Hi all. I need some good advice from you guys. Not really a Linux question but a computer industry question. Hopefully someone in the business can give me an answer. I work in the construction industry. I studied Civil Engineering at college and took a few computer classes there - BASIC and fortran mostly. I have taken a few courses in recent years - C++ and TCP/IP. I have also done some web work and built quite a few computers on the side. Probably 80% of my work is done on computer and I administer our NT network also. I am seriously thinking about changing careers to computers. Does anybody have any ideas how someone would best go about this? I have thought about trying to get certified to have something to put on my resume. I know it is not a good thing to mention on a Linux User Group, but it seems that MCSE (or MCSA) certification seems fairly easy to get and appears to be accepted throughout the industry. I don't feel I know enough about Linux to become certified in it. What about CompTIA certs like network+? Does anyone have any good pointers? Am I missing something? Should I just stay where I am? I could use some advice from inside the industry. Thanks in advance. Ian -- Spruce: it does a body good