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What skill did you learn that was not worth the effort? (sopuli.xyz)
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There's often a skill that seem interesting, but I can't see doing anything for me in my day-to-day life. What have you learned that was a lot more effort than the payoff was worth?

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[–] 41 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

certs are scam.

but they pad your resume and make test companies a lot of money.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Depends on the cert and the environment you are already in.

    For example, I'm an IT Consultant, we kind of rely on 'professional certs' to get work at client projects, especially if a project is covering specific niches and we have consultants that have certifications within those niches.

    Also, many of the more mainline certs can definitely be worth getting (especially in the early career stages), as a quick example some of the CompTIA certs like Networking+ (a colleague got his job with us solely with that cert btw)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That's probably the worst part of it. In some places they're required or very helpful to have, even though they're still complete bs and a scam. Cisco is the perfect example. Their certs are useless and constantly changing, they're really expensive, and they don't really teach you about the general subject (networking). They just shill their products and their proprietary, non compatible way of doing stuff, and you pay thousands for that. Yet jobs still want those certs, even if they don't work with Cisco.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I remember looking into getting Azure and GCP certs some years ago and went through a few prep courses. It turns out getting the initial certs for cloud services like them is basically to be a salesman for them. It's like they're training IT people inside companies to be embedded salespeople for them. Insidious, and kinda genius.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Oh yeah they do. I got my Google GAIL a while back and my son just finished up some AWS one, they are both just variations of 'Which of our products would you use for x?'.

    C|EH was more fun to study for than test for.

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