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[โ€“] zqps@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The thing that smells like bullshit is "he had every certification under the sun".

Getting certified is not an expression of smarts, but of money / privileged access. Good but poor techs in their 20s are self-taught.

Where did he get the money for a ton of certs, while being unable to afford a car?

[โ€“] yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of vocational schools will pay for your first attempt at certs, it's the only reason I gave comptia the time of day and got the incredibly overpriced a+ and net+ certs.

[โ€“] zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but hardly what an IT Manager would consider "every cert under the sun" i.e. all the big ones at least.

[โ€“] yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well you see there's this thing called hyperbole which is almost always included within idioms like that.

[โ€“] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's exactly what I just accounted for.