A spongy base of knowledge with a few layers of on-the-fly internet research, topped with a thick layer of bullshit. Decorated with sprinkles of “I will not be beaten by a machine”.
Yes, that’s how I see myself.
Bullshit is your friend if you know roughly what you’re talking about. It can make you sound like you know far more than you actually do.
I started the whole degree/mcse/cisco certs and decided that it didn’t make sense. I can still manage to keep our corporate network flowing nicely thank you please. I know people who finished their degrees, did their MCSE’s and still have to be directed like monkeys when a problem comes their way that isn’t in the Microsoft Manual.
Whatever happened to problem solving, thinking out of the box, ingenuity, and adaptation? When the first caveman made fire it’s not because he was going about things the way they were written on the cave wall.
People who do IT should be made to take a practical test. Someone should give them a Windows NT server that is steam powered and has been running for 7 years almost non-stop, then tell them that it needs rebuilding. Oh, but half of the data is corrupt, the motherboard is on it’s last legs so it will only boot every 34th try and when it does boot up it crashes 17.5 minutes later.
I’d like to see them thumb the manual for that one.