Derek Balling made the following keystrokes: >In New York, you can't run an auto-repair shop without a license. Just >FYI. > Be careful when looking at Professional, Certified, and Licenced. They mean very different things, and in some cases are used just to make them seem legit.
In looking at google and the NY requirements... To get said license, all you need is to show a business name, sales tax number, proof of insurance, drivers licence, the proper equipment and permit if dealing with refrigerants. It does not appear you need to get an ASE Certification or one of many other proof of training tags. At no point do you even need to identify a spark plug. In regards to the "seem legit", it looks like I could get a "license" to set up a "snake oil" shop in NY if I wanted to. It must be "legit" since I paid them money and got a piece of paper in return. Following those requirements, any of us could open a shop. Once open if you want to stay in business, you probably want to have people that know what they are doing working on the stuff brought in. This probably means your techs will have ASE or similar certs. Now this is another big difference in where they are and SA. As a business, the repair shop has a benefit in certs. If all your techs are certified, you can advertise that. This gives customers a better feeling about your company and the shop down the street that isn't advertising it. I'm sure places may look at RHCE or MS certs, as well as CISSP and Cisco certs when hiring people. Having spent time at the ServiceNow conf, and some of their training, I could easily see marketing myself as passing some of that training, but it would only do me any good if I was looking to only work on that software stack. --Gene _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
