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My name is David Richardson and I reside in UK. I am thinking of a career change and would like to get into computers as a career. I have started a thread under "training and development" with the title "anyone help - career changer?". If anyone would like to add their thoughts that would be much appreciated.

I do not work with computers at present so have not got the all important first step in the door yet, but am hoping that with a qualification behind me I might be able to join the ranks of IT employment.

Look forward to all the comments made on the forum and hopefully when experienced will add some of my own.

David

 

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Dave,

Welcome to the cert forums
Hope you stay around to use the vast amount of help, support and knowledge availible.

 

Greetings David,welcome to the community

 

Greetings, David. Welcome to CertForum. Rest assured, you are not the only career changer in our ranks. Hope we can be of assistance.

 

Hi Dave, and welcome from me too. I suppose the first thing to ask is what experience or knowledge level of PC hardware and software do you have at the moment, and which areas do you find yourself drawn to (eg tech, programming, web design, gaming, etc)

There are probably loads of answers here already, depending on the answers you give to the above. To be honest, some patience, a bit of judicious use of the "Search" button, and plain old just hanging out here will hopefully yield MUCH more information for you than just one simple (and probably too-vague) answer on this post.

Enjoy m8

 

Welcome to CF.

 

My experience is limited. I know a little html. I enjoy the programming side of this but am not too great with design aspect, so don't think web design is for me. Not done anything with hardware so not sure about A+ etc. So think I would like to go for programming/database

Any thoughts welcome
David

 

Have a look at the Programming, Scripting & Web Design and MCAS / MCSD Boards for a start, They may give you some ideas if this is what your after