Please Advice Me On This One:

fellow Nl i need your advice, i am a fresh biochem graduate, awaiting, nysc, and i am thinking of doing a professional course, so i dont just wait at home,
after a little research, i concluded with doing something alittle otherwise my course of study, and i stumbled into oracle, which has to do with IT

please educate me more on oracle, 10, have heard all stuffs about it, yea, its about data base managment, handling of data and stuffs, but how is it like when it comes to searching for a job,
is oracle that lucrative,
please i need your candid advice on this one,
some months back, or lets me say a year, it was oracle 9g, or so, now its 10g and its keep advancing, cos of technological improvement, but once completed, does the labour market truly recognizes it, ??

would love to hear from those who have completed thiers, both the employed and umemployed,
thinking of starting by next week, at aptech, they said, 175,000

Just saw this post now.
If u have not already started,take your money and go and learn about networking first since
you do not have any IT background.Then u can choose what field to go into.
Oracle ? It's better you don't go in for the money cos u won't  like it if u don't like it already.