MYCOMPUTERCAREER.com IS A SCAM - BAD INSTRUCTORS - HARD SELL- Indianapolis, Indiana
signed up for the "pro" and they go through instructors plus the instructors literally just read from the book.
Nothing hands-on but copying the example from the book- that might have worked but there was no explanations given. Was just told to memorize but honestly I didn't nor did my classmates understand the material. Instructor(s) seemed uninterested. Save your money- the guy that owns this I learned worked for computertraining .com and mycomputercareer.com is in the same building. Search ripoff and the internet for computertraining.com - they closed their doors and lawsuits- now the place is almost reincarnated and in the same building! Save your money or fall prey - I wish I knew this before hand - now I'm holding the bag...just look before you leap with these smooth talkers promising 60k+ out of the shoot. even if I was hired I'd be fired quickly as I wouldn't feel competent after their training
MyComputerCareer.com My computer Career BEWARE. WORSE SCAM THAT WILL GET YOUR DREAMS BROKE. Irving , Texas
As a mature adult, looking for a change in career, I was an easy catch for this so called "MyComputerCareer.com". After a brief interview and explanation of how wonderful this school is, I signed up for their classes that was starting just few days away.
They start by promising a life time career service and 10 computer certifications in 7 months. All great right? Well, to start by saying that it costs near $21k for the worse teaching experience I ever had. There was only 2 teachers ( both smokers who would just disappear for cigarette breaks) and their method of teaching was the following:
- PowerPoint presentations that will last 1 hour of that boring and unprepared teacher reading out load.
- After the first horrifying hour, 3 hours of "hands on" lab; Are you kidding me? What hands on??? First day of class they make you download some pre-made labs ( supposedly step by step) and after that is pretty much good luck and send me your check for $21000 dlls.
- About a 20 % of the time we had issues with the network to do our labs ( A computer school with issues in their network should be a red flag).
- The labs are long and quite hard but it wouldnt be an issue IF the teacher would take all questions and answer; the entire class ( around 20 students) had issues in between the 3-5 lab and ALL of us had to start from the beginning with all the labs (about a 16-18 hrs wasted). The worse part of all this lab nightmare? Nobody had a clue of what we were doing and the "teacher" would ask a question with another question: Haven't you read the chapter?
I want to make sure that anyone going to this school do a very diligent research; I don't ask you to believe a word of what I am saying but don't cry later...because it will be to late. A quick resume of my horrible experience; I attended classes for 1 month; I learned few things ( all on my own ) and after leaving the school I got a bill for $4800 after already had paid $1500. If you ever go and take a look at this place ( I attended the Irving/Dallas Campus), take a look at their job placement ( Remember, they promise a LIFE TIME JOB PLACEMENT) and to your surprise, all of this jobs are paying between $12-15 dollar per hour; I am really sorry, I don't want to be mean, but for $12dlls anyone can go flip burger without having to be in deep debt.
As of today, I am having my lawyer to look over the contract and I will NOT pay another penny. I am also having my lawyer withdraw a letter to Better Business Bureau (BBB) with a former complain.
This school is just like the other reviews state, I dropped out after three months after realizing this school is a fraud and unrealistic to pass due to the pace and the crappy learning material. This school still is charging me 5k for what? I hate this school and will let everyone know about this shady place. I was even blocked on their Facebook page cause I was telling the truth. Oh well...
This school os a joke, I went to the Raleigh NC on-line program and its a joke. I just dropped the program and I have a feeling the will try to make me pay a huge chunk of the money. This school has zero hands on training and they lie to get you in the door. The program is super fast to the point you can not learn any of the information at all, you legit just memorize material to pass a test if that. The program is 23,805 to attend for 10 months of school and you are not even promised your certs that expire in three years, so basically you are wasting so much money on nothing.
This school is such a joke,I enrolled here and dropped after three months and I am sure I am gonna have to pay prob 10k dollars to them for nothing, the school is a lie, and I did not get any certs at all, they throw so much information at an "break your neck speed" I would not recommend this school. I am sure there are success stories but there are tons and tons of horrible reviews where people have been screwed over badly. The material is horrible they teach you with, and you can better material on YouTube or any where online for free and get certified for way less. Stay far away from this school as they feed you nothing but lies and even if you get all your certs they offer you 14-15 per hour jobs.
My computer career Falsifying Information in order to sign you into a contract with no intention of fulfilling obligation columbus Ohio
I am currently attending mycomputercareer in Columbus, Ohio. As in other stories I've read, I was brought in and told classes start in a few days and didn't have much time to think it over. Also in my case I was told that there would be a significant $5,000 price increase in tuition after this enrollment. The labs we are told to do are not user friendly. They have a completion rating and some labs just don't ever reach 100%. The teachers read straight from a power point for ten minutes to an hour and a half and then we're told to do our labs for the day.
When my virtual machine unregistered its key somehow, I asked two seperate instructors what I should do in order to fix it. One told me "I dunno", the other said, "I don't know what to tell you, I don't know what you did." I have called the front desk multiple times when not at the facility and not once have I recieved an answer, nor gotten a return phone call from the voicemails I've left. Many people feel abandoned in about every faccet here.
