Having an A&P means nothing more than having the paperwork today unfortunately
The worst A&P I have seen, hired and fired are the ones coming from the military. They get their 2 years working on nothing but landing gear and then go cram for a test and take it. They knew absolutely nothing. Airforce crew chiefs in general are glorified fuel line guys and you have to really look at in detail what they have worked on to see if they got their A&P for real or just because they were military.
I hired 3 A&P from National Aviation Academy. 3 graduates. Complete junk. I fired them all. Now they are working under contract on the big jets. Good luck with that. If you are an A&P and I put a AN6-24 bolt in front of you and you can't by just looking at it blurt out that's an AN6 (3/8") bolt, you are not there yet. If I give you a Molex pin to crimp on an 18 gauge wire and your crimp does not pass Molex's own criteria, you need more training.