good thing or bad thing?

[peach]

That as long as we pay our recertification fee, that we don't have to re-test?

I hung my plan review hat up long ago.. but I can maintain all my certifications by just paying for them. Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing.. I'd hate to study again for commercial electrical inspector..

Just saying that sitting on our past laurels necessarily qualifies us to continue doing what we knew 15 years ago.

 

[pyrguy]

Well, we have to get a little continuing education also.

I do agree, I do not want to retest but a little more continuing ed might be nice....IF we had both the budget and the time to get the education.

 

[Yankee]

I think continuing ed and ALSO continuing to work in the field would be about the same as retesting to new code editions. If someone took a 10 year break from working, now, there might be an issue with their knowledge base.

 

[Jobsaver]

I cannot think of other certifications (teaching, for example), or professional licenses that require retesting. CEU's for the purpose of keeping the certs, actively working and studying (blogging on this site perhaps) to stay viable.