The amount of learning here is very little. Memorizing questions from our testing software is where you get most of your knowledge. If the labs would work they would be somewhat helpful too. You can purchase a key for a virtual machine online, all the testing engines and resources, and get access to everything they offer minus the instructors that offer literally zero help for under $600 for a years lease on all programs and virtualization tools. There is absolutely no hands on learning. The first day we disassembled and reassembled a desktop PC and that was the only thing I've ever touched aside from my laptop. Which is about a $700 ASUS A8 supplied by the "school".
I went to a "job fair" last week. The lady glanced at my resume and then went into her well recited speech about how in the IT field you need to have experience in a call center. Although I wasn't looking for a position like that and it wasn't exactly related to the field, employers really want you to have call center experience. The commercials Darron the guy who I first talked to when I came in to have my initial meeting said with just a few certifications, I can expect to make between 60 and 100K a year and even more if I really got into it. Also advertising that it would be good for my growing family as it would be a Monday through Friday 9-5 type position. The recruiter who I was set up with through My Computer Careers job fair offered $12 an hour for a job that was Thursday through Monday from 10 A.M.- 7 P.M. The job was taking complaint calls for Big Lots in a call center which has not one bit of IT involved and could have gotten that particular position walking in off the street.
When asked about how to get a better paying job the job placement people say you need experience. You have to work at one of these call centers, or as they so elegantly call them, "introductory level positions". A woman was getting upset last week asking why there is no hands on and why they're setting us up with recruiters for customer service jobs in call centers and they got pissy with her and refused to answer the questions she was asking. Then asked if anyone had any other concerns related to resumes or job fairs. No one said anything and they quickly grabbed their computers and left.
Literally not one thing here has any validity in calling it an education. They get government funding through FAFSA and do not provide said education, and definitely do not offer the results as far as job placement and implementing a career path. The education, the career, and your destiny is all in your hands. Just as it was before you signed up to pay them $20,000 to help you better your life. Not once have I been excited to have been here. Everything I do here I could do more productively at home. I can read a power point on my own, I don't need someone to stand up in front of me and read it for hours taking a fifteen minute break every 45 minutes. Not one thing about this experience has bettered my position. Althouh I'm keeping up with the requirements and have earned a few certifications, I'm still working in a restaraunt at the job I had when I started, making a better wage than what they are offering at the "hiring events".
Mycomputercareer.com My Computer Career My Computer Career.com dallas computer career .com A+ internet school college Irving Texas
I went to mycomputercareer.com a few years ago after hearing an ad on how they help you get a job after and low student loan payments. When i went for the interveiw the promised to find a Job after and lifetime career services....which after 2 years I recieved NONE!!! Also the instuctors are terrible. We had one that couldn't speak english for one of the Advanced courses (they fired him after...but I still didn't get anything from the wasted time and money. Also I couldn't attend the cisco training which is a seperate loan because I had to move and they said they would refund that loan which they haven't. And they changed it to all online for the cisco, then changed it back to both online and classroom. None of it it hands on. So basically you pay $25000 plus 9% interest which is alittle over $500 a month for your A+ which expires in a couple years. I tried contacting them a number of times and got no response. And to the positive posts on this site are from them so don't listen to them they are a RIP OFF!!! Please spend your money on a better school and get a degree.
Why did I use the username, ""A Better Life""? Because that is the key my computercareer.com uses for the wireless access to their network. A network that has a hard time to handle all the network traffic and sometimes it crashes due to a broadcast storm. To avoid an unreliable network, now they use wired access while real institution would fix the problem and let students have more flexibility which is the reason, we like wireless access. Just keep in mind that these people will be teaching you. This is problem number 1.
Let’s move to other problems with mycomputercareer.com. I graduated from this institution a while ago. I can tell you that some students will not receive one certification because they have not the ability to pass any of them. I have seen many students to just receive CompTIA A+, Network+, and the not counting MTAs and some walk off without any certs. The MTA are fairly easy exams, when students do their measure up exams, they will pass MTAs. However, I have not met any students, while I was there, to pass MCTS and MCITP exams, whose include 70-640, 70-642, 70-646, and 70-680. These exams are extremely hard and even instructors and flex instructors are failing them. Instructors, who are teaching the material to students and try to prepare them for the exams,
When you go to their orientation and they go through the spiel, they will tell you that you can make $60,000 and plus yearly as a professional, maybe if you have previous experience in the IT-Field, you might. However, be prepared to receive job offers, starting as little as $8.00 an hour. Most of the companies, my computercareer.com deals with are temporary agencies such as TechSystem, Modis, Kelly Services to name a few. While sitting through orientation, you will ask questions and not sure if the program is for you. They will tell you that you are smart and can do it, counting on your self-esteem. Do you want to be called dumb? Well, I don't. The recruiter, uses any method to lurk you in to believe that the program carrying a sticker of $19,500, will be beneficial for you, but at the end of the program, you can use the completion of the program by either framing it or put it away because it is useless. Well, after you gone through the sales bitch, they will directed you to Financial Director, hoping that you are not defaulted on your student loans, so FAFSA can be accessed and completed. Believe me; they will accept anybody, even drunks who they will kick off the premises afterwards. Just remember:
1st week 75 % of the tuition will be reimbursed
2nd week 50 % will be reimbursed
3rd wekk 25 % will be reimbursed
45th week; students are SOL
Everybody who walks through their door is just a walking dollar sign. The campus director is a very nice person to your face but she is fake like Front desk person, Recruiter, Career Counselor, and of course, the Financial Director. They do and say everything you want to hear by simply lying to you. By the way, mycomputercareer.com increased the tuition by $5,000 almost a year ago because they decided that a tablet and one additional course would justify it.
