What should I do?

Well I knew it would come to this sooner or later, as I have started to settle on my meds I am wondering about my future and what I should start doing to make it better than my past. I have as most of you would have know worked in the IT industry for all of my adult life, and its something that I enjoy even when I say I am not. More importantly I suppose is the fact I have done all of this work with no qualifications. This is something I think I should seriously look into doing.

I think I should look into a full time course based on the fact that I believe that with my experience that I would be a very valuable addition to any organization once I am fully trained. I have worked in IT for since leaving high school, and have had some fairly large clients including several government departments. The thing is now I think I will work for someone else instead of myself I have really had enough of all of the issues that go with it, including paperwork etc that you don't get paid to do. For once I would like to get paid to have a holiday instead of loose money while I am away. Its all a little different I know.

I suppose I am wondering tonight whether enrolling for a open learning degree is for me, after all I can work from home and then don't have to go onsite for learning and that would suit if I was not feeling well. Also I thought that I will have graduated at the end of the course and can then look for work. It means a full 3 years on social security while I complete the course but as per normal the course is only runs for 9 months of the year and the payments from social security continue as long as you stay enrolled, so there will be no issues for me there I would hope.

oh well let me know what you think a degree here would be a good thing and I think now is a perfect time in my life to stop and re-evaluate what I can achieve and by that I mean. I think I can achieve a qualification for work, that I have been doing for over 10 years. Would be nice to have that bit of paper on the wall.

Ok I am stopping this rant now it is rather again incoherent and babbled on about.. I await your comments

The Horse

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