I have never really been one to worry about how many acronyms you could tag after your name. And to be quite honest it never really mattered to me how big those letters actually were, because at the end of the day you put your pants on the same way I do every single morning. But that isn\u2019t what I want to post about.<\/p>\n
I have been asked before why I don\u2019t spend some of this current free time working on getting certified. All this time I have deferred the question and made up excuses I really never thought it through until recently. Last week someone that I care about, you know the kind friend you listen to, a true friend. Well he asked me this very question. It wasn\u2019t till then that I really sat down and thought about why I was so hesitant to take the exams to be come certified. I thought about how Christina Leo had posted earlier this year she was studying and then how she took the test and passed them all. I thought about that time while at Purdue that Chad walked into the office and said to Kerry \u201cI am going to go take a Microsoft exam and we have one more free coupon want to come?\u201d Kerry went and they passed. Yeah Kerry went cold turkey and passed.<\/p>\n
So what is my hang-up? I don\u2019t test well, that was my #1 answer. But why? Why can\u2019t I do these things I kept thinking. I looked back over all the test and studying I had done. Passed the insurance license exams for life & health and property & causality (okay to be fair I had to retake one of them but for the life of me I can\u2019t remember which one). Heck I even studied for 1 full week and passed the 6 & 63 securities exam with the highest score that office had ever seen. After sleeping on this for a couple days I decided that I am not that kind of smart. You see I don\u2019t commit all that much to memory and have a hard time doing so. I can\u2019t remember a phone number long enough to dial it on the phone I just read it off of. I believe that I am the \u201cfigure it out\u201d kind of smart. I know a lot of little things about a lot of stuff.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve heard that saying \u201cThere is shit you know, Shit you don\u2019t know, and Shit you know you don\u2019t know.” The idea being that as long as you know you don\u2019t know it you can figure it out. Well I like to think that I am just well indexed and just know how to figure things out. These test scare the living daylights out of me. I don\u2019t know the answer, I know how to find the answer. And there kids is why I don\u2019t have any certifications. Hearing really smart engineery type folks talk about taking test outside their skill set and passing doesn\u2019t actually help; it only reaffirms my theory.<\/p>\n
So what do I do about it? Hell if I know. I know that as a general rule of thumb I am not afraid to try anything. I do deep down inside know that when I put my mind to something I can figure it out. Building things, making things, taking things apart or fixing things. But the mere thought of taking a certification exam scares me to death.<\/p>\n
So what is your excuse why are you not certified? Or if you are certified and remember being afraid; how did you talk yourself into doing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AKA: Why I haven\u2019t gotten certified. <\/p>\n
I have never really been one to worry about how many acronyms you could tag after your name. And to be quite honest it never really mattered to me how big those letters actually were, because at the end of the day you put your pants on the same way I do every single morning. But that isn\u2019t what I want to post about.<\/p>\n
I have been asked before why I don\u2019t spend some of this current free time working on getting certified. All this time I have deferred the question and made up excuses I really never thought it through until recently. Last . . . → Read More: I’m not that kind of smart<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,5,147,239,225,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sqlfamily-technology","category-everyday-life","category-sql","category-sql-server","category-summit","category-technology","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}