Let’s talk about the hands-on experience; you should gain from the institution. We worked on Hyper-V technology while the labs were written in Virtual-Box. Most of the labs didn't work and frustrated most of the students. The instructor would read for PowerPoint slide in record time and skipping many of them. He would take a lot of smoke breaks and sometimes disappears for hours or didn't even come back. Our breaks were 3 hours in an 8 hour day. The flex time is a joke. You just sit in a room and do the work you could have done at home but for the Financial Aid purpose, mycomputercareer.com is required to have students on campus for so many hours. AT this time, one of the campuses is on probation for not complying with the financial aid standards. Well, after each course, we had to take our final exam which was a measure up test in study mode. If the wrong answer was given, students could correct them and get an A on their finals. If students would have taken it in certificate mode, many students would have failed the entire program. Yes, it is memorizing the answers. I didn't have to read the questions anymore; I just looked at the answer, selected the right answer one and completed my test with an A. There were only 100-160 questions in the bank; it is easy to remember the answers. Learning material are books copied as .pdf files, software is from DreamSparks that is a Microsoft website for free software that is good for two years, and videos with some instructor talking about the material of the course which is not enough to pass the certification exam. There are pre-assessment tests, post- assessment tests, and labs that just contain the content of the videos.
To wrapped it up. Before you consider Mycomputercareer.com, check out jobs as network administrator or server administrator and see the requirements. I will tell you, that you won't get close to the requirements because most of them are bachelor degrees and years of experience. Mycomputercareer.com might be beneficial for professionals who are seeking certifications; otherwise it is a hoax and a waste of money.
A person who wants you to avoid the mistake, many others made including me,
My name is Tony Galati and I am the founder and principal owner of MyComputerCareer. I decided to open MyComputerCareer after working as an IT trainer for major US training companies for over 15 years. Too often, I saw students complete their training, but not get the certifications they were prepared for. Worse, I saw too many that got the education, but never got the job. Others dropped out because the training was too long, inconveniently scheduled, too difficult, or lacking in the kind of one-on-one support they needed to be successful. I knew we could do better.
MyComputerCareer was founded to resolve the barriers of time and money for adult career changers, and provide a rapid pathway to mid and high-level positions in the IT industry. Our track record of growth, but more importantly, students now pursuing successful careers in IT says that we’re succeeding. This year (August 2014) already over 600 lives have been dramatically changed as students have moved from no employment or underemployment into successful, well-paid IT positions with bright prospects for future advancement.
That’s not to say we’re perfect! Be we are striving every day to continually improve our programs and our performance to give every student the best possible education experience, and the best possible shot at a great new life as an Information Technology Professional. If you’d like to see if a career in computers could be right for you, too, why not take our FREE Career Evaluation online at www.mycomputercareer.edu? I’d love to see you on one of our campuses soon!”
Tony, you are the CEO but you leave your company a 1 star review... speaks volumes I see. Please go and read your reviews on every single website. People are not making this stuff up your school is a scam and you know it and it will be exposed I will make sure of it.
MyComputerCareer.com Misleading advertising/did not fulfill contract/total scam Raleigh North Carolina
I just read five reports filed against MyComputerCareer.com, and they read exactly like my experience with this fraudulent "educational institution". I went to the school for their presentationand was herded with others after the show to computer terminals to apply for financial aid, without agreeing to enroll. Once accepted for aid, I met with them again and asked several questions. I wanted to pursue software testing and development since I had experience with it. I was promised that they would indeed touch on this. I wasn't aware that this was the only touching that would be done! I began classes and immediately found the instruction to be sorely lacking, the instructors spending more time outside smoking than with the class, and given "hands-on" labs that included no hands-on instruction whatsoever. We were given lists of instructions and told to follow them on a virtual software, were given no further instruction, did not receive answers to questions or assistance when requested, and soon fell behind. We were told not to worry and just concentrate on memorizing what was needed to pass certification exams. We did not actually learn the things we were memorizing and had absolutely no hands-on training and did not understand what we were doing. The instructors were asked to stop smoking and soon picked up e-cigarettes which they smoked in class while eating and talking amongst themselves.
We were given evaluations to complete and the owner started a "Dear Tony" where we could contact him directly with any complaints. Almost our entire class filed complaints with him and completed bad evaluations. The instructors were then fired mid-way through our course. For several weeks we had a management person from TX stand in our class and teach us totally different information in a totally different format, which put us further behind. We eventually got a new instructor who instituted yet again another different format. He was demeaning, cracked unethical, immoral jokes, and was downright mean to certain students who did not understand anything and constantly asked for help. The owner came to visit our location to asked us what we wanted from our complaints. I was given the option to take some courses over but no extension on graduation or the start of my payments for financial aid. The owner went so far as to threaten that if I dared complain and use his name or the school's that he would sue me for libel. A fellow student was given the option to start classes over since she had not received any certifications and didn't know enough to sit for any of the exams, after asking for her money back and being forgotten. She tried hard but the new instructor also treated her like a pariah and did not help her at all. So she quit and hired an attorney, however, couldn't afford to go through with any action. She had to sell her home, and now works as a daycare assistant.
