RE: Older vs younger tech
I see people disagree with my opinion and that is fine. Let me elaborate more. Like I have mentioned I have worked with alot of techs old and young and some that are really good and others that haven't been exposed to as much problems or don't have that much experience and for someone like me who knows better can tell just by working with them on what level of expertise they are at. I have trained many of techs at every job I have had. With that being said I have work with techs who had alot of certs and some that don't and some that had degrees and others that don't and a mixture of the two. I usually find the older techs are the ones with the degrees that they got 10+ years ago when at the time the only Windows was Win 3.3 or Win 95 and unless they have taken good classes and I emphasize on good because I had taken a Win7 class when it was still in the beta and didn't really learn anything new for what they taught in class I had already picked up on my own or read up on some posts online. So if you are not keeping up with the times you really have no advantage over the younger techs who are learning the recent OS in school and getting certed up. We can agree to disagree this is just my opinion.
