Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > > > Another aspect that hasn't been discussed is the whole area of > other > skill sets, other than perhaps server skills and general > management > (MBA-ish). Now, I'll challenge the assumption of some people > that say > they don't want to be engineers and haul boxes around for their > whole > careers. Engineers do lots of things that don't involve hauling > boxes, such as design, product management, presales, etc. > Engineer > != support technician.
I would submit that all these alternatives are more easily achieved with a degree than with a cert. Things like presales, design, product-management and the like all require soft-skills that are better addressed via a degree program but are addressed poorly, if at all, by a cert program. Therefore the central point still stands - the degree gives you greater overall career flexibility than a cert will. No industry field outside the very narrow confines of network engineering gives much credence to the value of a Cisco cert, but every field values the degree. So the real question a person who chooses to forgo the degree in favor of Cisco certs has to ask himself is whether he is absolutely sure that he wants to do Cisco networking for the rest of his life, or does the possibility exist that he might want to do something else when he gets older? Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=69975&t=69963 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
