Looking to learn something to help me earn a bit more

[MissChief]

I'm now 43, stuck in a relatively dead end job with very few prospects and being driven up the wall with both boredom and decisions made on high with no relevance or awareness of what goes on 'down below' which again causes issues. I'm on £23.5k in Central Scotland and can't really move but with Edinburgh and Glasgow realtively close by it should be too much of an issue finding something suitable

So, I used to be will into computers and still am on the hardware side so thought about learning something new. I see 'stack' and '.net' stuff being advertised all the time, are these worth getting into? Can I learn these without paying thousands in online courses and certification? Obviously experience will be an issue, but I'm prepared to come in low, as long as it's more than I'm making, allowing for commute costs as well. I currently live 2 miles from my work!

Is there a 'next big thing' happening? Something I should get my foot in the door with? Can anyone recommend something? Where should I be looking?

Thanks.

[MissChief]

Faz50 said:

Along the computer line you could try and find contract work?

Desktop deployments etc build up from there and leading to project management of the same or in the IT field?

I get loads of these offering £100-120 a day but they're all short term, 3 months max. If anyone has done this sort of thing were they left without new contracts lined up? Left in the lurch at very short notice? Or were you generally kept on or got new contracts if you worked hard and kept your nose clean from one contract to the next?

[MissChief]

1TurboTom said:

how far from inverness are you?

VERY! Livingston!

Thanks for everyone that has chimed in, AWS looks interesting, I might look at that!

[MissChief]

Davie_GLA said:

You work at a well known broadcaster as i understand. Me too in infrastructure and operations (data centres).

PM me, there may be options.

Will do.