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I started my a+ course at the start of this year and I am averaging 89% at the moment. I am thoughly enjoying this course and am hoping to sit my exam soon. I has been a tough year though with having to move three times due to my house being sold by my landlord and then my partner becoming pregnant, thus we moved to bucks so she could be with her parents during the pregnacy. For the month of November, a good part of my time was shared between:- my studies and work, though I had to resubmit some of the tutor marked assighment, I felt satisfied that I achieved. I am happy with the progress I made. I am begining to feel much more confident with Hardware and software maintenance. The marks I attained were good. I didn't have internet, but I am now happy that I can log into student world in the evening to follow online training. I am very happy with the achievement I have got from SkillsTrain and I have shown it to my company this month, which the management is pleased with the outcome on my job. I am 36 of age, and I was working in (UCLH) university college of London hospital which I was a supervisor in domestic department. I was happy with my job and I loved it. I got up one day and I said to myself I want to have a change in my life. I decided to join skills train: I tell you I have been different since I come to know SkillsTrain. Now I am looking in the future leaving what I hated behind. I would consider my main achievements so far in my course has to be the learning curve in what I have learnt in computers and pc's so far, I can diagnose, strip-down and re-build a faulty pc with no need to revert to looking in any books or on the internet for help and advice. I started my course in 2005 but fell behind and slowly stopped doing it. Now I've started it again I failed the first Tutor Marked Assignment, so I knuckled down and in the last three weeks, I've done three Tutor Marked Assignments. I have come out with a 90% on TMA02 and TMA03 and have just submitted TMA04. It May be hard but I have acheived something and undertand the workings of a computer better now than I ever did before. When I came here a 1.2 year ago I thought I can never find a job better than work on the production assembly line, After months of trying to find a job close to IT, struggling the studying, homelife, kids and work (shifts patterns) I can finally see that it will all be worth it in the end - thank's to my hard work and knowledge from my studies I got a better job in Virgin Media as a Service Technician and this role will give me more time to study and more time for homelife and will help me to have try move more into the I.T dept. Last month finally I got a new Job close to IT and telecommunication business. I am 30 years old and I have been working in a factorys for most of my life working dirrerent shift patterns I have no skills or future. So I decided to do something about it and sign up with the skills train. I started the a+ (msca course) iam half way through the first book and iam am already giving advice to colleages and freinds how to fix problems and to upgrade their computers.thanks to skillstrain I can see a future infront of me now for me and my family. I have been with skills train now for a year, it has not been easy, my wife has depression and anxiety and up until August this year I have been working 3 jobs as well as doing my A+. Th course has kept me focussed despite not being able to commit as much time as I would like. At the beginning of September I was diagnosed with depression due to my workload and the pressures of family life. The A+ is almost complete and I am looking forward to the N+. With my new qualification I hope to change jobs and reduce my workload. 2008 could look a lot less stressful and a lot more hopeful. I have enjoyed every single part of my course so far and even due to ill health in 2006 and a near marriage breakdown I have returned this year to resume my studies,I'm now even more determind to pass my course and show people that even through aversities and struggles,that I can do it. Since I started my course I have found it very hard to settle into a routine of study due to the hectic pace of life for mdern day young families. I have changed my job 3 times since I started the course so it has been hard to set time aside to study at the same time as getting use to new jobs. I am now settled in my job as a postman which I started at the beggining of April and this October as a family we have made some changes to help me progress with my course. My wife has given up her job at tesco so that she can pick the children up from school, which then allows me to come home do housework and study before the children get home I find it very important to have peace and quiet whilst studying, although I am having to work extra hours as a postman to make up the money which my wife is now not earning so I go in early everyday (4:30am) to make that up, and we are also being agents for avon to bring in a bit extra to help. I have found it very usefull to draw up a plan to set time aside for everything in the day, including study and even the time I go to bed, it sounds very boring but it realy does work. I also had to change my course material to the 2006 objectives as I would not be finished on the 2003 objectives in time to take the examination so that was a bit of a set back to start the tma's again. But as I said we've made changes in October and I have already passed 3 tmas and I am waiting for results on a 4th, I am now determined to continue at this rate until I finish the course and then go onto the N+ course, I'll keep you all posted on my progress.
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