I haven't blogged much in recent days because I have been busy studying for my project management professional certificate. I spent the better part of a week studying for this thing, and I'm glad I did because the exam was brutal.
One of the people I work with has a good example of what the exam is like. The questions are appropriately ambiguous so as to trip you up by getting you thinking too much. Here's her analogy:
What color is the sky?
A. Blue
B. Black
C. Orange
D. Indigo
Your thought process works like this: "Of course it's blue! Wait...at night it's black, and at sunrise or sunset it can be orange...indigo is a more specific shade of blue...Frick! You know what? Fuck it, it's blue."
And so it went for 4 hours. My only comforting thought was that if my ex-wife could pass this thing, then surely I could. But then a nagging thought kicked in....what if I don't pass? How big of an idiot would that make me? I only know of one other person who failed it and she failed 3 times and was forced to wait a year before taking it again. Could I be that big of a dud? As it turned out, no. I did far better on the exam than I thought I would, and even that would have been more than I needed to pass. Now I have my PMP certification, so you can call me a PiMP.
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