I passed my third certification exam
on the first try! I am very proud of myself especially after the morning that I
had. I didn’t know that Metro changed its service hours so now on Sundays, it
opened at 8am instead of 7am. I walked from home to McPherson, back to Farragut
West (where some Asian man asked me if I had $5 in hashish at Farragut Square.
Geesh! Drug dealers were NOW wearing hot pink t-shirts?! Who knew!). I then
crossed the Square back to Farragut North only to learn the K Street entrance
still had the gate up but the L street entrance was open (You had only ONE
job!). Once I saw the 16-minute wait, I climbed the escalator back to McPherson
where I waited another 19 minutes to roll to Reston. I arrived at the testing
center at 9:30am. The instructor said that he just got started teaching. Oh vey!
This was NOT my
first weird certification experience. I passed my PMP exam the day of the
earthquake in 2011. The scrum test system crashed the day of the test from too
many users and the Lyft driver missed the Vienna metro exit yet I still passed
the Certified Scrum Master exam. I refused to be rattled over such nonsense.
Not even that irritating broad whose favorite pastime was sitting in on
certification workshop but not taking the exams then complaining about how
backed up she felt. Girl, bye! She wasn’t the only one who made it a sport of
sitting in these certification workshops but not taking the exam immediately
afterward. There was another lady and gentleman in my training class who did
the same thing. They acted as if it was nothing. I couldn’t waste that type of
time sitting there which was why I now had three certifications and they didn’t.
That’s what Udemy was for! Udemy out there giving away certification courses on
the cheap for $10 (I scored mine for that much!). I bet they spent more of food
and liquor than their own self-improvement! That lady was just the most
annoying of the bunch.
I was happy that
it was nice (not dripping humidity) outside because I walked to blow off steam
(and stupidity!). It took me 30 minutes to register for the exam because it was
onsite registration and another person who openly admitted that this was his
second time sitting in on a computer language course and he didn’t think that
he would pass (Are you serious?! You held my registration up for that?!).
Anyway, I completed mine, went to the testing area, grabbed my headphones,
prayed and got to work. I passed my certification exam on the first exam. I
received my printout and certificate of completion and rolled back home happy
knowing that I got what I came for.
