[JonnTEN]

I'd be inclined to settle for an AA opening, honest, except I haven't heard back from a single one I applied to--aside from the blatant scam I posted here a few days back. And I think the reason I haven't is that I'm competing, not only with dozens of veteran secretaries recently laid off due to the crummy economy, but also with hordes of essentially unskilled SOBs like myself. If you look in the WaPo Sunday jobs section, you see three major categories with openings: education, health care and "tech jobs," ie computers. I'd really like to break into one of those. Education, of course, is out of the question for people with my social skills...Asher, what kind of course could I take to become at least a little competitive? I asked my dad and he said Microsoft issues database management certifications that would make me extremely competitive, but that it would take several years of work to get that. Is there a less rigorous option?