1) Take a class from Mike Murphy at Foothill College in Los Altos
https://foothill.edu/schedule/outlines.php?act=1&rec_id=13972&Quarter=2017S

Take the class and ask about Internship possibilities
He told me about a program where I got an internship co-op at Synopsys for 18Mos. at there helpdesk

2) Network with other people
http://csix.org/ (meets Thursday Morning) and http://menlo.church/events/career-actions-meeting/ (Meets 2 Saturday mornings a month)

3) IT Knowledge through the twit.tv website, also able to find on youtube
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

You can download audio version or watch the video

4) Study for Comptia A+ certificate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlzwMKcCoMI&list=PLG49S3nxzAnmlC1ZsppuM7yleDuYCMHrv

Professor Messer also has videos on other IT Subjects

5) Learn Python
http://py4e.com/ click on the Materials link to access his youtube videos

6) Get an AS in Computer Science
Any junior college should offer this

7) One person that I worked with got started in IT by working for Frys Electronics. There management sucks (according to 2 people that I know that have worked there) but if you can deal with it, you can probably work into fixing computers, He mentioned they paid for his comptia a+ certificate.