I started this course to better myself ,for me but most of all to improve my earnings potential for my family.
I started back in 2007,just after the birth of my fourth child Nikita. But I have used computers for 3 years before, but never thought I could work on them.
I have always been interested in them,my wife thinks I could become a good computer techie. I certainly hope so .
Last November we lost our home due to money problems , which stems from when we lost our eldest son to a brain tumour, It put a lot of strain on our money which resulted in the outcome in November. We hope to be in a new home by December this year so we can give the children a good Christmas.
This course has helped me to get over our loss but also to help me stay focused on the tasks ahead, since I have been doing the course friends have been asking me to help them with there computers, plus I get a nice feeling when I have fixed their problem.
-Gary
Through difficult times, I have managed to pass my N+ exam and I'm progressing to the MCSA part of my course. The knowledge I gained during the N+ section allowed me to apply for a 2nd Line Technical Support Role for a very well known ISP.
Thankfully I have secured the position and hope to progress even further. It has been difficult managing work and then making time for studies. After securing the job I dedicated my time to revise and take the public exam in September which I have now passed. I am now looking forward to completing the MCSA certification.
-Masuad
First of all I am thanking skill train to shown me a path of success & dignity. Before joining the skill train I just know the word computer only I was totally nil about the computers and how it works & how we can solve the problems & lots more it's really a fantastic & interesting thing I never dream in my life. It's really helped me to help the people and my friends to sort the problems of PC with in a little time I gained a lots from skill train and really boosted my confidence level.
When I started this course I really don't known how I will finish this course because I was really getting bored when I started this course in the mean time I set my mind to drop this course but my wife really helped me and given me the power to start it again but now I realise the importance of this brilliant course.
When I started this course I was really short of time because I am working in 2 places full time & I got 2 kids & my wife is also working so due to all this problems at first I can't cope with the time & how and when to do the course ; but now I am really happy with this course and I am managing this problems and made a time table for my study. So I really advice all my colleagues and my friends to start this brilliant course.
Once more thanks to skills train
-Ani
The Live Internet Training was absolutely amazing. Great tutor, really good session, excellent complement of training book. But what I would suggest is to place really small assignment in the end of the session, let's say five questions and then discuss them along with students. Thumbs up, I'll attend again.
-Konrad
This is the first session that I have attended and I have to say how impressed I was. I thought that it might be boring and a bit repetitive but as I am doing my revision supplement I found that it was very helpful and even covered points that I was having trouble with. Thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying.
-Nadir
Since starting the course (C# Programming). I have playing around developing several small applications that help with work.
I have now completed several applications that work have endorsed as highly required. One of the larger applications, allows staff to set predefined Advanced NTFS permissions on folder. Add multiple users to multiple groups on an NT4 domain. Any folder created with this program is recorded in a Database for auditing purposes.
This program also allows Domain Users to submit files for archiving from their desktop, which sends data to the main applications database where staff in the IT section can respond to the request. All jobs are recorded with who does what and when.
I am also going to be working on web front end for the software.
Other smaller apps, take a folder structure written in Excel and creates all the required folders and again audits them into a relational database.
I have had great fun writing these applications and learning more and more about the .NET Framework. It hasn't been easy with work commitments doubling as my main role is actually a Manager of 26 servers and 2 SANs. So getting the time for development is difficult. I'm often writing the stuff at night, in conjunction with my course work.
But each day I try and add more to the main application, in a modular form so that people can still use what works. I have also developed so that it is moveable, rather than hardcoding for this Station.
Once complete and documented the RAF have said that they will provide a support contract for the software and any future releases of it.
Ultimately I beleive I have done well. I have saved the Air Force a considerable amount as they were going to pay for a company to develop a similar solution. But as I have done it, they get it for free.
-Edward
I had a relapse with my Mental health due to my mother passing away,
It brought losing my wife with cancer all back.
And Felt like packing my course in. on top off all that my desktop computer broke down and and my laptop too. But all my notes was typed and never printed out. So I lost all my notes from my course I did.
At least my laptop was covered under my service agreement. and was repaired but my desktop is unrepairable. due to the CPU burning out and frying everything.
I got my laptop back last week. But still felt like packing my course in.
After losing all my notes to my course and all the hours I put in to them.
But I remembered what my mother said to me before she passed away.
She told me she was really proud off me. Doing a course in website design with a mental illness is not very easy. She asked me to promise her that I would not give in. When things get on top off me Just take a break then get back into my course Work. She had told me there is not many courses one can take their time and allow you to take time off when you are ill. And never once have I been rushed to get my course work in. My mother told me I was very lucky to be able to do this course. Then I remembered on how proud she was off me Learning something new. I promised her I would finish my course and see it though to the End.
Knowing I cannot Work because off my Mental health But still willing to learn and better myself. That is why my mother was proud off me. I can work from home and designing websites For charities and doing it voluntary is a possibility.
But remember when you feel like packing in. There is always an answer to your problems it is called take a little break and when you start back Revise what you have done before working on your next assignment.
Although all my notes was typed on my desktop and now I have lost them they can be done again and also at the same time I am revising and catching up. The main thing is Revising and making notes to the Html is the most important and this needed doing anyway since my notes was to an earlier version so was not that much a lost anyway. So I will be going though Html in the afternoon and the rest on a evening so I don't get further behind.
My achievement was turning a disappointment in a good thing because off my notes was for an earlier version. Always look to change your disappointments around because there is an answer if you look for it.
-Garry
I was having a problem understanding how we obtained Public/Private and Shared keys this session gave me a greater understanding of how this process happened as well as giving me an insight into other more relative information needed for my foundation section of the CIW Web design Managers course. Many thanks really helped me, cheers for such a good presentation.
