I was referred here for advice

I have just begun the journey into a career change into the IT field. Before attending any career seminars, I was focusing on MCSE, but during my information gathering stage, I believe that an Oracle position would be better in the long run. I am not currently employed in an IT field, and realize that I'm not going to take a course or two, get certified, and be hired on as a Fortune 500 companies top DBA. My current plan is to take an Intro to Oracle 8 course. The facility offering this course claims that it is thorough prep for the first two exams toward Oracle 8 certification, and would prepare me for an entry level position writing code as a database developer.

Most of the people I've asked for advice don't seem to realize that I'm not trying to jump into a mid to upper level database position, and have been either unhelpful, or offered extremely negative advice, meaning I've been told that it is basically impossible to make a career change into IT.

I would appreciate opinions as to whether I am going about this in the proper fashion, or if a different route would be a better choice to make this change. If you are of the opinion that changing from a non-IT career to an IT career can't be done, I'd like to know that too, and would like to know your reasoning.

Any advice you can offer is appreciated.

Tom Stevens Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 19:45:08 CST