Why I hate MS

[Travis Roy]

> I largely fall into this camp also, but I think they can be
> occasionally useful.  An example is someone in my position...  I've
> got a good amount of experience, and I'm a bright guy, but I've been
> away from IT for about 3 years.  If I had the cash to get myself some
> certs before I re-entered the job market, I think I could have
> leveraged that to get back into a more senior position than the one
> I'm currently in...

Oh, I agree, it's great for that, but for actual ability.... Do you 
think you really could have had more under your belt that you couldn't 
have found out on your own for a lot cheaper?

I think the two greatest underutilized resources for IT people in the 
field are things like this mailing list (or newsgroup, or online forum) 
and IM.. IM has always been a HUGE help for me. It helps that one of my 
friends works as a senior routing support engineer at Nortel and I'm by 
no means a master of routing.