Am going to keep it short. Am 26 currently been working for uber and lyft. I got admitted into Arizona State University last year. My entrance exams included mathematics. I have always struggled with mathematics all my life and the most i can do is basic number sets and operations and that’s it. Please don’t bother recommending any way to improve because trust me i have tried. My mom is a teacher and a counselor and my dad was a teacher as well. All my siblings are well educated in math and they have tried and i have deleted my YouTube, Facebook, gym membership etc. to focus and nothing has changed and even fell in love with it but every time i would fall asleep during math’s class. Please please please please, if anyone has a good career advice or any solution to bypass this and get into a career that is rewarding and deserves my handwork, i will appreciate it. I’ve had no zeal to move on with life anymore because of am very ambitious, good person and hardworking. I wanted to plead to my fellow humans for help and that’s all i have before i make my next decision!

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    Thank youu Soo much. And what certifications do you recommend? and sources you got them from. Am sure you understand how mentally grueling and unfair this stuff is! 😕

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      Start with your MTA. That’s the basic IT cert for getting into Help Desk type roles.

      From there your next cert should be A+. If you can skip the MTA and get A+ by itself that’d be good but A+ is harder.

      From there it depends what you want to do it IT. Networking? Get the Network+ Cert. Cyber Security? Get the Security+ and CISA and CISSP certs.

      I’m a Systems Admin. So I got these Certs (Most recent at top).

      Start at the bottom and go up. Skip VMware unless you want to be a VMware Architect

      AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      CompTIA Security+ (SY0-501) – Security Plus

      Apple Certified Associate – Mac Integration

      CompTIA A+ (220-901 and 220-902) – A Plus

      VMWare Certified Associate (VCA-WM) – Workforce Mobility

      VMWare Certified Associate (VCA-DCV) – Data Center Virtualization

      Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) – Windows Operating System

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        Thank youu soo much for taking the time to respond and analyze the information in a great order. It means alot to me in a time like this. I hope youll still be here once i get my career and i can come back to thank you one last time again. 🙏 🙏