Although I have been on the boards for a couple of days now, I thought I'd just drop a new thread extolling my refreshed presence (if that makes sense).

I'm back! It's good to see so many familiar... erm, nicks/handles are still around. And it's good to see so many new and regular members. We seem to have grown quite a bit in my absence.

Just to note on my happenings during the last 6ish months:

I started my Science teacher training practice at one school in Cornwall and complimented it with 'several' IT classes too, although my Uni tutor was not happy about it because I am 'a Sciences student'... until I pointed out to her that the Uni (at the time) did not offer a pure IT teaching course, and had withdrawn IT as a second subject for Science trainees, so how was I supposed to get any IT teaching experience any other way? Anyway, that went quite well, considering. My father was diagnosed with lung cancer in the December, so my first teaching practice was a little fraught.

Onto my second teaching practice - another Cornish school. Staff, and the whole school in general, seemed to be more friendly. My father had finished his chemo treatment and had his post-chemo scans around half-term, and things are looking good - they can't find any signs of the cancer, and they are sure it was a primary that they found (which is unusual for lung cancer). Teaching steps up a gear - and I find out just why it is getting such a bad press in the UK. It's about 10% teaching and 90% administration, and that's being optomistic! Anyway, I dropped the course recently because I basically didn't fit the profile of what "today's teacher" should be - I wasn't teaching to their schematic, I was teaching the way I thought you should teach, and it didn't do me any favours.

So, here I am. I am looking at going on an IT training course to try and break into the industry. Problem that I see is that I have absolutely no formal qualifications in IT and I don't know which way to turn. A+, Network+, LPI, RHCE, MSCE/MSCA/MCT, CCNA, CCNP, etc, etc.

Just looking around for the time being. Any suggestions are welcome, but please don't use this thread for 'no, this course is crap'. Pros and cons are greatfully received.

Cheers.

Wow! Welcome back!

Cool

Welcome back Thymox. As far as cert advice goes having taken the RHCE, Sair and LPI tests I would definitely steer anyone towards RHCE. While it is distro specific it is a much better general indicator of Linux knowledge (in my opinion ofcourse) than the other two.

--jeremy