Right, lets start at the beginning I suppose.
My names Andy and on Friday 3rd March it’ll be my 40’th birthday. I’ve been into PC’s for about 6 years now. As a lot of us do I bought my first PC and also foolishly purchased the extended warranty which never got used. A year after I bought said PC I had started doing my own modifications to it anyway making the warranty void anyway.
As it stands now the only original part of the PC are the speakers he he!!!
As I had started getting *into* stripping and re-building PC’s I started doing work for friends and family, and then consiquently doing repairs and trouble shooting. A year ago I started my own business on the side to my day job doing system support, repairs and new builds. I opened up a few trade accounts and registered with Microsoft as an OEM systems builder. While all this is going on i’m still holding down a day job in a mechanical engineering company as Quality Manager which I hate by the way.
Last September I decided to take the plunge and work towards getting and MCSE or an MCSA qualification…. I’ve heard that Networking means a lot in IT. To do this in September I signed up for a CompTIA A+ course which I’m now half way through and all being well will qualify in April. After that I intend to start a CompTIA Network+ course which starts in September and goes through till Easter 2007, which is when the MCSE course is due to start. In the last year also I have been responsible for getting a new Client/Server network installed at my firm and have taken on the role of Systems Administrator as well as doing my own job. We’re only a small company so we only have one Windows 2003 server and 7 clients….. A nice small number in my opinion when your learning about networks 🙂
What I want to know is this. Are all these courses worth getting or is it all a waste of time, re changing my career? I’m desperate to get out of Engineering, it’s a dead loss career in the UK. What sort of job is out there for a guy that’s pretty savvy and clued up with a CompTIA A+ qualification? Or is the A+ just the first rung of a long ladder?