Certs are not going to let you move up in the tech world. Anyone can pay money for, study for, and pass exams. To get ahead for real you have to have skills that are in high demand. Skills that most people don't have. Having the skills isn't enough either, you have to prove you have them by putting them on your resume. Not on the resume as certs, but as experience.
Companies are stupid these days not wanting to train people. They aren't going to un-stupid anytime soon. Look at the job you want, and see what technologies that job needs you to know. Learn those technologies, and use them in some project for real. Put the project on your resume, and specifically write that you used those technologies for it. Become a master of those technologies for real, so you will be able to answer questions from other experts. Then that company will strongly consider you because you know the things that they don't want to pay to train someone in.
Everything Apreche said. I don't necessarily think you need to be an expert but you should be highly proficient at the very least in whatever you wish to pursue.
Other than that very slim worst case scenario, what's the real danger here? I swallowed small metal things when I was younger and they eventually they all came out my ass. Maybe a bit shinier than I swallowed them, but they didn't hurt me.
I really, really hate Symantec's products. They just seem to have gone downhill since the decided to be an enterprise/security software company. They used to have some pretty neat and innovative products in the late 80's/early 90's.
I really, really hate Symantec's products. They just seem to have gone downhill since the decided to be an enterprise/security software company. They used to have some pretty neat and innovative products in the late 80's/early 90's.
??? What good product has Symantec ever had ever? I can't think of a reason to ever use anything they have ever made.
And Norton, the only product they ever made worth a crap was Ghost, and I'm pretty sure there are better alternatives now.
Let's see... There was Q&A Write for DOS, which was a really cool word processor/database hybrid that used a pretty damned good natural language processing engine to do queries. They also had some excellent development tools for the Mac way back when with their THINK compilers and IDEs. Their original Symantec Utilities for the Macintosh (basically Norton Utilities for Mac) was also very well regarded in its day.
As far as Norton, their tools were awesome in the DOS era (the original Norton Utilities and Norton Commander), but they started getting kinda weak during the Windows transition.
So yeah, once DOS died, so went Symantec's good products. *shrugs*
I used the DOS before you did. MS-DOS 3.2 on a dual 5.25" 360K floppy machine (no hard drive!) with CGA graphics and a whopping fast 8 MHz 8088 CPU.
Based on what I gather from our age difference and various discussions of the "old days of computing" on the podcast, I think you starting using DOS right around the time Win 3.1 was out and pre-installed on all new computers. In my day, the only Windows that was out was Windows 2.x (often sold as either Windows/286 or Windows/386) and you had to pay extra to get it. It was so bad that Windows applications sometimes came with limited runtime versions of Windows just to run those apps because hardly anyone had Windows installed on their computers! I remember the big deal that was made over Windows 3.0 as it was the first version of Windows that didn't suck.
Admittedly, I wouldn't want to go back to those days, though it was a more interesting time in computing in many ways.
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Companies are stupid these days not wanting to train people. They aren't going to un-stupid anytime soon. Look at the job you want, and see what technologies that job needs you to know. Learn those technologies, and use them in some project for real. Put the project on your resume, and specifically write that you used those technologies for it. Become a master of those technologies for real, so you will be able to answer questions from other experts. Then that company will strongly consider you because you know the things that they don't want to pay to train someone in.
Nice to know there is some competition on the block.
And Norton, the only product they ever made worth a crap was Ghost, and I'm pretty sure there are better alternatives now.
As far as Norton, their tools were awesome in the DOS era (the original Norton Utilities and Norton Commander), but they started getting kinda weak during the Windows transition.
So yeah, once DOS died, so went Symantec's good products. *shrugs*
Based on what I gather from our age difference and various discussions of the "old days of computing" on the podcast, I think you starting using DOS right around the time Win 3.1 was out and pre-installed on all new computers. In my day, the only Windows that was out was Windows 2.x (often sold as either Windows/286 or Windows/386) and you had to pay extra to get it. It was so bad that Windows applications sometimes came with limited runtime versions of Windows just to run those apps because hardly anyone had Windows installed on their computers! I remember the big deal that was made over Windows 3.0 as it was the first version of Windows that didn't suck.
Admittedly, I wouldn't want to go back to those days, though it was a more interesting time in computing in many ways.