I took my A+ OS test (220-302) at the University of Phoenix testing center, located in beautiful downtown Honolulu less than 12 hours ago. Thankfully I passed even though I didn’t have much time to study, so I’ll be hoping for that certificate in the mail.
The company I work at now doesn’t care if I have certifications or not, but I had started out taking the Hardware portion (220-301) in January when I was still working at the Help Desk as the Lead, and wishing i could quit every day.

I work with Servers, so I might think of persuing some server certifications. And maybe becomming Mac certified since I own a mac at home, and prefer using it to PCs. I hate the image mac has been manufacturing for itself, but i still can’t dis the product itself. I was thoroughly happy with my G4 12″ powerbook. Too bad I dropped it so many times it broke. Now I have the 15″ MacBook Pro and it gets super hot, and the fan is pretty noisy. I bought it only 3 months ago, in March, and am wondering if I’ll be taking it in this year for problems or not. (Hopefully not!)

I work with a couple of talented programmers who tell me certifications don’t mean anything to them, but I went to college and studied MIS, where they taught me nothing about being a computer technician, so everything I know about computers had to be learnt on the job, or through reading and experimenting on my own… so I don’t dis certs, but I don’t think they mean you know what you’re doing even if you have one. I know my major in college was more geared towards me becomming a business analyst but i don’t think i’d be happy in that position.

Sometimes I wish I could just leave IT alltogether though… and do something more fun. I guess I am interested in many things, and able to learn so I’ve done things like fix navigation systems on helicopters for the army national guard, and work in distance education editing and td-ing for live classes, and radio broadcasting, and management, and promotional work as the music director for my college radio station, and was a recording engineer at the hawaii public radio station down here… i’ve done a lot i guess. just cause i am a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none type of person. i don’t think its bad, but its hard since i don’t really know what i want to do aside from make money.

BUT: if all jobs paid the same amount of money, i think i would like to produce music videos, or make short movies. or work on a television series. or produce my own beats and collab with my favorite artists. hehe. dreaming huh? but yeah. I passed my test today, and am hopeful in 10 years i’m happy with my career.