I myself am unemployed, having flunked several pre-employment tests for the most basic help desk positions paying $8-12/hr when I had made $23/hr in my last administrative position. Since I took over a year off for school and certification tests (of which I passed 5) I cannot even get an administrative position because I am 50ish and the economy is still rock bottom. Kids graduating college with a four-year degree are taking admin positions at half what I was making and younger employees seem to be more desirable rathern than someone with 30 years admin experience. My loans payments for school are due to start next month and I cannot pay them. My husband and I receive assistance from HUD for our mortgage and my children and I receive charity care from a local hospital. We are attempting to sell our home, but again thanks to the economy are finding it impossible to do so.
MyComputerCareer.com has destroyed my life and those of others that attended classes with me. One veteran who wasted his GI bill on the school ended up in psychiatric counseling after this fiasco. This place should be put out of business for preying on veterans and those down on their luck, promising them the world, and not coming through on any of their promises. The lifetime career assistance is a joke with a director who can't even spell or ,write posting jobs that can be found out on Indeed.com and sending numerous students to apply for a single job. She missed appointments with me and was of absolutely no assistance. I am sick over what was done to me and would sue them for everything they have if only I had any money. The owner knows most people don't have the money and he can take advantage all he wants. He is a liar, a mean nasty man, and has no business owning a school that does this to people. "Dear Tony" - you ruined my life!
I just read five reports filed against MyComputerCareer.com, and they read exactly like my experience with this fraudulent "educational institution". I went to the school for their presentationand was herded with others after the show to computer terminals to apply for financial aid, without agreeing to enroll. Once accepted for aid, I met with them again and asked several questions. I wanted to pursue software testing and development since I had experience with it. I was promised that they would indeed touch on this. I wasn't aware that this was the only touching that would be done! I began classes and immediately found the instruction to be sorely lacking, the instructors spending more time outside smoking than with the class, and given "hands-on" labs that included no hands-on instruction whatsoever. We were given lists of instructions and told to follow them on a virtual software, were given no further instruction, did not receive answers to questions or assistance when requested, and soon fell behind. We were told not to worry and just concentrate on memorizing what was needed to pass certification exams. We did not actually learn the things we were memorizing and had absolutely no hands-on training and did not understand what we were doing. The instructors were asked to stop smoking and soon picked up e-cigarettes which they smoked in class while eating and talking amongst themselves.
We were given evaluations to complete and the owner started a "Dear Tony" where we could contact him directly with any complaints. Almost our entire class filed complaints with him and completed bad evaluations. The instructors were then fired mid-way through our course. For several weeks we had a management person from TX stand in our class and teach us totally different information in a totally different format, which put us further behind. We eventually got a new instructor who instituted yet again another different format. He was demeaning, cracked unethical, immoral jokes, and was downright mean to certain students who did not understand anything and constantly asked for help. The owner came to visit our location to asked us what we wanted from our complaints. I was given the option to take some courses over but no extension on graduation or the start of my payments for financial aid. The owner went so far as to threaten that if I dared complain and use his name or the school's that he would sue me for libel. A fellow student was given the option to start classes over since she had not received any certifications and didn't know enough to sit for any of the exams, after asking for her money back and being forgotten. She tried hard but the new instructor also treated her like a pariah and did not help her at all. So she quit and hired an attorney, however, couldn't afford to go through with any action. She had to sell her home, and now works as a daycare assistant.
I myself am unemployed, having flunked several pre-employment tests for the most basic help desk positions paying $8-12/hr when I had made $23/hr in my last administrative position. Since I took over a year off for school and certification tests (of which I passed 5) I cannot even get an administrative position because I am 50ish and the economy is still rock bottom. Kids graduating college with a four-year degree are taking admin positions at half what I was making and younger employees seem to be more desirable rathern than someone with 30 years admin experience. My loans payments for school are due to start next month and I cannot pay them. My husband and I receive assistance from HUD for our mortgage and my children and I receive charity care from a local hospital. We are attempting to sell our home, but again thanks to the economy are finding it impossible to do so.
MyComputerCareer.com has destroyed my life and those of others that attended classes with me. One veteran who wasted his GI bill on the school ended up in psychiatric counseling after this fiasco. This place should be put out of business for preying on veterans and those down on their luck, promising them the world, and not coming through on any of their promises. The lifetime career assistance is a joke with a director who can't even spell or ,write posting jobs that can be found out on Indeed.com and sending numerous students to apply for a single job. She missed appointments with me and was of absolutely no assistance. I am sick over what was done to me and would sue them for everything they have if only I had any money. The owner knows most people don't have the money and he can take advantage all he wants. He is a liar, a mean nasty man, and has no business owning a school that does this to people. "Dear Tony" - you ruined my life!
