why certify?

i'll tell you why...

no matter how much experience you have, if you don't have ccna, you are not ccna...  those who work in the industry who don't have it secretly wish they did, wish they had the bag to get it, but tell you they don't need it, because, after all they can build a nexus, yet they don't know the difference between the data-link layer and the data-dick layer... they are monkeys whose knowledge is only locally significant... they go so far as to call themselves engineers... it's disgusting... i have 20 years experience supporting networks but that didn't mean jack until i finally got off my dead ass and got ccna... as i work ccnp i would  never dream of referring to myself as an engineer, and i never will, until i get ccie...

the only people who belittle the certs are those afraid to actually get them...