i did software engineering for 2 years than quit after realizing for me it was boring i didnt like the abstractions of programming ...... i loved hardware more so im thinking of just starting things slow with a certificate get employed with work experience then move up from there... so excited to do circuitry work.... probably dosent pay as much software engineer but i love it
Thanks for sharing this video. Worth watching every second, great content for people like me that just about start to dive into the electronics field. Done subscribe :)
Thanks for the information I've always had a knack and curiosity for taking apart electronics since I was a kid just following tutorials how to fix my consoles and what not.. but I wanna start legit now because this seems like a career that would be fulfilling I just don't know where to start or how to get an associates degree..
You don’t need a formal education. It’s a waste of time and money, trust me! If you’re motivated and disciplined, self learn on the internet. It’s MUCH faster.
Not at all a dying field. I think what you may have heard is that low end consumer electronics are no longer repaired. They are so cheap to produce, when they fail you simply replace them. You will find most electronics technicians nowadays, who do circuit/ component level debug are working on high end industrial electronics equipment, worth thousands of dollars. Hence still cost effective to repair. There are about 130,000 electronics technicians in the U.S. That does not include ETs in military services, a lot of whom are stationed abroad. In this line of work the pay is fairly decent. You can earn a middle class salary after a few years of experience. Most of all it is fun, for those who like tinkering with circuits etc..
Do you have the skills to fix things like fans, laptop mother boards, stovetops, etc? like every day household items. I am interested in learning how to fix stuff around my own house
I'll tell you something about electronic technicians engineering technicians I have been a technician for a long time and I work for contractors these big companies like journal Dynamics Harris Lockheed all of them are low-balling technicians and trying to get them to work for like 20 $25 an hour if you look at the technician should be making they should be making $64,000 a year which comes out to about 33 $34 an hour all these companies are lowballing any technician that doesn't know what he's worth should not be working for $25 an hour it should be working for the max that's what you want to school for that's what you should be making these technicians are making for working for 25 or $26 are killing this career kids are not going to college anymore to become electronic techs. These companies have got to start paying at least 30 or 35 an hour for electronic text or this this career field is done. ELECTRONIC TECHS DONT WORK FOR 25 AN HR YOU KILLING OTHER TECHS AND THE CAREER FIELD
Im a young adult and want a real job. I work for fast food but I want a real job and this is the one i’m really only good at which is with computers and all that stuff
Minimally get a dba and create a business repairing computers and electronics. I would suggest getting a electronics certificate otherwise and applying for a job somewhere repairing electronics. It will take time for you to make decent money.
They give excellent training, but the are board swappers. They don’t replace components. However nothing for appliance repair or cellphone related from them.
One year left to graduate and I feel like I can't do almost anything professionally, I'm just 18 and still have to go to college but I'm still worried.
Rest assured man. I am 36 and just really starting out too. College/school doesn't prepare you for the troubleshooting like the author said. Work is where you can gain those skills... I am just stuck between being a graduate and being employed.
Hey, I went into the Navy for aviation electronics technician MOS and spent only a year there due to disability. I still enjoy electronics and received an associate degree in electronics in 2021. I only have 9 months assembler experience, and did a little slot technician work. So far, I don't know how to break into the field I guess, I live southern MN and there is a dearth of jobs. So currently, like you said not to grow stagnant, I'm taking Penn Fosters electronics online... I dunno what else to do because my location is sort of the problem. What would you recommend? Take any and every chance to solder? I am also looking toward an CETa and J soldering cert to have a more well-rounded experience. I just need experience. I was told that assembler != electronics technician... so I am worried my experience is null. Otherwise, thank you for the video! Good content and thanks for your duty to electronics man appreciate it.
On your resume you'll need a skills portion. In that portion embellish a lot. You have to ignore the 50 years experience in what you apply for. You'll be trained in whatever process, just have the basic et knowledge to talk up at interviews. Tech work is heavily outsourced to h1b, so don't think in terms of "entry-level".
Most up to the twin cities or get into controls/signaling. All of the electronics labs and manufacturers are up in the twin cities. If you get into controls you can work in most industrial environments running their low voltage and programming PLCs
Thanks for the video, have you ever seen someone work as an electronics technician while wearing a respirator because his lungs react badly or you can say has an allergy to the solder and flux? Please advise Thanks a lot
Fumes from soldering are just annoying if the vapor gets up your nose. Some guys set up a 12v tower pc chassis fan just to blow it away. The worst part I experienced in Electronics was BLOWING out a TV cabinet that was full of dust.
