I am currently going to college 1 day a week to do a course titled: HP IT Essentials I : PC Hardware and Software which is a CISCO award and gives me the oportunity to do a CompTIA A+ as well. After that I move onto the "installation, maintenance and networking unit" IT Essentials 2 where I can also take the CompTIA Network+ exam. The second course covers: "Fundamentals (Cisco CCNA 1)" and "Router and Routing Basics (Cisco CCNA 2)".
Has anyone got any advice about where I go after that? I'd like to eventually get an MCSE, but AFAIK I need an MCSA first. I've been looking into various companies offering to do the whole fasttrack, subsidised training, with a guarenteed job at the end of it thing. But it seems to me some of them are possibly rip offs. Has anyone gone through one of these?
I'm finding my current course pretty easy, having been "playing about" with computers for quite a few years (I started back when DOS was the norm and Windows 3.1 was just coming out), and have worked on a part time basis for myself fixing basic problems for people with home PC's and teaching them how to use web browsers, word, excel etc.. So I'd hope I would be able to complete a fast track course without an enourmous struggle, as I already understand many of the concepts behind how computers work. (I know enough of everything to know that I know very little about anything if you understand me lol )