u/Active-Ad5229

Hey guys, after my last post I decided that I wanted to try to get back at it and actually get at least my two A+ certs and was wanting to know the best resources for that. I'm aware of Messner but I was wanting to know if anyone had a moderately priced online course that could get me prepped. I'm not really the best at self study so a program or something like that that could keep me on track and focus would be awesome!

Hey guys I've been trying to find some pathway into IT for a while now but current financial barriers are keeping me from being able to get any actual schooling done. A bit of a background about me, I'm currently working at a dead end job taking food deliveries and before that I was installing and mounting AV equipment and before that I worked at Best Buy both in geek squad in-store and in-home. I have a good bit of experience with computers "IN GENERAL", and the reason that's in capitals is because I think just about anyone on r/pcmasterrace has about the same level of experience as me or more, building them but that hasn't really translated into anything of worth to any entry level help desk jobs. I've been looking at getting A+ but then I realized that it's actually two tests since it covers so much material and that most places would want at least security+ and networking+ before they'd even consider me and on top of that from what I've seen online the entry level IT jobs are completely oversaturated and I could conceivably spend an entire yeah and a couple thousand dollars and still be job searching long after that. So what I'm really asking is, for a 30 something with practically no experience that matters to these companies, is it worth it to get these certificates or go back to school when I'm already drowning in debt and living paycheck to paycheck?

So I had to sell my computer a while ago to afford the down payment on a new car because of an accident and have been wanting to play BG3 without having to stream it from GFN. Anyway I sold a couple of more things and was able to come up with a few hundred dollars and was able to score a 3070 for $250 and I went with am4 since I had extra ddr4 sticks and got a b550m board and a 5600 for around $250 and I carried over a 1tb drive and a psu from leftover parts as well and was wanting to know if I did okay value-wise. I was looking at a 5060 but the models I see are almost $100 more and are only pcie x8 and the 3070 is x16 and I was having issues with pcie allocation before.

Edit: I ended up doing a SFF Jonsbo C6 build.