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MYCOMPUTERCAREER.com IS A SCAM - BAD INSTRUCTORS - HARD SELL- Indianapolis, Indiana
signed up for the "pro" and they go through instructors plus the instructors literally just read from the book.
Nothing hands-on but copying the example from the book- that might have worked but there was no explanations given. Was just told to memorize but honestly I didn't nor did my classmates understand the material. Instructor(s) seemed uninterested. Save your money- the guy that owns this I learned worked for computertraining .com and mycomputercareer.com is in the same building. Search ripoff and the internet for computertraining.com - they closed their doors and lawsuits- now the place is almost reincarnated and in the same building! Save your money or fall prey - I wish I knew this before hand - now I'm holding the bag...just look before you leap with these smooth talkers promising 60k+ out of the shoot. even if I was hired I'd be fired quickly as I wouldn't feel competent after their training
MyComputerCareer.com My computer Career BEWARE. WORSE SCAM THAT WILL GET YOUR DREAMS BROKE. Irving , Texas
As a mature adult, looking for a change in career, I was an easy catch for this so called "MyComputerCareer.com". After a brief interview and explanation of how wonderful this school is, I signed up for their classes that was starting just few days away.
They start by promising a life time career service and 10 computer certifications in 7 months. All great right? Well, to start by saying that it costs near $21k for the worse teaching experience I ever had. There was only 2 teachers ( both smokers who would just disappear for cigarette breaks) and their method of teaching was the following:
- PowerPoint presentations that will last 1 hour of that boring and unprepared teacher reading out load.
- After the first horrifying hour, 3 hours of "hands on" lab; Are you kidding me? What hands on??? First day of class they make you download some pre-made labs ( supposedly step by step) and after that is pretty much good luck and send me your check for $21000 dlls.
- About a 20 % of the time we had issues with the network to do our labs ( A computer school with issues in their network should be a red flag).
- The labs are long and quite hard but it wouldnt be an issue IF the teacher would take all questions and answer; the entire class ( around 20 students) had issues in between the 3-5 lab and ALL of us had to start from the beginning with all the labs (about a 16-18 hrs wasted). The worse part of all this lab nightmare? Nobody had a clue of what we were doing and the "teacher" would ask a question with another question: Haven't you read the chapter?
I want to make sure that anyone going to this school do a very diligent research; I don't ask you to believe a word of what I am saying but don't cry later...because it will be to late. A quick resume of my horrible experience; I attended classes for 1 month; I learned few things ( all on my own ) and after leaving the school I got a bill for $4800 after already had paid $1500. If you ever go and take a look at this place ( I attended the Irving/Dallas Campus), take a look at their job placement ( Remember, they promise a LIFE TIME JOB PLACEMENT) and to your surprise, all of this jobs are paying between $12-15 dollar per hour; I am really sorry, I don't want to be mean, but for $12dlls anyone can go flip burger without having to be in deep debt.
As of today, I am having my lawyer to look over the contract and I will NOT pay another penny. I am also having my lawyer withdraw a letter to Better Business Bureau (BBB) with a former complain.
Total scam school
This school is just like the other reviews state, I dropped out after three months after realizing this school is a fraud and unrealistic to pass due to the pace and the crappy learning material. This school still is charging me 5k for what? I hate this school and will let everyone know about this shady place. I was even blocked on their Facebook page cause I was telling the truth. Oh well...
Do not go here
This school os a joke, I went to the Raleigh NC on-line program and its a joke. I just dropped the program and I have a feeling the will try to make me pay a huge chunk of the money. This school has zero hands on training and they lie to get you in the door. The program is super fast to the point you can not learn any of the information at all, you legit just memorize material to pass a test if that. The program is 23,805 to attend for 10 months of school and you are not even promised your certs that expire in three years, so basically you are wasting so much money on nothing.
A joke so do not go here
This school is such a joke,I enrolled here and dropped after three months and I am sure I am gonna have to pay prob 10k dollars to them for nothing, the school is a lie, and I did not get any certs at all, they throw so much information at an "break your neck speed" I would not recommend this school. I am sure there are success stories but there are tons and tons of horrible reviews where people have been screwed over badly. The material is horrible they teach you with, and you can better material on YouTube or any where online for free and get certified for way less. Stay far away from this school as they feed you nothing but lies and even if you get all your certs they offer you 14-15 per hour jobs.
My computer career Falsifying Information in order to sign you into a contract with no intention of fulfilling obligation columbus Ohio
I am currently attending mycomputercareer in Columbus, Ohio. As in other stories I've read, I was brought in and told classes start in a few days and didn't have much time to think it over. Also in my case I was told that there would be a significant $5,000 price increase in tuition after this enrollment. The labs we are told to do are not user friendly. They have a completion rating and some labs just don't ever reach 100%. The teachers read straight from a power point for ten minutes to an hour and a half and then we're told to do our labs for the day.
When my virtual machine unregistered its key somehow, I asked two seperate instructors what I should do in order to fix it. One told me "I dunno", the other said, "I don't know what to tell you, I don't know what you did." I have called the front desk multiple times when not at the facility and not once have I recieved an answer, nor gotten a return phone call from the voicemails I've left. Many people feel abandoned in about every faccet here.
