First, I can't figure out what to be jealous of... The Burger King budgets or the tool and die experience to hide the fact that I know bugger all about computers.
Second, what advantage is there to prove "certifications". Certifications are meaningless. Obviously. PCeye claims to have some sort of college course on computers, yet knows bugger all about them.
I've been conducting interviews with people that claim teh "college knowledge" and most of them don't have the first damn clue when it comes time to get their hands dirty. Paper smarts are absolutely useless. Offering $25 an hour doesn't seem to get me much in the way of actual experience.
Now, experience on the other hand. Experience that gets a call from a restaurant yesterday.. Their "paper smart" tech support spent hours trying to figure out the problem. He calls me in a panic because the "support contract" he has with these people is useless and he's losing money by the minute. I go on site and in five minutes the problem is fixed, his hosts have logged back on, orders are going through, etc.
Do I REALLY need to prove something to some kid on a message board? Do I really need to give a damn who you take your advice from? Do I really need to care who you believe? Do my clients, that spend an average $150 to have their WD drives repaired give a damn that the two drives your parents bought you for Christmas still work? Do I really need to realign my thinking because "well the drive I bought with my paper route money still works six months later" after having sold, serviced, etc over 3000 drives in the last ten years? When besides Fujitsu, who scrapped their residential product line because of a fatal design flaw in their cooling, I've seen more than triple the number of failed WD drives than Seagate, Samsung or Maxtor?
Or does your sample size of 5 trump a sample size of several thousand?
I'm not even functioning on the same plane you are. You have some retired, senile, washed up has been posting "Google-sense" and someone else posting Youtube videos as proof. I have businesses, factories, government agencies, accountants, doctors, dentists, jewelers, investment brokers, printing companies, teachers, authors, real estate agents, etc. that lose money by the minute when their computer systems go down.
Your worst case scenario is that you can't post more Youtube bullcrap on a message board.
I have a very successful computer business that's growing in leaps and bounds. I have an office, staff, inventory, equipment, signs, vehicles, advertising. I am authorized by several major computing companies. I have partnerships with web hosts, web designers, networking and security companies. I have more referals bringing business than the $4500 I spent on the Yellow Pages this year. And now I have some twit on a message board demanding PROOF!!!! Oh...my...GOD!! I'm going to jump right on that one.
Hmmmm. Let's think about that for a second.
Should I really CARE what you think? Give your head a shake.