Hey man, looking for a new career to provide for my family. With cars getting "smart", would vehicle electronics techs be in demand in the coming years? Or is that even a thing?
If providing for a family is something you wish to accomplish in the first world, an EET degree is not something I would suggest. Most electronic technician jobs pay around $17/hr, which is pathetic compared to most skilled trades and definitely not worth the hard work it takes to get the degree.
@@Akwardturtle The certifications that they offer look strongly basic. It’s the kind of stuff one would learn in the first semester of an EET course. If someone has an Associates degree in EET, they’re well beyond any of that.
@@CyborgForgael see you just told me something new. So realistically without any other experience what could one expect to do for pay with those certs? It gives IPC 610, 620 and space along with solder and all the basic electrical classes (Direct, Alternating, analog, digital logic, & industrial) I even got an Associate Certified Technician cert, no idea what I can do with it yet.
I am a electronics mechanic for about 6 yrs now. I will interviewing for electronics technicians. Not sure what topic brush in to be ready for, any advice?
There is no age restriction or requirement per se. It is understood that it is ideal for a new candidate to be younger. I mean it would not be advisable for a middle aged person to try to jump into electronics. Most of the older guys in this field started young, and made it a lifelong career. Honestly, I would not advise anyone to get into this field. You have to be smarter than average, with a lot of patience to do this job. Yet, they pay and benefits does not match. Most technicians don't earn over $25 and hour. A lot of unskilled jobs pay as much as tech jobs! Not worth the headache.
i am thinking to study electronic technician or something similar , I live in Los Angeles, do you know any good technical schools that you would recommend? Is Devry Institute or ITT any good? Also, I like to work in a field that has less pressures and not fast paces which feilds would you recommend? Thank you.
Decry is a great school and same with itt, but devry would be my choice if you are aiming for a bachelors. If you just want a associate, any college. Colleges won’t teach your troubleshooting f, that’s a skill you obtained while working. All jobs have stress, that’s not avoidable. The least stressful job I’ve had is doing biomedical work.
According to the BLS Salaries are just over 67000 but I'm seeing no companies paying anywhere near that. When are companies going to pay techs for the job they are doing !!!!!
This is a very broad question. There are so many different reasons. From consumer to functionality. We can take a dive before they used circuit boards with traces, and talk about point to point connections. Old fm/am radios and TVs would be a easy subjects to look up about point to point, similar to wire wrapping with a rats nest of wires everywhere, you had a board less circuit of components spread out under the chasis. A nightmare to repair. Then they were to terminal connection, where metal posts were embedded into a fiber substrate board where the components leads were wrapped around it and soldered in place, again, replacing wasn’t the easiest but it was easier than the point to point connection. 50’s and 60’d came about of perf boards and strip boards, where copper were plated onto the circuit board, making it easier to solder components and easy for hobbyists to make their own design. Most of the heave current components still relied on wires to transfer the current or voltage to the next circuit as traces then were not design to handle such items like mosfets and bridges. In todays world, traces are designed not only to handle the current but to also control the speed of information being sent. Thermal designs also play a factor in why circuits are laid out how they are, some components run hot and need airflow. Then you have the world wanting things compact, so components are made smaller than they were 30 years ago, going from linear voltages to high speed switches generating the voltages. There’s also conforming to jedec standards. Now as far as design specs of hot and cold side of boards, it’s more of a noise and separation of high voltage and low voltages. In the old days people looked at the schematic as a layout and designed it in a block diagram, meaning how it was on the echaría is how they literally placed the components. Now they can move however they want due to better designs of the pcb process. They used to have to draw or tape out the circuits, expose it, etch it, by hand. Now everything is computerized, even the milling of holes.
I’m a Heavy Equipment Technician currently working mostly on the electrical and would like to go into Autonomous Systems will Electronics Engineering be a good option for me?
Choose a specialty that will be around 10-20 years from now. Airport radar and airplane techs, Biomedical electronics, marine nav GPS radio. In a marina or aboard any freight or cruise ship.
