Sorry, William. You have to be the Executive Director of a non-profit or similar to get a month vacation. If you¹re a NABCEP Certified Installer, it is catch as catch can. (I can attest to that.) However, there probably aren¹t a lot of out of work NABCEP Certified Installers.
In all seriousness, one thing that gets lost in some of these discussions is that the relative value of ANY certification varies depending upon where one is in the food chain, so to speak. I¹ve worked in distribution, in design and integration, and now in technical publishing. As an employee, I¹ve found NABCEP certification super valuable. It has distinguished my resume from others. It sets a floor for my value in terms of compensation. In fact, when I worked for an installation firm, we had automatic pay raises for NABCEP Certification. If you¹re an owner of an installation firm, I think it¹s a very different scenario. Your past work is the best part of your resume. It¹s a lot easier to sell your company to future customers based on your long list of past happy customers than it is to explain to them what in the world NABCEP stands for and why they should care. I think it can be a selling point, but if your not an employee the value in NABCEP is definitely more symbolic and intangible. We all see a lot of mistakes that get made in our line of work. NABCEP represents the industry¹s own desire to set and strive for a higher standard. It¹s not the boogey man. It¹s not ³The Man.² It¹s your well intentioned colleagues. That¹s my experience and my 2 cents, David Brearley, Senior Technical Editor SolarPro magazine NABCEP Certified PV Installer On 6/2/12 9:34 AM, "William Miller" <will...@millersolar.com> wrote: > Colleagues: > > I have been debating in my own mind the merits and demerits of applying for > NABCEP. I see below the conclusive evidence that I should become certified. > If NAPCEP installers get to take month long vacations, I'm all in. > > William Miller > > > > At 07:17 AM 6/2/2012, you wrote: > > >> The only person who would "officially" respond to Wrenches posts about NABCEP >> would be Ezra Auerbach, the Executive Director. That's part of his job, to be >> the public face for the organization. I have forwarded a few of these posts >> to him, and have gotten back a robo-response that he and his wife are away on >> vacation and will respond to emails upon return, I think around the end of >> June. > >
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