(05-24-2018, 10:24 PM)Renazor Wrote: That story was more about how extreme caution doesn't help in the long run, if the user keeps giving something to the experts to fix, he won't learn much, being dependant on those experts and their level of expertise, generally even with all the education and college, most PC repair services are laughable at least the ones I briefly came across with because I never trusted them from an early age already, I just have to do it myself, even if they know everything I do, some things still come down to taste how I want things set up. But the point was, that was 15 years ago, now, I don't need a friend or a rescue CD anymore, if I wasn't curious and messed things up, I would never learned anything, I didn't mind it because that was all meant to go as research and experience, so it's not a negative or a waste of time, if that was the preferred goal.
But still be careful with the general knowledge "over XX years" ... , someone may know many things, a little about everything, while not a whole lot about one specific thing. And many times people get the impression they know a lot, just because they maybe work around the office with other experts for "XX years", no it doesn't work like that.
Then you have the practical worth, IT is such a broad term, I don't have a luxury to throw enterprise solutions at my home PC setup or just reinstall it every few months like it's no big deal, since I'm very specific of how I want an OS to behave, corporations can throw resources at problems much easier, while less efficient, but faster, which means the college programmes change to adapt to those needs, so that also means those kind of IT experts don't get to learn some of the stuff on the "manual" deep level, because it's not practically worth it to a company to spend 10 hours fixing one computer's registry just to avoid a reinstall, for example. So an IT maintainer wouldn't really know much about why something crashed in deepth, because after 15 minutes of doing some basic attempts he would just re-load to a previous backup image, so he becomes more of an disk imaging expert and how to maintain those systems.
I'm sure this is something that's been done later, I'm not that sure just yet it got overwritten and all nice and clean from the beginning. I'll keep a look on that, I'll be monitoring those modified dates and I'll come back with what I found.
Just gonna throw it in there... I've got 50+ certificates and 20 or so full certifications for which I studied hard for including (but not limited to) ITIL Foundations v3, [color=#111111]MCDST: Windows XP,[/color] MCITP: Windows 7, MCSA: Windows 10, MCP: Configuring Windows 2000, MCITP: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, MCITP: Windows Server 2012 R2 Enterprise, Cisco A+, Cisco N+ on top of my 4 years of university studies in Systems Administration and 2 years in Computer Sciences, so I do know a lot about troubleshooting and all that is around it, I'm not saying I know everything, because I can always learn and that is me saying it as a Trainer/Teacher myself. I am far from being a developer though, I can read code to some extent but I was never interested in doing that for myself.
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