Hello man, I am almost done with my associates degree with electronic engineering I kinda almost forgot everything I was taught is that normal ? It online tho and my dream work is to work with a company where I get to play with new tech and troubleshooting can u point me to the right direction
Troubleshooting is a learned skill, you’ll get that in time. Typically you work with the old to learn mistakes in the past so the new can evolve into something better. As long as you know how to follow logic, highs and lows, know how to look up the parts to see their functionality, and a basics of ohms law, you’ll be fine. In todays world, nobody is troubleshooting to component level unless they are doing quality control for a board vendor. Your are just swapping boards out anymore. Soldering is a lost art, learn it and it’ll be your most valuable asset.
Unfortunately there are a lot of electronic technicians who aren't good at troubleshooting. In a typical maintenance pool a handful are "go to" guys who can figure out problems.
Looking up look it up in the bureau of labor standards what tech should be making and see what the company's paying you I bet you it's not going to be 64,000 a year which comes out to pretty much $32 an hour companies are not going to pay you $32 an hour if your electronic teck so forget about it either you unionize and get the $32 an hour or i don't bother to go to school it's not worth it cuz you're not going to get to 32 dollars an hour and not paying according to the bureau of labor standards
What about if you are bad at math? Seems like all of the electronics engineering technician courses throw a lot of advanced math at you (beyond ohm's law). Do you really use any of that math outside of school?
The math is good for rethinking how things work and the energy/power involved. Being good with numbers is not a prerequisite for being a good technician. The biggest thing that I learned is that people look at it as a solid object. In the digital age of software coding, that may be somewhat true. Inside the equipment though it's sweeps and curves, timing and regulation. Every analogy and digital signal or data is a voltage riding on a reference. Even if the baseline is 0 volts - ground. You may not be the designer but you do need to consider his intent. Input conversion output. Always separate out a schematic into blocks. Voltages, frequency, time base, sync, signal riding on a DC voltage, peak to peak, RMS voltage, analog Simpson meters are used a lot in analog, RF keying and other circumstances where a digital meter won't show spikes or changes. The display will just keep changing the numbers. This. . Is what the math is for. Analysis of the conversion and whether or not it's sutable to go on to the next circuit.
@@CyborgForgael I did some research, AND apparently, they get average salary for an Electrical Engineering Technologist IN my AREA, is around 67,000-96,000K a year :p
@@reversedr3dst0ne3 United States. If you were to perform an Indeed search for "Electronics Technician", that might give you an idea of what a person can do with an Electronics Engineering Technology degree, and what kind of pay you could look forward to.
@@reversedr3dst0ne3 In this case Google is not your friend and I will explain why. When you do online search queries for average income of technicians, you are getting highly skewed data. Reason being, it is only the highest paid technicians that usually share their salaries with the public. So, you mostly see the salaries of techs with 10, 20 and 30 years of experience. Moreover, who have worked their way into a neiche job, doing highly specialized tech work. Such guys typically work under engineers, and do most of their undesireable work, like circuit debug. Even the the offices of labor statistics don't report technician salaries accurately. As someone who has been a technician most of my career, I know the average real wage is like $18 to $23 and hour. That is really what most techs are making. We have always been underpaid relative to our skill set. Most technicians are smarter than average, yet we are paid like cashiers in supermarkets. Why is why I don't advise young people to get into this field.
Are there any hardware jobs that pay half as well as software without a degree? I’m making $170k as a software developer but I want to get into hardware. I don’t like the idea of taking an 80% pay cut though. I don’t have a degree.
Have you seen women in this field? I tried to be a electrician and the pandemic slowed down my local union. I saw on Reddit women talking about this career and I’m very interested.
Worked with one for 3 years, she had been there 15 years prior. Women are common in the electronics field due to their neatness and usually lower wage.
Can you link me to those reddit threads? Im on path to be an electrician rn. Finishing up my first year and i think i want to pull out and be an electrical technician instead. I dont think the construction environment is for me, not to mention i can barely find anyone to take me om to get my on the job apprenticeship hours.
I can tell you from experience, most people would be better off going for a different skilled trade, especially if they'd have been smart enough to pull off a degree in Electronics Technology to begin with. The pay in the field is miserably low, about $17/hr in this area, which is substantially less than most other skilled trades, and not worth the hard work it takes to get this degree. The students that do the best with EET degrees tend to pivot to something else, such as Industrial Electricians, which isn't as hard and much of the theory carries over. It's bass ackwards. The degree is really hard to earn and the work is something that would go way over most people heads, but the pay just isn't there. If you're smart, find some other way to prove it.
