Well that's crappy. So just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly, if you DID attend programs accredited by the CEAB, you'd be able to bypass a lot of those exams, correct?
Anyway, you've gotta work a whole 'nother year first to qualify for the ISP cert, right?
Have you heard about these agencies from local employers or from ads they put out? I still bet that you would get jobs with or without any of the extra letters on your resume. You just need to be a bit more adjustable and be ready to relocate if there's a job paying real money. If you stay in your comfort zone, you'll stay bagging and boxing. Try to take a leap and trust that there's a parachute somewhere out there for you.
I would hire people with whom I could hit it off from the start. If the jokes breaking the ice got a laugh, it would be worth going further to see if the guy had anything else in there. I'd find out what he brought to the table in about a week. You take the best you can find in the interviews and you see if you could live with him when the work begins. The number of degrees never had any bearing on me. All the accreditations might get you to interview sooner, but not much sooner. I would be hiring post-docs from UCBerkeley to write software to fly satellites and send back the data. That was considered the cream of the crop of PHDs. By the way, I don't have a bachelor's but I was doing all the hiring. See my point? I was making a lot more money then any of the degreed boys because I had worked for most of the PHDs that lived at Berkeley. The proof is in the pudding - not how many classes you sat thru or how many tests you took.
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Anyway, you've gotta work a whole 'nother year first to qualify for the ISP cert, right?
I would be hiring post-docs from UCBerkeley to write software to fly satellites and send back the data. That was considered the cream of the crop of PHDs. By the way, I don't have a bachelor's but I was doing all the hiring. See my point? I was making a lot more money then any of the degreed boys because I had worked for most of the PHDs that lived at Berkeley. The proof is in the pudding - not how many classes you sat thru or how many tests you took.