Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Qualifications, squalifications

I've spent the past few days sitting in lectures about mountain guiding and becoming a mountain leader. What a waste of time! The only reason I'm going this is to get a qualification, a piece of paper that says I've studied, in a classroom, everything I've done practically in the field. I fuses I understand the importance of a qualification, ous a test that you do know something about something but at the same time a week long course will never give you what experience can.

I'm sitting in these lectures with a guy who has never done anything like this before and after this course he wants to start a guiding company! Its insane to me that after just over a week he'll legally be allowed to do that! People will place their trust in his abilities and decision making and he has absolutely no experience. I've been doing this for only 3 seasons and sto like to know there is someone out there who has been doing this for 30 years and will advise me properly.

I want to hope he succeeds because its never nice to wish someone failure but I worry what the cost will be of that success.