Experience is almost as important or even more important than degrees, my advice would be find someone in your area then get some work with them if you can, easy than it sounds I know you might even need to do it for free but its good to get experience and then you will know what you want to focus on. If you want to then work up to getting linux degrees or network with cisco etc, can help you decide what part of IT you would want to work in as it is a massive field.
Or if you like it you can be like some people(myself included) and get into anything IT related from media players to massive servers. Which is fun, but obviously pretty hard. Regards, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jai Harrison Sent: 16 October 2007 23:04 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Advice for the future Hey, I'm eighteen years old and I am on the second year of a BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners. I'm looking at achieving either a DDM (320 UCAS points) or DMM (280 UCAS points) at the end of the course. I want to do Computer Science at University but I all of the good ones want A level maths (which is something I don't have). I'm wondering if I should take a university that doesn't need A level maths, take A level maths and then University afterwards or just generally give up and take another direction in life... I'm feeling pretty lost and I figured that some of you must have gone through a similar education path in the past. - Jai -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