The amount of learning here is very little. Memorizing questions from our testing software is where you get most of your knowledge. If the labs would work they would be somewhat helpful too. You can purchase a key for a virtual machine online, all the testing engines and resources, and get access to everything they offer minus the instructors that offer literally zero help for under $600 for a years lease on all programs and virtualization tools. There is absolutely no hands on learning. The first day we disassembled and reassembled a desktop PC and that was the only thing I've ever touched aside from my laptop. Which is about a $700 ASUS A8 supplied by the "school".
I went to a "job fair" last week. The lady glanced at my resume and then went into her well recited speech about how in the IT field you need to have experience in a call center. Although I wasn't looking for a position like that and it wasn't exactly related to the field, employers really want you to have call center experience. The commercials Darron the guy who I first talked to when I came in to have my initial meeting said with just a few certifications, I can expect to make between 60 and 100K a year and even more if I really got into it. Also advertising that it would be good for my growing family as it would be a Monday through Friday 9-5 type position. The recruiter who I was set up with through My Computer Careers job fair offered $12 an hour for a job that was Thursday through Monday from 10 A.M.- 7 P.M. The job was taking complaint calls for Big Lots in a call center which has not one bit of IT involved and could have gotten that particular position walking in off the street.
When asked about how to get a better paying job the job placement people say you need experience. You have to work at one of these call centers, or as they so elegantly call them, "introductory level positions". A woman was getting upset last week asking why there is no hands on and why they're setting us up with recruiters for customer service jobs in call centers and they got pissy with her and refused to answer the questions she was asking. Then asked if anyone had any other concerns related to resumes or job fairs. No one said anything and they quickly grabbed their computers and left.
Literally not one thing here has any validity in calling it an education. They get government funding through FAFSA and do not provide said education, and definitely do not offer the results as far as job placement and implementing a career path. The education, the career, and your destiny is all in your hands. Just as it was before you signed up to pay them $20,000 to help you better your life. Not once have I been excited to have been here. Everything I do here I could do more productively at home. I can read a power point on my own, I don't need someone to stand up in front of me and read it for hours taking a fifteen minute break every 45 minutes. Not one thing about this experience has bettered my position. Althouh I'm keeping up with the requirements and have earned a few certifications, I'm still working in a restaraunt at the job I had when I started, making a better wage than what they are offering at the "hiring events".
Mycomputercareer.com My Computer Career My Computer Career.com dallas computer career .com A+ internet school college Irving Texas
I went to mycomputercareer.com a few years ago after hearing an ad on how they help you get a job after and low student loan payments. When i went for the interveiw the promised to find a Job after and lifetime career services....which after 2 years I recieved NONE!!! Also the instuctors are terrible. We had one that couldn't speak english for one of the Advanced courses (they fired him after...but I still didn't get anything from the wasted time and money. Also I couldn't attend the cisco training which is a seperate loan because I had to move and they said they would refund that loan which they haven't. And they changed it to all online for the cisco, then changed it back to both online and classroom. None of it it hands on. So basically you pay $25000 plus 9% interest which is alittle over $500 a month for your A+ which expires in a couple years. I tried contacting them a number of times and got no response. And to the positive posts on this site are from them so don't listen to them they are a RIP OFF!!! Please spend your money on a better school and get a degree.
Why did I use the username, ""A Better Life""? Because that is the key my computercareer.com uses for the wireless access to their network. A network that has a hard time to handle all the network traffic and sometimes it crashes due to a broadcast storm. To avoid an unreliable network, now they use wired access while real institution would fix the problem and let students have more flexibility which is the reason, we like wireless access. Just keep in mind that these people will be teaching you. This is problem number 1.
Let’s move to other problems with mycomputercareer.com. I graduated from this institution a while ago. I can tell you that some students will not receive one certification because they have not the ability to pass any of them. I have seen many students to just receive CompTIA A+, Network+, and the not counting MTAs and some walk off without any certs. The MTA are fairly easy exams, when students do their measure up exams, they will pass MTAs. However, I have not met any students, while I was there, to pass MCTS and MCITP exams, whose include 70-640, 70-642, 70-646, and 70-680. These exams are extremely hard and even instructors and flex instructors are failing them. Instructors, who are teaching the material to students and try to prepare them for the exams,
When you go to their orientation and they go through the spiel, they will tell you that you can make $60,000 and plus yearly as a professional, maybe if you have previous experience in the IT-Field, you might. However, be prepared to receive job offers, starting as little as $8.00 an hour. Most of the companies, my computercareer.com deals with are temporary agencies such as TechSystem, Modis, Kelly Services to name a few. While sitting through orientation, you will ask questions and not sure if the program is for you. They will tell you that you are smart and can do it, counting on your self-esteem. Do you want to be called dumb? Well, I don't. The recruiter, uses any method to lurk you in to believe that the program carrying a sticker of $19,500, will be beneficial for you, but at the end of the program, you can use the completion of the program by either framing it or put it away because it is useless. Well, after you gone through the sales bitch, they will directed you to Financial Director, hoping that you are not defaulted on your student loans, so FAFSA can be accessed and completed. Believe me; they will accept anybody, even drunks who they will kick off the premises afterwards. Just remember:
1st week 75 % of the tuition will be reimbursed
2nd week 50 % will be reimbursed
3rd wekk 25 % will be reimbursed
45th week; students are SOL
Everybody who walks through their door is just a walking dollar sign. The campus director is a very nice person to your face but she is fake like Front desk person, Recruiter, Career Counselor, and of course, the Financial Director. They do and say everything you want to hear by simply lying to you. By the way, mycomputercareer.com increased the tuition by $5,000 almost a year ago because they decided that a tablet and one additional course would justify it.
