First thing you need to focus on is your computer certifications... getting a degree is nice but in my experiene certifications prove you actually know what your doing.. I work with a lot of people that have computer science degrees... and they know somethings... but I would expect them to know more


get some certs... A+, Net+, a few microsoft certs, a unix cert, and a few cisco certs will all help..

A degree does help aswell... so start with a bachelors in CIS, computer information systems..


Second... start looking for work.. your going to need a background in technology to be trusted with a network... you can outsource many jobs to india, but someone has to be on our soil running the networks at home... so that is making it a harder field to get into being you have to know your stuff to compete.

Find a job at a business doing pc repair, get in with geeksquad, find an internship...

dice.com , monster.com
I frequently get temp job offers from these 2 sites for tech work... some as simple as just swapping out computers 4pm-2am at an office building.. some more complex like doing phone tech support... it all works as reference and work experience.