On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 19:16, Michael Havens wrote: > Right now it is just schooling. Which area of expertise is not being filled as > quickly as it needs to be. Or which area is being overlooked by many? > -- > :-)~Mike~(-: > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 04:38 pm, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 16:23, Michael Havens wrote: > > > A long time ago I endured a brain injury and as such, just recently, I > > > became involved with a state vocational rehabilitation councilor. it was > > > just after I became involved with this councilor that I started down the > > > Linux path and told him that I wanted to work in IT with Linux. I was > > > that with the economy like it is now I need to get training in an area > > > that isn't flooded with workers. I was hoping that all of you could let > > > me know what area isn't overloaded with workers who have recently become > > > unemployed. > > > > ------ > > well, I don't think anything in the IT field qualifies at this moment. > > > > You might want to take an entry level job with some ISP somewhere if you > > can get it just to learn whatever you can learn at whatever hourly wage > > you can get or even volunteer at a non-profit to work on computers. > > > > Craig > > ---- Since sysadmin doesn't fall into this category, I would have to recommend either... programming... - perl - java - c not necessarily in that order and better if you have some proficiency in all of them or database - oracle - IBM db - PostgreSQL or MySQL with the tool knowledge to create applications and reports Perhaps the GNUe toolkit might be the ticket here but I doubt the schools are teaching that yet. Craig