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Hi there, please could someone help me on some I.T advice????? I'm a newbie
My name is Vincent and I wandering if you anyone can help,
I received my first ever i.t qualifications in 2010 when i was 18 at an i.t academy (Advanced Apprenticeship).
2 of which were the MCDST and the COMPTIA A+ (I did not take the COMPTIA N+ as I really wasn???t too keen on networking at the time and it also was an optional exam)
I also achieved the City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ for I.T Professionals and the City & Guilds Level 3 Advanced Diploma for IT Practitioners,
I would like to further my knowledge but am unclear on my next move.
I am not sure what to study - maybe the MCSA or the MCSE, MCTS:WIN7 Configuration or maybe upgrade my MCDST to an MCITP?
I do not have any knowledge what so ever around windows servers, exchange, SQL and AD etc. as they were not covered in my I.T training
I don???t really like the programming and web-developing side of I.T; due to the fact I tried for a software engineering degree at university but left due to me realising I am more interested in the technical side
and also learning language from scratch (JAVA,HTML C++) and within a week realising my hate for it!!. (I know I didn???t research my degree properly and rushed in not thinking)
But it was mainly not being able to find a relevant degree towards my interests. (Although now, after leaving uni, I realised there was a computer networking degree, which would have been relevant but still do not want to return to uni).
And I would really prefer to do and to learn more about things like operating systems and installation, deployment of o/s and hardware configuration etc.
Since uni however,
I have worked in first line support, with my pre-university qualifications as described at the beginning (MCDST etc.) but left after a few months as I had personal problems at the time.
I have had a lot of interviews surrounding roles such as; support engineer, 1st line support, I.T tech. roles etc.
and securing work is (thank god) ok for me,
it is the academic route on which I am very unclear on and need some help.
Can someone please help guide me or offer me any sort of advice on what I should do?
Much appreciated
Vinnie.