On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 12:16:09 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Continuing education to maintain credentials or licenses is part of
"being on your own".

I am in that situation myself with my inspector license but it is
somewhat a scam to generate revenue for the CEU providers. I
understand that some people will not actually do any learning on their
own and they need a minimum level of competence but I could teach the
courses I have to go to because I do keep up with code changes and new
products on my own. I usually take all of the CEUs acceptible out of
my specialty, just so I can learn new things. I took the SREF course a
few years ago (State Requirements for Educational Facilities). It was
an eye opener.