Do you remember that funny job posting we had a while back that sparked the debate about needing a level of experience that wasn't possible?<div><br></div><div>I just had a funny thought based on some banter with cloud folks on twitter.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you need cloud experience for a job, you can fast track it by just running multiple instances and measuring your experience in instance hours.</div><div><br></div><div>So if a person with one year's experience worked 50 weeks at 40 hours per week and 50% of their time on the task that they're reporting experience in, that is only 1,000 hours. You can fire up 125 EC2 nodes for 8 hours to get equivalent experience in a single day for the low of $85.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Take two weeks off from work and dedicate them to cloud computing and you'd be a seasoned veteran when you return. It'd be cheaper than getting almost any tech certification.<br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br><br>"Never stop learning" –Robert Nuzum (My dad)<br>
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