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Was just saying... Most freshers at uni at 18.
And to whom ever said gcse are worthless your very wrong.
They are required to get into college and progress with education.
I'd like a job as a System builder, advice!
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Was just saying... Most freshers at uni at 18.
And to whom ever said gcse are worthless your very wrong.
They are required to get into college and progress with education.
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Not always, I messed up my gcse's but went on to college/uni and then the job I wanted. I also quit college the first time round and started university at 21. Pretty much goes against everything you said. Thinking about it most of my course was older than your 'your 18, should be at Uni' requirement.
To the Op, don't worry if you keep learning and take advantage of opportunities you will get somewhere. I think like a lot of us when you first get introduced to PC's you want to be a system builder. Seems you also lack confidence which should improve as you build skills. Posting on GD probably won't help. Your only 18, just use your time wisely.
Maybe calm down on the wow, all in moderation!
Excuse and spelling/grammar. iPhone
You seem nice.
To the OP, system building really isn't much of a career but you could build on your skills through additional courses and so on and find that there are avenues to grow into. No hurdle, whether it be a lack of GCSEs or whatever, is insurmountable.
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Just lie on your CV about GCSE's. Most company's don't care whether you can quote Shakespeare. It's all about the interview in my opinion. Experience is what they are after. Get yourself into a CompTIA+ course. That should get you started into the world of computers and you can expand your qualifications from their.
I hope you've got your flame suit on!
I agree about the CompTIA course but not with the lying! GCSEs can be picked up at a later date. OP you should just pick the GCSEs you're missing and enrole to do them again at some point. School is a bit of a crock sometimes, you'll do much better when you want to do it than when you HAVE to do it
I don't see the big point with the arguments for getting academic qualifications in. I have no gcse's above a D grade and only a BTEC 1st from a 1 year college that touched on the very basics of programming in visual basic.
Now i'm on a very good wage for a 23 year old doing web design and development, i'm completely self-tought and have no formal qualifications in the field and have my own flat etc, earning much more than my friends who went into a-levels and university and now in big debts and struggling to put there degrees into use and who r stuck in retail shops like river island selling clothes etc...
Just shows that a certificate is worth as about as much as the paper it's printed on.
I'd say stick at what you like doing, practice, read and learn as much as you can and then try and go for jobs, even if it means maybe not earning much for the beginning part and things will get better, hopefully.
Now i'm on a very good wage for a 23 year old doing web design and development, i'm completely self-tought and have no formal qualifications in the field and have my own flat etc, earning much more than my friends who went into a-levels and university and now in big debts and struggling to put there degrees into use and who r stuck in retail shops like river island selling clothes etc...
Just shows that a certificate is worth as about as much as the paper it's printed on.
I'd say stick at what you like doing, practice, read and learn as much as you can and then try and go for jobs, even if it means maybe not earning much for the beginning part and things will get better, hopefully.
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4 GCSE's are enough to get on any course at a college level, and arent a requirement to get professional qualifications like CCNA or MCSA.
Personally I dont even include my GCSE results on my CV, they're not used when job hunting more when applying for education, It judges the level you begin at.
Also, If you look at at most apprenticeships they want a minimum of 3, So you have that ticket aswell.
Personally I dont even include my GCSE results on my CV, they're not used when job hunting more when applying for education, It judges the level you begin at.
Also, If you look at at most apprenticeships they want a minimum of 3, So you have that ticket aswell.
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this sadly
when you're building systems on a big scale its just assembly line minimum wage stuff.
but not necessary in order to do anything other than minimum wage stuff
they just make it easier.
MD of my company started donkey's years ago as a sales advisor on the phone earning about minimum wage. He just worked his way up.
If you have a talent, no lack of certificates is going to stop you.
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Not sure about the wages but strongly disagree with the last part of the comment. Actually not everyone can build their pc. If that was the case then dell/HP mainstream desktop business would be out of the window by now. When compared to the whole general population, its actually very tiny minority who build their own pcs like people on this forums. Also we only probably constitute 0.0001% of the whole country .Lol
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Not sure about the wages but strongly disagree with the last part of the comment. Actually not everyone can build their pc. If that was the case then dell/HP mainstream desktop business would be out of the window by now. When compared to the whole general population, its actually very tiny minority who build their own pcs like people on this forums. Also we only probably constitute 0.0001% of the whole country .Lol
This is true, my brother who is an electrician, My uncle a TV engineer and my cousin who is a mechanic, They all phone me when it comes to computer repair and building. 3 able technically minded individuals who wont touch the inside of a computer.
Dont get me wrong, any idiot can learn to build a system. Would seem most would prefer someone else to do it for them though.
No need to put GCSE results on your CV when you have something to supercede them. I don't put my A level results on my CV because it's a waste of space when you have 7 years experience to write about instead. But when you've got nothing, what do you put?
We all had to start somewhere and quoting the few who are the exception to the rule isn't going to help in general terms.
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Not sure about the wages but strongly disagree with the last part of the comment. Actually not everyone can build their pc. If that was the case then dell/HP mainstream desktop business would be out of the window by now. When compared to the whole general population, its actually very tiny minority who build their own pcs like people on this forums. Also we only probably constitute 0.0001% of the whole country .Lol
A tiny minority do build their own PCs, but the point is that it isn't particularly skilled labour. It's easier to teach somebody to build a PC than it is to teach somebody to build a house, yet house builders aren't exactly seen as being highly skilled. Nobody will earn big bucks building PCs (unless they set up a successful business, which obviously requires considerably more skills than just the technical stuff) as you could train a 15 year old dropout from school to do a capable job.
