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It's just the first day of blogging, and I'm feeling...

 I have decided to document my journey to becoming a PMP through this blog. It's only the first day of blogging and I already had three entries! 

But the thing is, I'm starting to lose confidence in me taking the exam. Not because I'm thinking I can't do it, but thinking more if it's worth it.

The fact that I am paying this out of of pocket, I'm just thinking if this would make me a better project manager. The cost is not a joke.

I think becoming a member of PMI right now might be good though for me as I could resources in terms of managing my projects and all and I do think it is worth it...but taking the exam now? Hmmm, maybe not so much at this point. Unless of course I'm looking into finding a different job into project management, I think it would be a wise investment.

But in reality? I just think this is like me pursuing a degree.

Maybe I got hooked into that Tiktok song now that goes called "You Got It" and it has that line "go get that degree...focus on me". Heck, it even got that line "fix your credit" but I ain't fixin' my credit anytime hahahaha!

Maybe a bit of listening to that song will boost my confidence.


Now for a bit reading,while I was writing this, I found this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pmp-vs-mba-michelle-labrosse-ccpm-pmp-pmi-acp/ 



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