Pay for oracle courses on your own ?

Hello,
i wanted to ask you if anyone of you would pay for oracle training courses (which are about ~ 2.400 € here for ~ 5 days) on your own if your current employer refuses to pay for them and you would like to improve your chances on the job market.

[...] if your current employer refuses to pay for them
and you would like to improve your chances on the job market.I can see two sides to this situation...
If you are about to implement a technology (something like Dataguard or RAC) that's new to you then your employer should be providing you with the opportunity to develop the skills you are going to need. Whether that is through a knowledge transfer from colleagues, self training (such as CBTs or books) or attending a training course really depends on the situation (time, budget, opportunity, etc). If your employer isn't willing to do anything then you aren't getting the support you need from them to do your job properly and you need to decide whether that means it's time to move on or not.
Equally, your employer is not obliged to help you to 'improve your chances on the job market'. I've worked with people before who have been entirely unable to comprehend why our employer wouldn't send them on a week-long training course for a technology we not only didn't use but which we would almost certainly never use.
As for your specific question - no, I can't say that I would pay for Oracle courses myself. For one thing, I can't afford it... but even if I could, I think that reading the manuals (and maybe a good book or two) whilst sitting at a test system is probably a better use of five days.
Don't get me wrong - I've been on plenty of Oracle courses and think they are great. If my employer wants to spend £2k then I won't say no... but if I were paying myself I'd find it hard to balance up the cost with what I get out of it.

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    esc "&a0L"      Define Left Margin at Column 0     
    esc "(8M"     8M Symbol SetNote : As per pcl codes this happens to be Font Primary JIS Math 8 symbol     MICR Part 1 : Provided by the Vendor from where you the ROM cartridge
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    Fig. 8 APXPBFEG rdf file Signature printer mask and Format Triggers
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    esc "*t300R"     300 DPI Graphics resolution     
    esc "*p1500X"     Horiz position = 1500 Dots     
    esc "*p650Y"     Vert position = 470 Dots     
    esc "(4B" esc "(s1p53v0s0b102T"esc "&f0S!"     Symbol SetProportionalPoint Size 53UprightMedium WeightTypeface 102Push Cursor Position!     Vendor gave the us esc "(4B"esc"(s1p53v0s0b102T!"Note: the ! when the it pushes the ! and that is where it prints the signature piece. The first part forms the symbol set , say (4B and the later part forms the signature font and ! is the piece. I took the ! from the above and let it stay with the 3rd part of it so that signature does not print twice.
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    esc "*p+121Y"     Move down 121 Dots     
    esc "&f1S"     Pop Cursor Position     
    Table 3. Escape Sequences for Signature in APLAP.prt file and Explanation
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    Metalink Doc ID # 186640.1, Different Payment Formats …
    Metalink Doc ID # 60936.1, Step by Step Guide to Setup a Printer in Oracle Applications
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    Metalink Doc ID # 158486.1, APXPBFEL Evergreen (Long Laser)
    Metalink Doc ID # 146452.1, Listing of p_printer_code_mask Default Values for APXPBFEL
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