2nd cert

[libertango]

Well, it hasn't quite been 2 months since the last time, but I passed my second Microsoft certification exam today, Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (whew! a title longer than its URL! :)

This is a very good thing, as SQL is reasonably hot right now, and my contract with Volt ends... well, um, Friday.

So, I told Ulrika, and we decided to celebrate by going to Big Time Brewery. A few folks joined us, including marykaykare, and Marci Malinowycz, and Ron Drummond (though I suspect Ron was there just to be there, and didn't expect the rest of us :)

So, um, like that. A personal post, and good news no less.

Comments

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the cert - I'm starting to consider certs now to be marketable somehow in tough times in the techie biz. I have many years of experience, but no paper to show for it, so I'm at a huge disadvantage, as well as being on accounts that are just now migrating to operating systems newer than NT4. I'm behind the curve.

I do see a lot of SQL jobs out there though. None I can qualify for. You should have a pretty easy selection available for the next job.

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the plan, but as I was unemployed for 360 days last time (19 Oct until 14 Oct the following year), I am, um, worried. I definitely targeted SQL for marketability, although a friend of mine is nudging me over to the idea of getting into Test...

Still, we'll see how it goes... And thanks for the good wishes.

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

Software test isn't a bad way to go either... if you like poking and prodding code to find out where it went wonky. From what I understand, the pay is liveable, and it's an entry-foot in the door to bigger meaner coding jobs if you like that direction. A little over a decade ago, I considered software test as a jump up in skills, but life and the industry was different then, and I never did it. To try and get my foot in the door now with so much chage would be a considerable task (in school and/or experience) I think.

I'm feeling the same nervousness even though it's been less than 3 months. I typically hold jobs for years at a time, so to be unemployed is a really new state of being for me. And the gub'ment $ is drying up after earlier this year when I was off for a couple months. Color me creative in what I may try to do for a roof over my head! ahah

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Which beers did you try?

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

I pretty much stuck to the porter, but then I tend to drink porters or stouts in beer.

[ivymcallister.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. :)