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Time and Difficulty Don’t Equal Value

Question: Joe spent two days to earn his driver’s license. Jane spent two years to earn her commercial pilot’s license. Which one had the more rigorous education?

Answer: Trick question. The value of any education is whether it adequately teaches you what you need to know to do whatever it is you want to do. The fact that Jane spent two years learning to fly airplanes doesn’t diminish the value of Joe’s being able to drive a car. So to say that Jane’s education was more rigorous than Joe’s is irrelevant and beside the point, because you’re comparing two courses of study that taught different subjects.

So why are we bringing this up? Because you can earn the Certified Senior Advisor (CSA)® credential by investing 60 or 70 hours, some persons think that it’s less rigorous than a financial planning credential that might take 600 or 700 hours. But the CSA training shows you how to work with seniors and to have an understanding of how growing older influences our lives, and that knowledge is helpful to you no matter what your field. A financial planning credential teaches completely different material to people who want to be financial planners. That’s why for most professionals (including about 600 CFPs), it’s not a case of choosing between CSA and another designation. It’s adding CSA to whatever other education you have so that you can better apply your knowledge with seniors.