About four and half years ago I was in a job that I hated, so I considered learning I.T. I knew nothing about computers, not even how to switch one on or off. I looked into it but did not follow it up, until last year.

How I ended up doing I.T. is as follows:

Firstly I changed my job in the hope that it was the other job that I didn’t like and I would enjoy the new job more more. Then I went on holiday and had a heart attack. This meant a long time off work but I did go back after 4 months, but a month later I was told I had to have emergency heart surgery or die! I underwent the operation and luckily survived to tell the tale! However I was told afterwards I could no longer do any heavy lifting in jobs, and that would be for the rest of my life. So I started to look into IT training. After a search I found Pjs and actually began learning IT at last. I found not only was it not as hard as I thought it was going to be but that I was good at it. I ended up getting 16 eDCC certificates. Not only that but was nominated as adult learner of the year in 2006. I gained enough confidence to attend a course at MANCAT and gained a Clait 2006 certificate. Now I am doing an ECDL there.

Also because I so enjoyed my courses at Pjs I now work there as a volunteer as a teaching assistant. It is great fun. I would certainly say to other people that you should try new things and learn new skills. In that way you can do something you enjoy instead of being stuck in a job that makes you miserable.

This is a brief description how I got into computing. I got there in the END.

TONY.V.