William, I was going to stop all emails on this subject, but I got to respond to this one. RPT - what really is that and credibility to who. Yes, to yourself - and - to the guild. Based on where I am, geographically, RPT means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the customers - most of them have no idea what that is and don't care ! Yes, if I study real hard, I probably could pass the tests. But why commit to memory, things that can easily be looked up. I used to be a Mainframe Systems Programmer - VM/VSE Operating Systems. There is no equivalent RPT like tests for these, yet I made a good career out of it - lasting 24+ years before the mainframe left the area. Spent 19 years programming in Assembler and REXX (Similar to BASIC) (with no formal training and/or testing). In 2000, before I got laid off, I was making $56,000 per year. Add 8 years onto that, who is making that kind of money now ? Oh, by the way, I have and studied the PACE books and have committed a lot to memory. Even my mentor, who IS an RPT, has never really been asked to explain what RPT stands for and never really gotten any more business because of it. In fact, he has been in long enough to have the previous name, something like, Allied Tradesman? Another local ASSOCIATE is making a very good living installing Pianodisc player systems in various pianos - including - uprights. So what - credibility - does being an RPT really bring - based on where I am, I can only see it being bragging rights to the guild. Duaine William Monroe wrote: > OK, I can accept that. But I think it's not unreasonable for those > who can tune to think it is unreasonable to make it easier to get a > qualification. I think if we continue to pursue the "least common > denominator" idea, we quickly lose any and all credibility that RPT > brings. > > Thanks for being straightforward. > > William R. Monroe.
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