Careers in IT

Rusko187 · 19 Oct 2015 at 13:48

Hi All,

I'm after a bit of advice, I'm 30 years old and have been working at management level in the Transport industry for the past 6 years. I've stumbled into this job but I get no satisfaction and I need a change in my life.

My question is I love computers, have built them, been around them all my life and have a good understanding of them but would love to work with them. In what capacity I'm honestly not sure but I'm after some advice on a potential career change.

What courses are best to study in my own time to help get a job in IT? What roles are available which pay a reasonable amount? Any sort of tips really.

Rusko187 · 19 Oct 2015 at 13:54

dowie said:
do you have a degree?

I don't, I'm looking at Open University courses and have seen a BSc Honours Computing and IT Course.. didn't know if it was worthwhile.

Richdog said:
Have you done a search? There are probably around 100 threads like this in the last 6-12 months.

Really sorry I didn't, just gandered about on the forums but didn't really do a search.

Rusko187 · 19 Oct 2015 at 13:54

SuperBOB said:
Do you enjoy management?

Don't particularly mind it, it's in a field which I have no interest in if I'm honest.

Rusko187 · 19 Oct 2015 at 14:29

Aside from GCSE my only other qualifications is accreditations within the Transport industry, not checked if they have any merit for anything else though.

I like the programming and software aspect of computing, in my youth I messed about with Visual Basic and made a couple of programs but never did anything more with it. Preferably would like something like this but no idea where to start.