At my place of employment, we were given “unlimited” Brainbench.com accounts; to be used for internal training and skills measurement. I’ve never heard anyone refer to brainbench with anything but sarcasm or uncontrolled laughter, but what the hell, it’s free to me right? I logged in and looked around their site for a while, I noticed they had some Apple OS X tests. Now anyone who knows me, knows I am a giant apple geek (no, not a fanboy), so I took every test that was available that was related to Apple. I ended up taking about three tests related to OS X and passing them at the “master” level. Then, just to really solidify my Apple geniusness I took the tests they had for System 8 and 9. Why the hell they even bothered with System 8/9 is beyond me .. but anyway.

I checked the mail today, and to my surprise there was a large envelope from Brainbench. I didn’t remember asking them to send me anything .. *evil mean thoughts*. I opened it up anyway, thankfully there was no spam or anthrax spores ..

This is what I got. It does look pretty damn cool, so it’s hard to not feel a bit of pride. My wife says the real world will think it’s hella cool since it says NASA. But I still don’t think I’ll should put it on my resume. I just don’t believe it means as much as everyone (including myself) wants it to. The tests I took certainly weren’t hard, so I don’t really feel like I earned anything special.

Does anyone have an opinion on this subject?

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