Re: Advice Needed.

From: Alvin Bruney [MVP] (vapor)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:13:35 -0500

do you live in america? if you do, there are millions of dollars in
scholarship money - pell grants, instate tuition waivers and on and on and
on. you should try to get back into school. otherwise, if you can't, pick
one of them large companies and start out small, mail boy. hard work can get
you anywhere. 

-- 
Regards,
Alvin Bruney
[ASP.NET MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx]
Got tidbits? Get it here... http://tinyurl.com/27***
"WStoreyII" <papastoreyii@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
news:cRlFc.5416$zu7.3575@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
> This question is for all of the developers out there.  I recently had to
> drop out of school as it was getting way to expensive and i just could not
> pay it.  I am really upset about this becuase i really want to become a
> computer programmer.  I dont have any degrees or certificates or any other
> formal training.  But i do learn quick.  Now i am not asking for a job 
> from
> anyone ( although any offers would be nice).  I am asking more for any
> advice that  can be offered on getting a foot in to the door of the
> information and software engineering market, considering my current 
> status.
> I mean even if i had a degree, everyone wants experience (not that i blame
> them) but because of this how can i get a job in this market. To where i 
> can
> get the exprierience that i need.  For example a lot of the jobs that i 
> see
> ask for employees who can work with word and other ms office applications. 
> I
> can use these programs and picked it up just by using them, but
> unfortunately i do not have any documentation showing my knowledge of 
> these
> programs nor can i get a job working with them to learn to use them in a
> sense that is practical to them.  So how can i get to this point.  I dont
> know if any one here has had this problem or if you even understand what i
> am asking for.  But if you do and you have any advice for me, please share
> it.
>
> WStoreyII
>
>