I would say start small and slowly clime up. There is already quite a bit of excellent tips have been given by other listers. I personally started with IT hobby being family/ extended family IT guy. Got married and wife made me go to school for AA in Network Administration and support. By the end of finishing college, I started volunteering in local church and then in the churches' private school. Slowly after that I was managing 2 different company's networks, school and 2 grocery stores. Things got so busy so that we went and bought one of the grocery stores. LOL. Right now, we slowly start outsourcing IT to a consulting company, but my point is that I started very small from basically nothing to IT director in school and then to the store owner. BTW I do have certs. They are in the cupboard so as my diploma with owners. LOL. As for screen readers, what ever makes you able to get the job done, go for it. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fulton <mikefulton95@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 2:37 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] starting a career in IT Hello, I have been subscribed to this list for quite some time but haven't posted much. My name is Mike, and I graduated with a B.S. degree in IT about a year and a half ago. I have been struggling to get a job in IT to start my career. I am now in the process of studying for my CompTIA A+ certification, and then I'm going to start studying for MCSA. I was fortunate enough to ge able to get these costs covered by my state rehab agency. I have a few questions about starting my career, and am mainly looking for pointers, tips, tricks, etc. Would you agree that I'm getting the correct certs? My goal is to specialise in sysadmin or network admin. What general tips, tricks, and pointers do you have? What screen reader have you found works best to have on a thumb drive for accessing other systems? What other tools and techniques have you found useful? Any help and info you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Mike _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org