-Darren
The last couple of months, I have been under a lot of pressure with family commitments and health problems, but I have managed to successfully carry on with my course. Its been difficult, but by working as hard as possible every chance I have, I have managed to pass the assignments each time with a mark I never thought I could accomplish myself. It took me ages to find out which direction to go with my life, but this course has proved to be the best thing I could have ever done. Since I've started, I've had more and more people asking me for help with their computers, and helping them with problems, the phone hasn't stopped ringing. haha. And with my new found knowledge I have been able to help them every time.
-Jonathan
I've just returned from Nigeria and have an exciting story of surprise achievements that are directly related to my course at Skillstrain.
My best friend's dad died in June and normally a funeral is a big event in Nigeria because it attracts loads of people who knew the deceased. The burial date was fixed for early September and I offered to build a simple website where people could fill out their condolences and sympathies to the family - this was to be a gift to my friend because he would have to pay a huge amount for a specialist in Nigeria to build one for him.
I started by designing a page structure with simple HTML and CSS, but as the site construction developed, my friend kept coming up with ideas and I had to fit them all in to make him happy. What started as a one-paged site ended up in five pages, with a guestbook type of condolence register, a slideshow of the deceased's most memorable moments in life (built with an embedded flash player), the deceased's favourite music playing in the back-ground (using an embedded mini media player), and even a space for members of the public to donate something to the family of the deceased! (Built with simple HTML and JavaScript).
Up until the site was completed and hosted, I didn't even realise the magnitude of what I had done, to me it was more like having fun practising what I studied and love. It turned out so well that my friend even made reference to me in his farewell speech to attendees, saying I gave to him and his family the best gift a friend could give and he was very sure his late dad would be very grateful.
The best part of it is that I have been approached by THREE of the attendees already, and they each want me to build a similar site for their weddings and special event [which, in Nigeria is also a big event], the difference here is this time I am going to get paid very good money... I'm currently working closely with them regarding their requirements and then I will produce my cost and charges to them... I'm so excited about the prospect of becoming popular in my country of birth by consulting and using my IT skills.
This experience has opened up a whole new horizon in my business thinking, I used to think I would return to Nigeria someday and search for a good IT job but now I know I can consult and own my own business building and hosting sites
-Alexander
I have three children studying in Dudley. They seem to perplex me with the sudden mastery of the computer and internet usage they have all developed after only one year schooling in the UK. I have to call on them, even the youngest one who is primary school to show me how to go about so many things on the computer and the World Wide Web. Obviously, they know their father is intelligent, so they will sometimes mock at me for not understanding this or that on the computer or net and always asking them for support.
In the two weeks since I registered for this course, I have spent on average of about three hours studying my lessons or practising the lab sessions and practical exercises while they are at school, since I do not yet work on most days. Since about a week today, they are amazed with the sudden turn around on my knowledge of the computer, the hard and software's, the web and even my efforts to assist them in their own work on the net.
In brief, the experience is amazing. I have been working on the computer and the www for a number of years without formal foundations. My situation two weeks ago could actually be compared to that of an untrained blind man crossing a fast and heavy traffic dual carriage way without a guide. He hears the sound of traffic, but cannot decipher the direction, intensity of traffic or the speed at which the vehicles run through the lanes. This course is exactly like treatment for the blind man's old age blindness. I begin to see and understand how the modern communication technology works.
My hope is that I uphold the enthusiasm and continue to find the time and resources to enable me afford a complete cure of this age old computer and technological deficiency.
My thought is that, it is never too late to learn ICT and would encourage anyone who has the slightest possibility for find the opportunity to invest in studying it, be it for any reason. I begin to feel fulfilled, even though I am only at the beginning of the course.
More encouragement to my course adviser, tutor, and the administrative team.
-Raphael
My hardrive in my PC died on 10th September May it rest in peace (it was about 6 years old) rendering all but 2gb useless and the MacBook which was also in the house had just been sold on ebay. Unfortunately for me my studies had not yet made me sufficiently wary of how easily things can go wrong without to much warning and as a result was not backed up. On Thursday and Friday night after the nightmare of a broken computer I spent both evenings rebuilding the software environment on a new hard drive installing windows, countless drivers, a ton of windows updates and then all my recording software etc. After nearly throwing it all out of the window a number of times it was finished. As you can imagine I was pretty relieved and as I stood up to go to bed satisfied the job was done I tried to pick up my coffee and poured the whole thing all over my desk and more depressingly all over my digital camera and keyboard. The camera is dead and the keyboard is beyond cleaning. I suppose the only reason I'm entering this is in the vague hope you'll take pity on me. On the plus side I did manage to stay right on top of my work and did loads while I watched blue and green progress bars fill up for hours! I can't express how much I would appreciate the PC world vouchers at the moment especially looking at my bank balance and I think I'm quite a worthy recipient. Thanks either way!
-Simon
I started study in March 2007.
In September 2007 finished the CompTIA N+ certificate and moved on the CCNA course.
In October 2007 succesfuly finished CCNA1 and the same month applied for a job at NHS, as Computer Support Technician.
I've got circa 10 years experiance as a PC field technician back in my country - SLOVAKIA.
In January 2008 I got the job at NHS - Pembury Hospital as a Computer 2nd line Support Technician.
I'm about to complete my CCNA3 and hopefully this year will complete the whole CCNA course.
I study hard every day at least 1-2 hours.
I really enjoy working with the packet tracer and get all the help & support from the SkillsTrain Tutors Team.
Thank you very much.
Best regards
-Juraj
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