Grateful for some experienced advice!

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Hello!

Without going into my background much, i left school with 2 GCSE'S - A-C being History and Maths.

Now my current situation is, im 25 with some debt so college/Uni really is not an option at this moment in time.

Regarding GCSE's i could pick up 3 in September not doing too much damage to my pocket being cheap/FREE(English Language, Physics,>something easy<) evening classes.

During this i could attain A+ N+ S+ linux+ (MCDST equivalent) providing all goes well, applying for a first line tech support role.

Would like to get into linux based systems in the future not entirely sure on what path i'd like to take.

Now if anyone could point out if i'd be best served taking a different route, i'd appreciate your input!

Thanks!

 

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Go for it!

Best advice would be not to worry about College\Uni at this time, you may not have the best grades, but if your enthusiastic and willing to learn then you have more than a lot of people out there.
I see a lot of people going for degrees and coming out with no or little experiance and its a total waste, quite a few really struggle to get first line jobs cause they are overqualified but under experianced!. Yes the Degree is usefull but not untill you have been in the job for severaly years and are looking to move up into management. (Look into the OU in a few years time)

Your best bet is to get hands on knowlage of what you want to do, start of with the basics and learn your way up. your plan for certs makes sence, add to that some practical experiance, by part time work (paid or Volenteering) so that when you go for interviews you have both paper and practical experiance and you will get where you want to go!

Dont try to take on to many Certs or qualifications all at once, you will burn out (IT should be a relativly FUN experiance) and remember to mach your paper with practical experinace.

One last thing, its hard work getting into IT, if you read through some of the posts here you will see that its taken years for some people but it is worth it. So stick in when things get tough.

Best of Luck!