Yeah, the MCSE courses can be expensive though; I'm going to do Comptia A+ first self study and go from there. The last firm I worked for was a computer firm that developed bespoke business software mainly for food production lines. They had a small retail shop as well which I looked after the repair / tech support side of it. Unfortunatley the business had to close the shop so I put a little advert in the village supermarket to offer to fix computer problems. I also rent out my old house for the moment as I could not sell it so that brings in some income after deducting mortgage payments.
Thanks for your suggetions.
Edit: another murder last night, this time it was pretty horrific as the body had been tied to a bonfire and then set alight. Jesus I thought that stopped in the dark ages. I want to move as far away from Bradford as I can now. If you read the description on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bradford it sounds like a nice place, well its not. It's a craphole. Uh-oh I'm starting to rant again. Ahem.
