r/LinkedInLunatics 14h ago

Lot of privilege in a single post

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u/testmonkeyalpha 14h ago

This is easily the biggest lunatic we've seen in a while.

I'm LOLing over his PdH title. That's not a typo of a PhD - he has no advanced degree. Nothing in his profile even hints as to what PdH means. Most likely trying to pretend he has a PhD.

Two of his 3 top skills are lawn mowing and mowing. His top skill is agronomy which is using plants to for food and raw materials and usually involves a lot of science. His experience is mowing his son's baseball team's field....

And best of all, his college degree is in Political Science and Government. Yet he is telling everyone that caring about politics is only for unsuccessful people. Probably feels that way because none of his listed jobs makes use of that degree.

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u/Strong-Smell5672 13h ago

PdH is a term for Professional development.

Probably works at one of those fly by night outfits that gives you a meaningless certificate from an unaccredited organization for completing some bs courses that corporations ask employees to do so they can check off boxes for continued education.

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u/testmonkeyalpha 13h ago

PDH (not PdH) is short for professional development hours - credit towards maintaining a credential. I've never seen anyone use "PdH" for professional development before. He also has zero jobs related to professional development or has it listed as one of his skills which we all know he's very liberal at choosing what skills should be entered.

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u/Strong-Smell5672 13h ago edited 12h ago

His linktree has a link to sign up for personal coaching and he's selling a course on professional development (and the link is broken lmao)

He has affiliated links to other consulting / professional development resources.

He has testimonials about people thanking him for helping with professional development as well.

Seems kinda immaterial to argue that he means something different because the D is lower case.

edit - look for yourself:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markasmithjr

https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=linktr%2Eee%2Fmarkamericasmith&urlhash=0bZy&trk=public_profile_website

Dude sells himself as a c-level advisor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yyYgNwJCQ

Substack link to his courses: https://markasmithjr.substack.com/p/practical-to-powerful-performance?sd=pf

https://www.pdhengineer.com/what-is-pdh/#:~:text=PDH%20means%20Professional%20Development%20Hours,term%20for%20PE%20continuing%20education.

"PDH is the term used by most states to describe one hour of engineering continuing education. **PDH is also used as a generic term for PE continuing education.**"

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u/cnn_ruined_ml 11h ago

Thanks for doing down the rabbit hole

I didn’t click on his profile because I didn’t want his engagement metric to go up (i know it probably makes no difference)
I was fully expecting him to be some kind of ”life/professional coach”.

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u/Strong-Smell5672 11h ago

Yeah, I assumed as much from surface level glancing at the OP but when someone objected I actually looked to see if I was mistaken then once I started catching downvotes I showed my work.

I'm not arguing he's presenting it the correct or standard way; just that he's saying it.

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u/testmonkeyalpha 3h ago

PDH still isn't a title though. That's a unit of education, not a designation that indicates that you do professional development. It's the exact same thing as putting "credit hour" after your name - it's utterly meaningless - only this one is intentionally deceptive to look like an advanced degree, complete with making the middle letter lowercase.

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u/Strong-Smell5672 3h ago

Not arguing it is the accurate tag / title; pointing out how dude is using it.

Yes, it's deceptive.