Would like to go into networking

[MartinJH]

After my recent redundancy I have finally got the opportunity to go on to something else as a career, I’m a qualified carpenter by trade and want to leave that behind for something to fall back on, if I have to. I love computers as no doubt a lot of you do and want to use them for a job. I heard the saying don't mix hobbies and work or something along those lines! But I’d love a job that involves them. I’m looking at going to college/university to learn more about networking, local at the moment. Maintaining, upgrading the usual admin stuff.
Is there any information anyone can share, especially if they have chosen this as a career. I live in the UK so if you have links and they specifically focus on the UK way of college/Uni and the involvement in detail etc then that’ll be a bonus.
I have read up for the local college and there isn’t a huge amount of detail on there, although I will arrange for a meeting with a careers adviser.

Many thanks

 

[MartinJH]

A polite bump.

 

[chiro]

Hey MartinJH.

Computing is a very diverse area. What kind of sub-area are you interesting in? Copmuter science? Computer/Electrical/Telecommunications Engineering? Business Systems?

There is quite a lot of variety in this field and it would help us if you narrowed it down a little.