Thanks everyone for all your responses. This helps tremendously. Tomorrow I'm going to my first SQL User Group meeting. Topic involves Power BI. 🙂

I think I'm going to start with SQL Server 2012. I'm not seeing to many books out there yet on the 2014 version. For 2012 I definitely see a lot...

Thanks everyone. This helps me a lot. And your right certs don't guarantee a job. Only experience.