Computer technitions and PC guru's need some help.?

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You will deserve the $120,000 income when you gain experience and show that you can perform at a $120,000 level. That does not happen overnight. A senior technician with a masters degree in computer science working for Oracle earns about $85,000, so based on your limited description of your background, you deserve about $35,000, not $120,000. Many people sign up with rentacoder.com and bid low on jobs just to gain the experience they need so they can market themselves at a higher pay. Good luck.

In order for you to get hired or even be able to be considered you will need to be able to sell yourself to that company. Even tho a degree or certifications might not actually make your smarter or better but it does show that you have committed time and effort to learn. Its difficult to prove to interviewers how hard working you are without the degree or certifications.

I think the fastest way for you to get ahead would be getting certifications since they generally do not have many prereqs so its not difficult to attain. Getting a degree will of course take 3-5 years depending on how dedicated you are.

I would say its rather hard to get 120k without having a degree so i suggest trying to get it as fast as possible. From what i read there arent many certifications that are good enough to replace a degree. The one i know that is actually really sought out for is the CCIE certification however, that certification cost i believe $2000 to take and only about 12000 people in the world have it.

To sum it up your best bet for now is to go after entry level certifications A+, or CCNA and that will help get into entry levels jobs at companies. While your at that go for your degree in comp eng, comp sci or info systems.

Most place will not hire you without atleast an A+ certificate. These are very simple to obtain especially if you already know the skills. Just a simple two part test . Part 1 focusing on Hardware, Part 2 focusing on Operating Systems.