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Daughter came up with an interesting proposal for a winter family gathering this year. She thinks that we should go to Hawaii with her, her brother, and his wife, and all take a class being offered there in November to become Certified Barbeque Competition Judges. I don’t know how much call there is for Barbecue Judges, or how rigorous the one day training is. I suppose we could fine other things to do as long as were there. I would rather go to Paris and work with a master baguette maker.

Ever since I lived in Canada I giggle whenever I hear that something or someone is certified, as it has a different meaning in Canada and England than it does in the States. Those who we call Certified Public Accountants are called Chartered Public Accountants in Canada, as being “certified” there can mean that you have been declared seriously mentally ill, and may have been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Perhaps one would have to be a little crazy, though, to become a barbeque judge.

What would you like to become certified as? What are your experiences with judges or being a judge?

31 thoughts on “Certified”

  3. VS, I sent you some emails with chew toy pictures and brand names to assist in your search for indestructible chew toys. The pink and green one is pretty bedraggled.

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  5. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    Through the Master Gardener Program I am a Certified Food Preservation Specialist. That means I freeze and can foods. Many people with that certification also dry food as well, but I am not interested in that since I usually do not like the flavors of dried foods. Early this spring I was working on a certification for “Nature Heals” or therapeutic outdoor spaces and gardens. Mom’s care needs increased, the situation became grueling, and I have not finished my “homework” part of that, but I will probably do that soon. The whole point is that nature makes it less likely to be “certified.”

    I have heard the other definition of “certified” here, too, but it is not the exclusive meaning it is in Britain and Canada.

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  6. Years ago, when I was still working as a stage hand, they started requiring certification to drive the forklift. One night after the show and hearing about this from our boss, my buddy Pete was sitting in the forklift and I was sitting on the fender with him, Pete called out “I’m certifiable”. Nobody acknowledged him. So he said it again a bit louder “I’m certifiable!”. Crickets. We both shook our heads.

    I have taken the training now, and I am a certified lift operator. Meeting, genie lifts, and scissor lifts, not sure that includes forklifts.

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  7. Not much into being certified because I’d only want to be certified if it was a job requirement and writers don’t need to be certified . . . although one may successfully argue that most of us are “certifiable” in the Canadian sense.

    I was a district solo and ensemble judge a few times back in my band director days. I also judged wines at the Steele County Free Fair for several years. My advice: don’t come to Steele County looking for great wines unless you’re really into corn wine, garlic wine, or elderberry wine.

    Chris in Owatonna

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  9. I took a national test (similar to state boards) to become certified in high risk neonatal nursing. It didn’t mean anything in relation to the work itself but I did get a little bonus at the end of each year. I guess it was mostly a “prestige” certification.

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  11. I can’t think of anything that I want to be certified in. When I was working, there was always the opportunity for me to become a certified meeting planner. But they wouldn’t have paid me any more if I had become a CMP, and since I was already promoted as far as I could be promoted, it didn’t seem worthwhile. The only benefit to me would have been able to put fancy a** initials after my name on my work email.

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    1. Is there news from Hawaii??

      I have several ‘Certificates of Completion’ in lighting classes, rigging, programming… but it’s nothing I’d put after my name. I take the Private Pesticide Applicators course every 3 years. I don’t apply anything, but it’s good to keep up on it.

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  14. Robbie Robertson has died. A truly powerful songwriter. In this clip from The Last Waltz, Rick Danko takes the lead vocal, but Robertson wrote it and contributes the guitar solos. Reportedly, Levon Helm complained that Robertson’s mic was turned off for the filming of the movie, but it seems insignificant given that it was his song. As was The Weight, which is one of the most iconic songs of its century, also written by Robertson.

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