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[quote=Anonymous]I've worked in IT for ~30 years.  Which means that I started in the mid-'90s, when anyone who could spell "HTML" could get a well-paying job and learn by doing.

That said:  what does he want to do?  CompTIA is pretty basic help desk/network/PC troubleshooting stuff.  AWS is more about infrastructure and development work.  Does he want to do systems work?  Programming/development/cloud?  Networking?  Something else?  These are all very different career paths.

If he wants an entry-level help desk job, the best method is to get experience.  Get a job--any job--where people use computers and volunteer to help when people need help.  This becomes a relevant resume item for a help desk position ("helped co-workers with technology questions").  Retail (e.g. Micro Center) or computer repair shops might be useful places to start, too.  Even building gaming computers for friends is worth something.

For development, I would suggest volunteering some time to a small open-source project that needs programmers, either by submitting patches/bug fixes/feature enhancements, or by (probably after doing the above) working as one of the core developers on that project.  This, too, becomes a resume item ("contributed to X project, responsible for Y and Z components") and a place to send people who want code samples.  Many high-level programming jobs would expect advanced math and at least some college, but some people are just really good at doing the work and don't actually need the education.

So, I guess, the short answer here is "do something, anything" and find a way to relate it to the jobs that he wants to actually do.  Certifications can maybe help get one's foot in the door, but aren't (usually) actually necessary for anything, as long as one has the skills and experience that are necessary.[/quote]

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