It's quite some achievement that you're reading this article! Only one in ten folks are happy and satisfied by their jobs, but most of us just go off on one from time to time and nothing happens. As you've reached this page it's probable that you've a personal interest in re-training, so even now you're ahead of the game. What comes next is discover where you want to go and get going.

We'd politely request that prior to beginning any study program, you discuss your plans with a person who can see the bigger picture and can advise you. Such a person will go through personality profiling with you and give you guidance on the right role for you:

* Do you like to be around others at work? Are you better with new people or those you know well? Or you may prefer task-orientated work that you can complete alone?

* The banks and building sector are none too stable today, so think carefully about the sector that would suit you best?

* When you've done all your re-training, are you hoping your new skills will give you the ability to take you through to retirement?

* Do you expect your new knowledge base to give you the opportunity to discover new employment possibilities, and keep working until you choose to stop?

We request you to consider the IT sector - there are increasingly more roles than staff to fill them, because it's one of the few choices of career where the sector is expanding. Despite the opinions of certain people, it isn't just geeks gazing at their computer screens the whole time (if you like the sound of that though, they do exist.) Most positions are taken by people like you and me who enjoy a very nice lifestyle due to better than average wages.

If there's any chance you'll be enrolling with a training academy which is still pushing 'in-centre' days as a benefit of their course, then you should know about these problems encountered by almost all trainees:

* Frequent round journeys - normally 100's of miles or more.

* Monday to Friday accessibility with workshops is the norm, and getting two to three days out of work is usually problematic for the majority of students who work.

* The majority of us end up feeling 20 days holiday per year isn't enough by far. Use up a good 50 percent of that for study events and see your problems doubled.

* Classes normally end up over full.

* Often students are trying to maintain a quick pace, but some like to take it easier and want to set their own pace that fits. This causes tension and difficulty in most cases.

* Add up the cost of all the petrol, fares, parking, food and accommodation and you could be in for a major shock. Attendees mention extra costs ranging from hundreds to over a thousand pounds. Sit down and add it up - and understand where they're coming from.

* All of us want some privacy. We should never risk throwing away any lift up the ladder at our current place of work because of our studies.

* Posing questions around our class-mates can make any one of us a little nervous. Ever avoided asking a question because you were worried it might make you look silly?

* Don't forget, classes are basically impossible to attend, where you live or work away from home for some of the month.

The best possible solution is to watch a pre-made class - giving you the opportunity of instructor-led coaching whenever you wish. Study from home on your computer or out in the garden on your laptop. If you've got questions, then make use of the 24x7 support (that we hope you'll insist on with any technical courses.) You can come back to any of the elements as often as you need to. And of course, you don't have to jot down any notes as you'll have direct access to the instruction whenever you want to go back to it. Basically: You save time, hassle, money and steer clear of killing more trees.

Lately, do you find yourself questioning your job security? For most of us, we only think of this after something goes wrong. But in today's marketplace, the lesson often learned too late is that our job security doesn't really exist anymore, for nearly everyone now. We're able though to find security at market-level, by probing for areas of high demand, tied with work-skill shortages.

Offering the Information Technology (IT) business for example, the 2006 e-Skills study demonstrated a skills shortage throughout the country of around 26 percent. Accordingly, for each four job positions available around IT, companies can only locate trained staff for three of the four. This single truth on its own clearly demonstrates why Great Britain is in need of many more new trainees to become part of the IT industry. Unquestionably, this really is a fabulous time for retraining into the computer industry.

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