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After almost two years: thinking of a new certification

 It has been almost two years since I decided to pursue a certification for the Project Management Professional (PMP), but now I'm aiming for another certifcation.

2019 - DELF A1 (French) and DELE A1 (Spanish)

2020 - PMP

2021 - DELF B1 (French language certification) 

2022 - (?!)

It's going to be August, and I'm contemplating in getting a Disciplined Agile (DA) certification. 

I'm not sure what value will it give my current work life right now. And even the other certifications that I have right now, I'm not sure what value it actually gives me. 

Although, I have this personal goal now to make my Spanish at least at par with my French skills as I started with Spanish prior taking French classes.

I also still have that ongoing online double Masters from ENEB for Masters in Project Management and Masters in Business Administration. What value will it give? Not sure as well, hahahaha!

There are so many things that I should be doing, but I don't want to do them. :/ Is it because I really don't find value in doing them, and that we should focus our energy into other things? 

Perhaps that could be it...


Now, on to the cost of potential certifications. I'm willing to take out a loan from SSS to fund my certifications, but I want to do an analysis first:

DASM - $280 ~ PHP 16,000

DELE A2 lessons - EUR 150 ~ PHP 9,000 (does not include my plans for taking italki courses or even Spanish conversations on the side to further enhance it)


I'm still on an exploratory mode on this, maybe I'll revisit this once I get some opinions from Antoine. :)

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