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I am a 21 year old college student. I work at a help desk at my school. In an effort to legitimize ourselves (none of us who work there have had any formal training), our boss' (boss's) boss agreed to pay for some dell, mac, and HDI (?) training for all of us during my winter vacation. These are probably $100-$200 certifications that I wouldn't have to pay for.
My parents plan elaborate vacations for winter vacation. If I go to these certification classes, I'm missing like 4 days of a vacation. Plus it will create an issue for my mom "you're our only child, we go on vacations for you. We aren't paying for you to go to college to end up working at a help desk. blah blah blah."
Also, I have a job lined up when I graduate which is software focused (as is my career path, I'm a computer science student after all) rather than technician focused, so it's not like these certificates show anything to a future employer.
But free (to me) certifications are nice, and I don't particularly like spending the whole day with my parents.
I am a 21 year old college student. I work at a help desk at my school. In an effort to legitimize ourselves (none of us who work there have had any formal training), our boss' (boss's) boss agreed to pay for some dell, mac, and HDI (?) training for all of us during my winter vacation. These are probably $100-$200 certifications that I wouldn't have to pay for.
My parents plan elaborate vacations for winter vacation. If I go to these certification classes, I'm missing like 4 days of a vacation. Plus it will create an issue for my mom "you're our only child, we go on vacations for you. We aren't paying for you to go to college to end up working at a help desk. blah blah blah."
Also, I have a job lined up when I graduate which is software focused (as is my career path, I'm a computer science student after all) rather than technician focused, so it's not like these certificates show anything to a future employer.
But free (to me) certifications are nice, and I don't particularly like spending the whole day with my parents.
I can't imagine a world where a $100 certification from Dell is going to make a CS student more marketable upon graduation. In light of that, I'd choose the vacation.
But free (to me) certifications are nice, and I don't particularly like spending the whole day with my parents.
What would you do?
Well, I was going to say skip it, because once you have your CS degree, these certifications are going to be pretty meaningless, but it sounds like you actually want to do them. So in that case, I'd go get the certs.
40 something yo self would not approve of my short term thinking 21 yo self and say get the certifications
I'm over 40 and I say go on vacation. You have a post-graduation job already lined up. Giving up vacation to get a certification you only need for a student job is nuts.
No brainer. Vacation. When you start working full time you will truly see that those elaborate vacations are few and far between.
Good on you to ask to be responsible, but you are 21, a student, working a help desk.. Not work missing vacation for.
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