"My computer background was basically helping my mom, brothers, sister and friends doing basic tasks on their computers. It all seemed like basic skills to me and it just made sense to me while I was working on a computer. I considered getting certified, because it sounded like a good idea to say I that I was “certified”, rather than saying I fix the family’s home computer from time to time.

I really like my new job because all I’m doing with my time is configuring computers non-stop. It is really fast-paced and I always have something going on in the position. Half the time I’m so involved in what I’m doing, I don’t bother looking at the clock. My biggest concern when entering the program was keeping up with the reading the books in their entirety. The books seem really big and full of many concepts what I had never known that a computer even did. For some reason after reading a chapter, it seemed like nothing really sank in at all. I was kind of worried that I wouldn’t understand anything from reading. However, during the next class session, the instructor basically discussed all the key points of the chapter I read a day or two before. Afterwards, I would briefly scan through the chapter and say, “Ah, that’s what that is.” or “That’s what he meant.”

To any new students considering enrolling with ComputerTraining.com, I would advise to go into it headstrong. When you begin in class, you must have solid concentration for the next six months to come. You cannot join and think that you'll gain the knowledge through osmosis by sleeping with the book under your head at night. The key things for me were test prep, labs and more test prep. Test prep provided me with most of the knowledge I learned by myself. Labs provided an actual visualization of the screen doing the process.

After graduating from ComputerTraining.com, I had finally landed a job as a configuration tech at a computer loaner program. I was beginning to feel slightly worried I wouldn’t get a new job before graduating. My interviews were not up to par, during the first few, but I did have many interviews. After interviewing for the configuration tech position, I was totally confident the job was mine. All I needed to do was make up my mind to take it or try another interview. I really liked the feeling I had about walking around the building, because I would be dealing with computers, but not in an office environment."

Tim Tzeiranakis
MCP
Configuration Technician