt it.

Why should our profession be any different.

Daniel Morgan
PS: Feel free to substitute IRS audit and an accountant for the above. Or design a 70 story office building an architect for the above. Or impacted wisdom teeth and dentist for the above. Or any other profession that pays roughly similar wages to ours. We are the only profession I think of where people expect $100K per year and to be able to hack around without consequences. Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 15:01:13 CDT