Computer Training
This updates the article:

Computer Training for Not Yet Techies

Computer training continues to be a fairly large industry,
important to the IT industry and a big
part of the overall vocational training field.

Its profile has gone down somewhat, at least in St Louis
with the demise of the local weekly computer newspapers
that seem to have bitten the dust, or at least are distributed
a lot less

than they were three and four years ago. But they still
exist -- and I still hear ads for one or two on local radio
stations, which must be more expensive than the old
computer newspaper handouts that used to be full of their ads.

There are even more certifications to offer classes in than
there used to be. CNE classes have gone downhill but Oracle
and security classes have been added.

I know a guy who was going to take MCSE classes at a local
vocational school that has been in the business of vocational
training for years, so it's not a fly by night taking advantage of the
trend computer school. They were even going to give him a
Help Desk job paying about $13 an hour upfront to work while
going to school, and expected to give him overtime hours.

With the experience he already has (He was once hired to wire
up a house full of webcams. The man who paid him expected to
find numerous attractive young women to do things in front of those
webcams.), my friend expected he would find the MCSE classes
and tests fairly easy.

Not only that -- since he has some Indian ancestry, the government
was going to pay for his tuition!

For personal reasons that have nothing to do with computer
training, he didn't accept this offer, but it's good to know that
some people can still get the training and even a job while still in
training.
- posted by RickStooker @ 7:48 AM