Let’s talk about the hands-on experience; you should gain from the institution. We worked on Hyper-V technology while the labs were written in Virtual-Box. Most of the labs didn't work and frustrated most of the students. The instructor would read for PowerPoint slide in record time and skipping many of them. He would take a lot of smoke breaks and sometimes disappears for hours or didn't even come back. Our breaks were 3 hours in an 8 hour day. The flex time is a joke. You just sit in a room and do the work you could have done at home but for the Financial Aid purpose, mycomputercareer.com is required to have students on campus for so many hours. AT this time, one of the campuses is on probation for not complying with the financial aid standards. Well, after each course, we had to take our final exam which was a measure up test in study mode. If the wrong answer was given, students could correct them and get an A on their finals. If students would have taken it in certificate mode, many students would have failed the entire program. Yes, it is memorizing the answers. I didn't have to read the questions anymore; I just looked at the answer, selected the right answer one and completed my test with an A. There were only 100-160 questions in the bank; it is easy to remember the answers. Learning material are books copied as .pdf files, software is from DreamSparks that is a Microsoft website for free software that is good for two years, and videos with some instructor talking about the material of the course which is not enough to pass the certification exam. There are pre-assessment tests, post- assessment tests, and labs that just contain the content of the videos.
To wrapped it up. Before you consider Mycomputercareer.com, check out jobs as network administrator or server administrator and see the requirements. I will tell you, that you won't get close to the requirements because most of them are bachelor degrees and years of experience. Mycomputercareer.com might be beneficial for professionals who are seeking certifications; otherwise it is a hoax and a waste of money.
A person who wants you to avoid the mistake, many others made including me,
Abetterlife
My name is Tony Galati and I am the founder and principal owner of MyComputerCareer. I decided to open MyComputerCareer after working as an IT trainer for major US training companies for over 15 years. Too often, I saw students complete their training, but not get the certifications they were prepared for. Worse, I saw too many that got the education, but never got the job. Others dropped out because the training was too long, inconveniently scheduled, too difficult, or lacking in the kind of one-on-one support they needed to be successful. I knew we could do better.
MyComputerCareer was founded to resolve the barriers of time and money for adult career changers, and provide a rapid pathway to mid and high-level positions in the IT industry. Our track record of growth, but more importantly, students now pursuing successful careers in IT says that we’re succeeding. This year (August 2014) already over 600 lives have been dramatically changed as students have moved from no employment or underemployment into successful, well-paid IT positions with bright prospects for future advancement.
That’s not to say we’re perfect! Be we are striving every day to continually improve our programs and our performance to give every student the best possible education experience, and the best possible shot at a great new life as an Information Technology Professional. If you’d like to see if a career in computers could be right for you, too, why not take our FREE Career Evaluation online at www.mycomputercareer.edu? I’d love to see you on one of our campuses soon!”
read the reviews Tony
Tony, you are the CEO but you leave your company a 1 star review... speaks volumes I see. Please go and read your reviews on every single website. People are not making this stuff up your school is a scam and you know it and it will be exposed I will make sure of it.
MyComputerCareer.com Misleading advertising/did not fulfill contract/total scam Raleigh North Carolina
I just read five reports filed against MyComputerCareer.com, and they read exactly like my experience with this fraudulent "educational institution". I went to the school for their presentationand was herded with others after the show to computer terminals to apply for financial aid, without agreeing to enroll. Once accepted for aid, I met with them again and asked several questions. I wanted to pursue software testing and development since I had experience with it. I was promised that they would indeed touch on this. I wasn't aware that this was the only touching that would be done! I began classes and immediately found the instruction to be sorely lacking, the instructors spending more time outside smoking than with the class, and given "hands-on" labs that included no hands-on instruction whatsoever. We were given lists of instructions and told to follow them on a virtual software, were given no further instruction, did not receive answers to questions or assistance when requested, and soon fell behind. We were told not to worry and just concentrate on memorizing what was needed to pass certification exams. We did not actually learn the things we were memorizing and had absolutely no hands-on training and did not understand what we were doing. The instructors were asked to stop smoking and soon picked up e-cigarettes which they smoked in class while eating and talking amongst themselves.
We were given evaluations to complete and the owner started a "Dear Tony" where we could contact him directly with any complaints. Almost our entire class filed complaints with him and completed bad evaluations. The instructors were then fired mid-way through our course. For several weeks we had a management person from TX stand in our class and teach us totally different information in a totally different format, which put us further behind. We eventually got a new instructor who instituted yet again another different format. He was demeaning, cracked unethical, immoral jokes, and was downright mean to certain students who did not understand anything and constantly asked for help. The owner came to visit our location to asked us what we wanted from our complaints. I was given the option to take some courses over but no extension on graduation or the start of my payments for financial aid. The owner went so far as to threaten that if I dared complain and use his name or the school's that he would sue me for libel. A fellow student was given the option to start classes over since she had not received any certifications and didn't know enough to sit for any of the exams, after asking for her money back and being forgotten. She tried hard but the new instructor also treated her like a pariah and did not help her at all. So she quit and hired an attorney, however, couldn't afford to go through with any action. She had to sell her home, and now works as a daycare assistant.
