Certs are indeed a waste of time (Score 1)

I'm agreeing completely with anyone else who beleive that IT certs are waste of time and money. I've previously done a CCNA and was amazed by the number of IT companies and organisations I went to here in Australia who had never even heard of a CCNA and those who didn't even know who CISCO were. Then after trying to get a job as either helpdesk or sysadmin after a Network administrators course at TAFE I was told that in order to work as a sysadmin I would need to have an MCSE so I did the course for NT and 2K only to realise how dogdy MS's teaching was for the OS's and i'm sure that many other people have noticed this as well. And after all searching I finally found a job and am now doing the CNAP HP IT essentials in preparation for an A+ only to find out that the information in this curriculum is off kilter as well (appeareantly UNIX and LINUX both run entirely on FAT32) So certs are in my mind a complete waste of time especially when the information contained in the courses for them is incorrect.