accreditation to exist - more insane nonsense

While we are on the subject of rules, regulations, OHS, discrimination and all the rest of the crap which makes us the most over regulated country on the planet; lets take a quick peek into the companies that actually accredit people with a wad of paper that allows them to officially ‘catch a bus’. Yep, that’s what you read. There is an official accreditation course on how to ‘Catch a bus’. Of course this notion is just ridiculous to the extreme and; like most of the other accredited courses, is just another money making cash cow for those people involved in supply. The courses are all bullsh*t with the excuse [ tired and over worn ] that most people must be protected from them selves and litigation by others, which, like the U.S.A. has gotten out of control. In theory, a house holder cannot even change a light globe – an authorized electrician must do it. Yours truly has been doing engineering and electrics for nearly half a century and all the certificates I hold have jack to do with any of these disciplines. All of the certificates I hold do not help me what-so-ever in my forte field but are supposedly required to even exist or pick up a screw driver. It’s no wonder there are so many incompetent tradies out there because most of their working life is spent getting these crap pieces of paper that allows them to practice what they can’t do in the first place. When I went for one of these certificates, the trainer said ‘There are two worlds today; fantasy land and reality land. Fantasy land is here. When you get your certification you can forget Fantasy land and start living in reality land. Unfortunately, some people have been living in Fantasy land for so long, they can’t tell the difference when they leave here’.
There are three major advances in the field of engineering that I have directly inspired or contributed to. Every one on the planet is using one right now or at least has come across one [ unless you live in a tribe in Tibet and herd sheep in the mountains]. I will not say what they are as this will immediately identify me absolutely to certain people who might take exception to this blog or at least be either embarrassed or think me a little strange.
Needless to say, I can officially declare I once held copy write to all three but the final development was later taken up by people with a bucket load of R and D money and a big company after I released copy write claim. All this, without a single piece of paper proclaiming me ‘competent’ by people who don’t know the meaning of the word.