Everyone wants to be recognized for something. This has resulted in an explosion of different ways to be recognized, ranging from spending money to get your own trophy (or get your name engraved on a brick, or monogrammed shirts, or…) to “being there” awards where you are recognized for simply being somewhere.
Add in employers trying to keep you motivated to stay trained, or happy with “non-tangible things” (i.e., almost anything except more money), or government agencies expecting everyone to have credentials for complex tasks, and virtually anyone can end up with a large stack of paper credentials. Such as:
or this:
I’ve created a responsive web gallery of not quite 80 such honors and awards.
