Professional training
is expensive. Instructional designers make good money, classrooms are expensive, and so forth. Personally, I think that you should let an
employer pay for such things.
Many folks imagine that a certification is a "
Golden Ticket." It is
not. The lotsa-money that you pay for one,
might well be entirely wasted on you. (Whether it is or isn't ... depends on
you.)
I think that it is a much better choice to: "get an
entry-level job." Get
inside, any way you can. Then, show-up on time, neatly dressed ... listen much more than you talk ... do the tasks that you are given and politely-and-promptly
ask for help when needed. You will be surrounded by opportunities to learn.
Most importantly: "people will
speak well of you."
My first job was: tearing paper off a line-printer and shoving it through the proper slot. I didn't care: I was on the side of that wall where the machines were. I read every manual in the place (asking permission, of course).
I never looked over anyone's shoulder and read a password. I
never used a password that was not given to me. I became "trusted" the old-fashioned way ... I earned it.
And I learned stuff, and made connections, that you simply don't
get from a book. This was the place where the data-processing concerns of a University were being carried out ... computers were rack-mounted devices the size of bread-boxes at the time. 10-megabyte disks were the size of a small dishwasher and had removable platters.
It's been my career ... and it is still of great personal interest to me ... decades later. I still like to say that I made a living from my hobby.