Re: New alarm licensing for Province of Quebec

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Oct 21, 12:58=A0pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 6:48=A0am, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Licensing really proves nothing. unless there is actual hands on
> > certification etc. any one can pass a test.
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> As silly as it sounds it does prove something, 20 years ago I attended
> an electronics school (the one Sally Struthers used to advertise for).

> Very simple 2-year course that 95% of the people I started with didn't
> finish, most dropped out after 2 or 3 months. Prospective employers
> looked more at the fact you attended AND finished the course more than
> what you learned.
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> Attending a class and taking a test for a license may not amount to a
> lot but I'd rather have that person in my house than someone who
> couldn't bother taking the time

Back in the day ..... I created and taught a New York State Board of
Regents approved course in alarm installation. I saw the same results
as you. Dozens started the course. A hand full would finish. And only
a few would get jobs in the trade. Back then I attributed it to the
fact that most of the attendees where getting assistance and subsidies
from various government and wellfare agencies. That is, they took the
course because it was paid for or at least partially paid for by
someone else not because it was something that they wanted to do as a
vocation. Probably thought is was going to be easy or maybe they just
wanted to learn enough to break into places. After about five years
the applications slowed down and the technical school that I wrote the
course for moved to far from where I lived for me to communte easily
and was eventually bought by another school. I don't know what
happened to the course after I stopped teaching it. Might still be
being taught somewhere for all I know.


By the way, Sally doesn't advertise for that school any more because
she ate it.

I used to wonder why they ever let her advertise for those poor hungry
kids.
I'm thinking they fired her because they found out that she was eating
them too.