It totally depends what you want to do in IT.
IT is a huge environment, and you could spend significantly more than the cost of a degree on training without much effort if, for example, you went down the Cisco network path. In my opinion, don't spend any cash without really understanding what you want to do. I've spent literally tens of thousands on training, but its all useful to me.
Personally, I'm not hugely technical. I can roughly understand what the turbo geeks are saying, and I can translate that into business speak. As such, and because I still love the flashing lights of new IT kit, I work in IT Service Management. Based on this I have a load of the ITIL qualifications. My job is basically just talking to people and managing relationships. Pretty good fun really. There is obviously a load more stuff that goes with it, but broadly speaking that is what I do.
If that sounds interesting, you need to be searching for something like a Service Management Analyst role, or maybe even pick a discipline like Service Level Management or Incident Management.
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