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Creimer's multiple Associate Degrees are paying off, fool.

I got a General Education A.A. degree in 1994 because I skipped high school and didn't know what I to do with my life. After I started my technical career as a software tester in 1997, I went back to school to get a Computer Programming A.S. degree in 2007 for FREE with a $3K tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11.

He doesn't need an advanced degree because he knows the secret is to get a new Associate Degree every few years to keep them fresh.

Next degree will probably be a project management certification in the next five to ten years.

http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/certificate-programs?cname=Project%20and%20Program%20Management

As long as he looks like a young recent grad on paper, creimer is golden like the rooster that laid the golden cock egg.

That's why I don't list my 1994 A.A. degree or the 2000-ish dates for my Windows/A+/Network+ certifications.

Both have outdated credentials and the safe assumption is the oldster who looks worthless is worthless.

You need to periodically renew your credentials. I got my associate degree in General Education in 1994 and my second associate degree in Computer Programming in 2007. I list the 2007 degree on my resume. Some hiring managers who hire me over the phone are surprised that I'm not under 30. I'll replace the 2007 degree in five years by taking project management development courses at UCSC Silicon Valley. What most people don't realize is that you have to actively manage your career. No one else will do it for you.

Nope, three years ago, you were breathlessly assuring everyone here that you were "studying for" the same security certifications.

Over the last three years I discovered that I don't learn the same way that I did 15 years ago when I got my first set of certifications (A+, Network+ and MCP W2K). Plus life tends to get in the way.

So Creimer, be honest: have you even cracked a single book?

I got three Security+ books and I'm using Transcender for online studying. Exam by end of summer. I also signed up for a ITIL course on Udemy, don't have a book yet, and plan to take that exam in December.

You could have gone back to college and earned a fucking Master's Degree in that time.

Uh, no. I would have to be reinstated into the university to get my BS degree. I'm not willing to take out student loans for a BS/MS degree that will be worthless on the day I graduate. Something that many people have been finding out after racking up $100K in student debt.

If I was to go back to school, it would be professional development courses at $1K per class to learn project management.

https://www.ucsc-extension.edu/programs/project-management

Stop blowing smoke, you incompetent illiterate fuckwit.

Why are you wasting your time trying to prove me wrong on every little niggling detail?

You realize that colleges, just tuition, cost $12-15k a year now, right? They charge more for engineering programs, etc.

The professional development courses I'm likely to take at this stage of my career (20+ years) still cost $700 to $1,000 per class. That haven't changed in a decade.

https://www.ucsc-extension.edu/

And I'm amazed you found a job that would give you that much overtime and that you didn't burn out during it or had time to do, I don't know, like three sections of calculus a week?

I was a lead video game tester during my second tour through community college. My supervisors complained that I wasn't working 80 hours and gave too much responsibilities to my assistant lead testers. All three of my assistant lead testers went on to become lead testers. Since I already completed an A.A. degree during my first tour of community college, I only needed to complete the major classes for the A.S. degree. Two classes per semester for five years wasn't a big deal. It also helped that I spent five years programming the LAMP stack for my personal website prior to going back to school to formally learn computer programming.

Sounds like you're just making stuff up.

As a miracle worker, I get that all the time.

Out here on the left coast the extension programs at the various University Of California campuses have some Linux Kernel classes. These tend to be developed and taught by engineers in the industry with a real working knowledge of the subject.
UC Santa Cruz Extension, http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/ has an "Linux Kernel Architecture and Programming" which looks like an intro course. You can take it online or as two Saturdays. There is also a Linux device drivers class which a once a week class and an Advanced Device Drivers class which is 4 Saturdays.
I checked the other campuses but they all seem to be summer schedule with a limited set of classes.
Red Hat also has a one week Kernel internals class which is a "hands on" which to me means a trade off of less information for some finger programing of the brain.
All of these courses seem to have an introductory flavor to them. But I suspect that you will learn a lot about all of the various areas of the kernel and how the different parts hang together. My experience as kernel hacker is that I have learned a lot about the parts I am interested in, but that there are many big areas of the kernel that I only have a superficial understanding of.

Hope this helps
RLH

For good practice you might want to get a PC and install FreeBSD or one of the Linuxes to familiarize yourself with the resources, shell programming, etc.

The taxes of stock options are tricky. IANATA. For those in the bay area (silicon valley), there is an upcoming course on stock options for employees (a one-day thing) offered by UCSC Extension. Click here