I myself am unemployed, having flunked several pre-employment tests for the most basic help desk positions paying $8-12/hr when I had made $23/hr in my last administrative position. Since I took over a year off for school and certification tests (of which I passed 5) I cannot even get an administrative position because I am 50ish and the economy is still rock bottom. Kids graduating college with a four-year degree are taking admin positions at half what I was making and younger employees seem to be more desirable rathern than someone with 30 years admin experience. My loans payments for school are due to start next month and I cannot pay them. My husband and I receive assistance from HUD for our mortgage and my children and I receive charity care from a local hospital. We are attempting to sell our home, but again thanks to the economy are finding it impossible to do so.
MyComputerCareer.com has destroyed my life and those of others that attended classes with me. One veteran who wasted his GI bill on the school ended up in psychiatric counseling after this fiasco. This place should be put out of business for preying on veterans and those down on their luck, promising them the world, and not coming through on any of their promises. The lifetime career assistance is a joke with a director who can't even spell or ,write posting jobs that can be found out on Indeed.com and sending numerous students to apply for a single job. She missed appointments with me and was of absolutely no assistance. I am sick over what was done to me and would sue them for everything they have if only I had any money. The owner knows most people don't have the money and he can take advantage all he wants. He is a liar, a mean nasty man, and has no business owning a school that does this to people. "Dear Tony" - you ruined my life!
I just read five reports filed against MyComputerCareer.com, and they read exactly like my experience with this fraudulent "educational institution". I went to the school for their presentationand was herded with others after the show to computer terminals to apply for financial aid, without agreeing to enroll. Once accepted for aid, I met with them again and asked several questions. I wanted to pursue software testing and development since I had experience with it. I was promised that they would indeed touch on this. I wasn't aware that this was the only touching that would be done! I began classes and immediately found the instruction to be sorely lacking, the instructors spending more time outside smoking than with the class, and given "hands-on" labs that included no hands-on instruction whatsoever. We were given lists of instructions and told to follow them on a virtual software, were given no further instruction, did not receive answers to questions or assistance when requested, and soon fell behind. We were told not to worry and just concentrate on memorizing what was needed to pass certification exams. We did not actually learn the things we were memorizing and had absolutely no hands-on training and did not understand what we were doing. The instructors were asked to stop smoking and soon picked up e-cigarettes which they smoked in class while eating and talking amongst themselves.
We were given evaluations to complete and the owner started a "Dear Tony" where we could contact him directly with any complaints. Almost our entire class filed complaints with him and completed bad evaluations. The instructors were then fired mid-way through our course. For several weeks we had a management person from TX stand in our class and teach us totally different information in a totally different format, which put us further behind. We eventually got a new instructor who instituted yet again another different format. He was demeaning, cracked unethical, immoral jokes, and was downright mean to certain students who did not understand anything and constantly asked for help. The owner came to visit our location to asked us what we wanted from our complaints. I was given the option to take some courses over but no extension on graduation or the start of my payments for financial aid. The owner went so far as to threaten that if I dared complain and use his name or the school's that he would sue me for libel. A fellow student was given the option to start classes over since she had not received any certifications and didn't know enough to sit for any of the exams, after asking for her money back and being forgotten. She tried hard but the new instructor also treated her like a pariah and did not help her at all. So she quit and hired an attorney, however, couldn't afford to go through with any action. She had to sell her home, and now works as a daycare assistant.
I myself am unemployed, having flunked several pre-employment tests for the most basic help desk positions paying $8-12/hr when I had made $23/hr in my last administrative position. Since I took over a year off for school and certification tests (of which I passed 5) I cannot even get an administrative position because I am 50ish and the economy is still rock bottom. Kids graduating college with a four-year degree are taking admin positions at half what I was making and younger employees seem to be more desirable rathern than someone with 30 years admin experience. My loans payments for school are due to start next month and I cannot pay them. My husband and I receive assistance from HUD for our mortgage and my children and I receive charity care from a local hospital. We are attempting to sell our home, but again thanks to the economy are finding it impossible to do so.
MyComputerCareer.com has destroyed my life and those of others that attended classes with me. One veteran who wasted his GI bill on the school ended up in psychiatric counseling after this fiasco. This place should be put out of business for preying on veterans and those down on their luck, promising them the world, and not coming through on any of their promises. The lifetime career assistance is a joke with a director who can't even spell or ,write posting jobs that can be found out on Indeed.com and sending numerous students to apply for a single job. She missed appointments with me and was of absolutely no assistance. I am sick over what was done to me and would sue them for everything they have if only I had any money. The owner knows most people don't have the money and he can take advantage all he wants. He is a liar, a mean nasty man, and has no business owning a school that does this to people. "Dear Tony" - you ruined my life!