The Most Re-curing Question?

[Quammus]

Hey, so I am very new to the linustechtips forums as this is my first post heh. I have watched and been a fan of Linus for the last few years and love anything thing that has to do with computers. My question is how ever, how would I seek entrance to make working with computers a career? I see many job postings over the internet but they all require qualifications I do not own. (my main favourite part is building and taking them apart) but have no idea were to start. A second part to my question is, what are the chances of trying to start up a little side business of my own and getting it to grow?

[Radium_Angel]

3 minutes ago, Quammus said:

Hey, so I am very new to the linustechtips forums as this is my first post heh. I have watched and been a fan of Linus for the last few years and love anything thing that has to do with computers. My question is how ever, how would I seek entrance to make working with computers a career? I see many job postings over the internet but they all require qualifications I do not own. (my main favourite part is building and taking them apart) but have no idea were to start. A second part to my question is, what are the chances of trying to start up a little side business of my own and getting it to grow?

A+ and Net+ Cert.

Gives you the basics of hardware and networking

 

After that, you can specialize. CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Admin, IIRC) for routers, Linux certs to be a Linux admin, etc.

Don't do programming, unless you are a masochist

Database Admin is a well paying career.

[myselfolli]

Starting a business by building PCs out of your basement usually doesn't end up working out

 

Are you more interested in the physical (hardware) side of things or are you trying to get into programming. Because I find the latter to be really enjoyable, contrary to what @Radium_Angel said _{(I can neither confirm nor deny I am a masochist tho)}.

 

I don't know where you're from, but does your country have apprenticeship programs? Where you can simultaneously work for a company and go to school to learn about the stuff you're doing? That's usually a good place to start, it's what I'm currently doing.

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, myselfolli said:

Because I find the latter to be really enjoyable

I was a mainframe programmer and did COBOL and Assembly.

COBOL I've since forgotten, thanks to a few years of therapy.

Assembly will take a .45 to the brainpan to expunge from my nightmares

 

[Quammus]

Awesome replies and thank you all for your input, I am mainly in to the hardware part but am very open to any topic the deals in computers. I'll be sure to check them all out, thank you all.

[Sauron]

35 minutes ago, Quammus said:

Hey, so I am very new to the linustechtips forums as this is my first post heh. I have watched and been a fan of Linus for the last few years and love anything thing that has to do with computers. My question is how ever, how would I seek entrance to make working with computers a career? I see many job postings over the internet but they all require qualifications I do not own. (my main favourite part is building and taking them apart) but have no idea were to start. A second part to my question is, what are the chances of trying to start up a little side business of my own and getting it to grow?

What do you mean by "working with computers"? If anything that has to do with computers interests you, definitely pursue a computer science or engineering degree - those are the most sure fire way to get a nice job in the field. Building computers, on the other hand, won't get you very far. There are a few boutique builders around but they are small and rare, and retail hardware vendors that might require their employees to build custom pcs are gradually disappearing (e.g. ncix) - not that they ever paid that well to begin with.

 

So to answer the last part of the question, slim to none - at least in the realm of pc building. If you were to start making android apps or web apps, on the other hand, you might get somewhere eventually and it wouldn't require any initial financial investment on your part.