uber-pro wrote:Yeah... Figured it wouldn't be that simple!!! Done a VB course recently, got me thinking computing again. might go for microsoft certification, they still worth getting? Certainly used to be 10 years ago!
Depends if you want to make good money. If you are happy being an I.T drone, then go for it.
If you want to make decent money and have a challenging job, learn a flavour of unix and go into systems administration.
There is also a lot of money in web developing believe it or not. Learn HTML5, CSS and PHP, along with MySQL and Postgres, and you'll earn a tidy wedge in no time.
PHP is also infinitely useful for data scraping, I've made good money off that this year.
VoIP is also a big area that i'm currently involved in. Look at freeswitch, download it and play around (
http://www.freeswitch.org)
Nobody uses VB anymore. Give it up as a bad job. The best you'll get is supporting some shitty legacy application in some small office that has a stale smell.
Cheers,
--bm.
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"