<p>Your experience will tell you that time will go by fast. He was 18 and is now 23 without significant skills. I don’t know him, but you have to many options, try listening to 5 and make a decision. Here, You need a long term plan that you can chop into small milestones. This way after 5 years he won’t be in the same situation because he failed to plan early. If he likes biology and computers, I suggest he gets involved in independent study, learn database computing and SQL (the program language). He will have a skill set, if he is as smart as you say he will find new important discoveries manipulating data, he can study on weekends and evenings. He can enroll in the many brick and mortar programs at private microsoft computer training companies (tip: tuition is negotiable up to 50% because that will be the rate paid by corporations or government), or adult continuing education classes at colleges, or online self study which would be the most likely to fail process. </p>
<p>Job training funds are often available at the unemployment office. 12 months he’ll be employable or can do contract work, 5 years he’ll have an expertise.</p>
<p>I strongly recommend, if you go this route, to link up beforehand with your local sql server group (association) like</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sqlpass.org/”>PASS Data Community Summit; there are local and virtual chapters.</p>
<p>find a mentor there , or someone at least willing to speak with you about your son his goal. Maybe he can get an associate membership eventually.</p>
<p>The end goal is that he will have an accomplished skill set in demand by employers, and be proud of it. Additionally, if he is brilliant, he will be able to conduct independent data analysis and research, perhaps even publish as a secondary venture. He’ll never run out of ways to be creative or get bored.</p>
<p>resources:</p>
<p><a href=“Archived MSDN and TechNet Blogs | Microsoft Learn”>Archived MSDN and TechNet Blogs | Microsoft Learn;
<a href=“MS Access Series | Database Journal”>http://www.databasejournal.com/features/article.php/3593436/MS-Access-Series.htm</a>
<a href=“http://www.codecademy.com/”>http://www.codecademy.com/</a></p>
<p>Also, have him start a company soon after his training so he will reduce his employment gap, be able to solicit contract work and have something to put on his resume. If you get funding from job training programs, start the company afterward so as not to be disqualified.</p>