It’s a diverse degree. Lots of random repair man jobs for commercial and industrial equipment ask for a 2yr electronic tech degree or a 2yr electromechanical degree. Industrial electricians as you mentioned, other job titles to search for like PLC tech, automation tech, facilities maintenance, industrial mechanic, gas station pump tech, maintenance mechanic, commercial appliance repair, residential and commercial electrician (often if looking for apprentices, they’ll respect the 2 year degree over someone completely green without it).
Hello, I have a very specific question, if I'm on my first of three years of electronics on a vocational highschool and when I graduate I recieve a title as a technician, should I study electronics engineering or something like electrical as a complement?
Electric technician pulls wire install panels, replacement circuit breaker, etc. You would get bored. Find a position where you can troubleshoot to component level.
People working in manufacturing should need the unionize you are being taken advantage of by companies making 15 to $20 an hour for tax is ridiculous two years in college with some of the hardest subjects there is in college with the math the circuit theory it's not worth to go to schools and get paid 20 bucks an hour and if you think you can find a chapter 30 and you can and some of the bigger companies like Grumman Lockheed Raytheon but those jobs are far and few between very hard to get in unless you know somebody there it's just not worth to go to school for 20 bucks an hour you can work it probably a job at the convenience store and make 15 so might bother
Look ....sir i mean no disrespect an ET can go into all areas of business...no need to focus on what you are promoting....for example I have been an ET and then did a time in the semiconductor .....I did not score a better test score than you....but rest assured.....
He doesn't know a thing how badly paid techs are if you you can find a position that even pays $30 an hour you're going to be damn lucky. Why go to school take all that calculus and physics circuit theory which can be difficult at times and end up making 20 bucks an hour coming out of college it's not worth it and four or five years if that's what they're going to keep paying there won't be any more electronic techs. They will be throwing up boys away if they're paying 20 bucks an hour cuz we don't want to do it anymore either you're going to have to unionize and start paying tax with their Worth or it's not worth it to go to school.
Took me 18 years in the field to make $24 a hour. Right out of college I made $7 a hour. It’s a dying field, lots of community colleges local to me are not even teaching it in a aas level, only certificates.
@@electronicscareerquestions I took a 2 year industrial electronics at my local vo tech. Also took HVAC (didn't complete that one..my son was born). Work for the Post Office. Currently making 38 and change as an electronic technician. Most of the work is mechanical though. Amazon pays well, also.
based on the interest....my advice would be to enjoy life get laid as much as possible....after that I would suggest common sense....many ET's don't have that as they are scored on paper....a good ET knows how to do their job and make it easy....I have troubles when the new corporate employers want to know what you did to fix the problem....what part number your used to fix it and how you used it.....on top of that they as how long it took etc...NO....my job is to prevent problems not react to them....that's an ET.
I can respect that opinion, the whole promotion of routes, based on my experience is to help others get into the field. Electronic repair has gone a lot to the way side here in USA atleast. I barely made it through high school, so not pretending to be anything smarter either. The older techs pretty much have the same views as you do, enjoy life, I’m getting to that point that I can financially.
I don't know what this guy is talking about that I've been electronics tech for 40 years been laid off at least six seven eight times make made very little money the top one I ever made with I think was $24 an hour I'm a good Tech I worked places as long as 7 years and 12 years got laid off find another job I don't know if this guy's talking about there is no career routes as a tech there's actually no career for an engineer anymore unless you end up being a subcontractor working for Kelly engineering or something but this field in manufacturing is dead especially in the United States because our jobs are going to India and China I don't know what this guy's talking about the medical field
It's very hard to break into the medical field it's very specialized and I don't need that many texts each hospital may have maybe at the max maybe two texts because a lot of the bigger stuff like the X-ray machines are farmed out to people that own the X-ray machines and that are X-ray electronic texts so medical field is really dead.
I applied for one biomedical job, got it without any struggle. Listen to the video, there are route to go, but very limited. Pay sucks in electronics world. Took me 18 years to get $24 myself. There are little jobs in America anymore. Biomed jobs are everywhere
