[ubuntu-uk] Advice for the future

[Daniel Lamb]

Experience is almost as important or even more important than degrees, my
advice would be find someone in your area then get some work with them if
you can, easy than it sounds I know you might even need to do it for free
but its good to get experience and then you will know what you want to focus
on. If you want to then work up to getting linux degrees or network with
cisco etc, can help you decide what part of IT you would want to work in as
it is a massive field.

Or if you like it you can be like some people(myself included) and get into
anything IT related from media players to massive servers. Which is fun, but
obviously pretty hard.

Regards,
Daniel 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jai Harrison
Sent: 16 October 2007 23:04
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Advice for the future

Hey,

I'm eighteen years old and I am on the second year of a BTEC National
Diploma for IT Practitioners. I'm looking at achieving either a DDM
(320 UCAS points) or DMM (280 UCAS points) at the end of the course. I
want to do Computer Science at University but I all of the good ones
want A level maths (which is something I don't have).

I'm wondering if I should take a university that doesn't need A level
maths, take A level maths and then University afterwards or just
generally give up and take another direction in life... I'm feeling
pretty lost and I figured that some of you must have gone through a
similar education path in the past.

- Jai

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