PADI loves you...

...PADI wil organize some training for you. Why? Because PADI loves when you take new courses. Even if they're the tiny little ones, like the Enriched Air Diving or Equipment Specialist specialties. Each time you sign up, you pay PADI for the book (you have to buy it) and the C-Card (if you don't buy it then what's the point in doing the speciality?). Ofcourse you also pay for the training, but that's OK - instructors have to earn their living. For simple specialties the cost of the certificate and the book can be equal to the cost of the training:/ That's why PADI likes when you develop your skills.
And after the course you end up with a deck of C-Cards you should carry with you when you go diving...
This problem is less annoying when it comes to more complex courses, like Rescue Diver or Divemaster. The cost of handbook and C-Card is not so big compared to the overall cost of this courses, and they take you to a next level of your diving career (and you can discard your previous ccards :) ).

Oh, and there are also the "Crewpacks" - you can get, for example, an original Rescue Diver badge:>

I'm not against C-Cards, but when you have several specialties they get troublesome. And sometimes you just HAVE TO learn new ways to dive. Ie.: Dry Suits (water is cold in Poland, for me two longer dives a day is much), Deep Diver (some things ARE deep down, and I'm thinking about Tec Deep Diver), Ice Diver (to dive in winter), Wreck Diver, etc.
For each of these specialties I will get a card, so it`ll be about 10 cards to carry... It would be nice if I just had one card for all specialties and get a hologram sticker from my instructor each time I pass a new exam. The diving center would report my specialties to PADI HQ (like they do now) so there would be record of my training. PADI people, think about that....