I.T. Technician course

bitslice said:
What courses does your college do?

Don't bother with an IT technician course, most of what you need is learnt by doing or googling or reading technical books. All 10 year olds know more than teachers in this subject, nothing has changed in that regard for 30 years.
Don't do it if you are not a geek, nothing worse than a crap IT bod.

It looks like whatever I did doesn't exist any more but there should be some electronic/electrical courses available, even part time. This is a subject which needs tutoring.

Meanwhile, have a look for courses on CNC programming.
As a hobby, look at ardunios, teaches you a lot about a huge array of subjects.
Ebay, bag of random bits and a youtube electronics course - > go

Get on a PLC programming course, jobs in that everywhere.

Local universities sometimes do evening classes too
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would have thought anyone on this site would be a geek :D

Will keep applying and looking of work/courses
 
Zairs said:
Following on from my apprenticeship thread, I thought I would look into a training course that would lead into employment.

I'd really like to be an I.T. technician or an Electrical Technician, I dont have much money, so would want the course to be as cheap as possible, but also needs to be something an employer would acknowledge
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As far as IT monkey roles are concerned... perhaps get yourself into a 1st line role

also re: IT - don't do a course if money is tight... buy relevant books(s), (second hand... or even find cheap .pdfs online (not condoning pirate e-books m'kay))... then just pay exam fee & collect cert...
 
nope sorry... I'm not an IT Technician but rather some years ago I was going to do some finance exams and it became fairly apparent that the training companies were a complete rip off and you could quite easily cover the relevant material yourself. AFAIK a lot of IT related courses are the same...

You should probably establish what you actually want to do first anyway... figure out if there is a way to get your foot in the door right now and/or if not then what could you do quickly to change that... as far as basic IT stuff in general is concerned it seems the likes of the A+, N+ seem to be the very entry level things to go for:

This guy seems to have some free material that might be of use to begin with:

http://www.professormesser.com/
 
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