Hi folks I'm looking at a change in career direction at the moment, having taken time out to have a family. I'm a part qualified accountant, and in every job I've had, I've ended up being the person someone comes to for IT support! I now work part time running a business, maintaining and updating the company website (in asp) and pretty much all the day to day stuff. In my spare time I've written database driven websites (using VWD and doing some extra coding too, and SQL server 2005). Pretty simple stuff but good fun. I would like my next career move (when my youngest starts school in September 2009) to be into the world of vb.net programming. and to my point: As I don't currently work in the industry (which seems to be a prerequisite for most of these courses) what do you recommend my path should be? I was assuming I'd be looking at the foundation .net framework course, following up with MCTS in either web development or windows development (at the moment, I'm veering toward web development, but open to either suggestion) and eventually MCPD. I work and live in the UK if that has any bearing on what you'd suggest :)