If you may be starting with a trainer that still provides workshops as part of their program, then consider these hassles encountered by many students:

- All that travelling - many journeys and often over 100 miles a pop.

- Requesting constant holidays or time off - most companies provide availability during weekdays and link several days together. If you're working then this can be difficult, and this is made worse if travelling time is added into the mix.

- If we get twenty days annual leave, spending half on training days leaves very little time for holidays.

- 'In-Centre' days can 'sell out' fast and will likely end up bigger than you'd hoped.

- Tension is sometimes created in the classroom because most students want to move at a pace comfortable for them.

- Let's not overlook the added financial outlay of driving or taking public transport and bed and breakfast either. Often, this will cost a lot of money - from hundreds to thousands. Do the maths yourself - it'll shock and surprise you.

- We all enjoy our privacy. We don't want to risk losing any possible promotion at our current place of work because we're getting trained in a different area.

- Asking questions in a class full of students will often make any one of us feel awkward. Ever avoided asking a question as you didn't want to look foolish?

- Living away for part of your working week - a minority of trainees have to work or live somewhere else for certain parts of their training. Days in-centre become problematic to attend, unfortunately the money has already changed hands in your initial payment.

Many students discover a more flexible approach is to use pre-filmed lessons at home, in comfort - and do it when it's convenient to you - not someone else. Whenever you get stuck, get onto the live 24x7 support (that should come with any technical program.) Don't forget, if you've got a laptop, study can take place anywhere. Note-taking is gone forever - all the lessons are prepared and laid out for you - ready to go. Anything you want to do over, it's all right there. Even though this won't remove every problem, it unquestionably reduces stress and eases things. Plus you've got less hassle, costs and travel.

Technology and IT is amongst the most exciting and ground-breaking industries to be involved in today. To be dealing with leading-edge technology is to be a part of the massive changes shaping life over the next few decades. Computer technology and interaction on the internet will noticeably shape our lifestyles in the future; to a vast degree.

Should receiving a good salary be high on your goal sheet, you will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the income on average for the majority of IT staff is a lot greater than with the rest of the economy. The search for professionally qualified and skilled IT workers is assured for many years to come, thanks to the constant growth in IT dependency in commerce and the vast shortage still present.

'Exam Guarantees' are often bundled with training offers - this always means exams have to be paid for upfront, before you've even made a start on the course. But before you get taken in by a course with such a promise, why not look at the following:

We all know that we're still paying for it - it's quite obvious to see that it's already been included in the overall price charged by the training company. It's certainly not free (although some people will believe anything the marketing companies think up these days!) Trainees who enter their exams one by one, funding them as they go are much more likely to pass. They're aware of their investment and take the necessary steps to ensure they are ready.

Do your exams as locally as possible and hold on to your money and pay for the exam when you take it. Why tie up your cash (or borrow more than you need) for examination fees when you didn't need to? Big margins are secured by training companies charging all their exam fees up-front - and hoping either that you won't take them, or it will be a long time before you do. In addition to this, 'Exam Guarantees' often aren't worth the paper they're written on. The majority of companies won't pay again for an exam until you have demonstrated conclusively that you won't fail again.

Average exam fees were about 112 pounds last year via local VUE or Pro-metric centres throughout the country. Therefore, why splash out often many hundreds of pounds extra to get 'Exam Guarantees', when common sense dictates that the responsible approach is a commitment to studying and the use of authorised exam preparation tools.

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