help

I have come to a cross roads in my future education. I had planned to go to college to do computer networking then get into the 3rd year at uni after my 2 years at college and do network engineering, however after pretty successful exam results, I have been accepted to do computer science at university. although, after listening to several people, I am lead to believe computer science is all maths and logic shit, and I generally suck turkey shit at this kinda thing, even though I am pretty good with computers.

I was just wondering what my fellow hgfers saw as the best option?

Go with networking... networking is a good job to get into and pays good money for little work.

We have ppl at our work who take tec calls and they are on £13,000 to £16,000 but the guys who do networkars are on well over £20,000 just for knowing there shit about networks..

Also I did some computer science back in college… End of the story is I walked out of class and told them to stick it as I’ve paid them money to teach me and I learnt fuck all from them.. I then left.. got my head in some books and now know all this web design and programming knowledge by teaching myself.. but yeah.. stick with the networks

kill yourself.

If you want to go and do higher education it is always good and there are also long term benefits to having a degree.

If you are wanting to do networking, industry recognised qualifications, such as MCSE and Cisco stuff will prove far more useful in the short term.

Jobs

Have a look on here at some of the jobs in support roles, it will give you an idea of what they pay and what you need to have (qualification wise) to get your foot in the door.

Hey thanks for the advice. Networking is what I want to do, so I'm gonna do the 2 year course at college, then hopefully if all goes well get into the 3rd year at uni and get the degree in network engineering.

There is more money in SAP programming, that would be the way I would go and still may.

SAP? Ah man I suck horse balls at programming, I dunno how I managed HTML, Basic and Java was just so hard at school, nevermind anything more technical.

Well for what it's woth I think your making the right decision to get your degree.

Getting a job afterwards won't be easy though at first, you will have to build up some experience and I would recommend taking on you MCP's now to give you a head start.

yeah, I reckon I am gonna have to get a job after my first year at college as a jakey technician or something like that and get some experience, then move up to higher things. Money wise, I am looking to earn around £35-£40K once I am fully qualified and have several years experience behind me. But in the short term, I realise money will be shit.

Have a look

MCSE

Getting at least some of these will stand you in good stead.

yeah I am going to be going for the MCSE certificate.

be a doctor dude, you get to see naked chicks and play with their boobs instead of staring at fat computer geek dudes all day!

Ah man if only, not smart enough though haha.