Originally Posted by Ariakkas

maybe its just me, but if i am going to be hiring someone...anyone. then im going to do a little research into what i am paying for. if you don't know what the credentials for a specific profession are, educate yourself. with the internet, and in this day and age, ignorance for any reason is no longer an excuse. The information is out there, go get it.

as for certification. my point, obviously, was not that a person should not persue certification. it was that people can work without certification. the terps on this board sometimes act as tho they are holier than thou, and if you weren't shat out of your mothers womb with a ci/ct or a nic, then you aren't worthy of calling yourself anything but a nuisance to the deaf community. people have to get expierence to be certified, and rightly so, otherwise a certification wouldn't mean squat.