employment & IT & computers advice needed?

Q. I work for a supermarket in home shopping in administration for home shopping and have been doing this job for 2 years. managing a system that picks orders then i check what has been picked and then get the paperwork to the drivers ready for delivery. The thing is I don't seem to be developing and see other people get promoted all the time except me.

So I have been looking into doing a IT computers ICT degree with the open university mainly because I understand employers look for people with degrees. I have a HND in design communications but still this is not a degree. I have seen good IT jobs with good salary's and need a good wage to pay for a mortgage I am also thinking about doing a microsoft certified course maybe with computeach. Am I doing all the right things here? is their any advise you would give with the down turn my main concern is if lots of people like me are retraining in IT will their be any jobs left. I think with me having 2 years admin experience it does give me a good advantage as I think alot of employers will want a mix of both experience and qualifications even after I got the degree I will need to think what direction I will want to go to weather it be systems or hardware or website and HTML maintenance. so many things to think about in which direction I should go after the degree stage. I have basic computer building knowledge and would consider my knowledge average not a beginner but no expert either. I have a friend who works along side of me he is doing the computeach course i think its either 2 or 1 years long which includes the a++ stuff maybe .net too.

But I said to him if you not got a degree will you really get a job. on the internet I read that some one with 30 years experience was made redundant he tried applying for other jobs and got interviews very easily but he was told be cause he did not get a degree he could not be offered the job can any company's and IT professionals give me lots of advise I would be very grateful hope to here from lots of advisers thanks for your time.

ps- I am talking about the UK near Leeds here.

A. I assume the IT world is not so different in the UK as in the US. So there are three things to consider:

First, IT is a good field insofar as there is often high demand. But a bad field in that businesses quickly put as much IT on hold as they can when the economy weakens, plus there is a lot of competition from other sources, mainly very affordable talent from other countries.

Second, there are three main paths in IT -- hardware (helpdesk), software (programming), and LAN admin/security. Of those three, hardware/helpdesk is the "squishiest" field because it doesn't involve a lot of rare specialized skills. (As opposed to being a PHP guru or a highly regarded computer security expert, for example)

Three, when it comes to IT, employers don't place a lot of stock in education (degrees). They trust certifications a bit more, but still not much. They have all seen a lot of great IT talent with no formal credentials, and a lot of IT professionals with degrees and certifications who were real plodders. So, it's all about results.

That all being said, you have a couple of important advantages working in your favor. A lot of It people have crap communication skills -- clearly yours are solid. And second, a lot of IT people don't understand business, they just understand techie stuff. Your background gives you that insight. There are two other paths in IT you may want to consider -- IT project management, and being a business analyst. You should be able to find education/training for either (or perhaps I should say both -- they work together very well).

Good luck!

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Q. My PC was fine until I accidently pressed the RESET switch on the case, Now my PC won't bootup I have placed the WINDOWS XP disk into the DVD-ROM drive I do have the WINDOWS VISTA disk but I have not much Ram to install WINDOWS VISTA I finally I installed XP and It Still won't boot up It says "NO BOOT RECORD FOUND" please help on a solution on this problem
I HAVE DONE A CLEAN INSTALL

A. You cannot mix Operating Systems, nor can you install them into the same Partition!

I suggest a clean install.

Disconnect your system from the Internet. Boot with your XP disk. READ THE SCREEN!

Select New Install, delete ALL partitions, create 20GB partition.
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http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/Windows-XP-PowerPacker.shtml

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