I believe you gentlemen missed the point I was trying to make in the article. What if you've got several college degrees and several decades of successful on the job experience and suddenly some blow-dried wimp tells you unless you get a "certificate" over and above your qualifications you will not be entitlled for full salary at the job you've been doing all yur life?

Furthermore, this certificate is primarily designed to provide the self-appointed issuer several hundred $ and will mean a lot of extra aggravation for you in order to get it. My point is that professionals have their university degrees, their career resumes, and the letters of recommendation from former employers to establish their credentials; they shouldn't need to pay blackmail to some professional association in order to get their permission to earn a living.