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I did on $300/wk salary for the first 60 days! Killer with 6 kids!renegade wrote: Will you support a family off a starting out tech repair job? Probably not but once your foot is in the door and you gain experiece and move up to bigger and better you sure can.
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Thats the best reason right there.Wingless92 wrote: Whatever you do. Make sure its something that you enjoy. That is by far the most important thing to consider.
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L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote: When I take resumes at work, we look for experience that is just as simple as "Are you the goto computer guy for your friends and family?" "Did you build your own rig?" You would be suprised that many people say no to these questions. I just pitch those resumes in the trash! They dont even make it to my boss who does the hiring.
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Wingless92 wrote: You could always fall back on stripping! That's what I did, until I didn't make any money cause no one wants to see a fat, bald bloke dancing around naked.
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Davey_Boy wrote:
L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote: When I take resumes at work, we look for experience that is just as simple as "Are you the goto computer guy for your friends and family?" "Did you build your own rig?" You would be suprised that many people say no to these questions. I just pitch those resumes in the trash! They dont even make it to my boss who does the hiring.
This is the kinda thing I want my parents to see. They just don't understand that in the computer field experience means ALOT! They seem to think that it's all about your paperwork. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying the paperwork isn't important too but they don't realize that experience means more.
Thanks for the input guys keep em coming I'm learning alot
And yes I really enjoy working on computers. My church and family/friends come to me ALOT for computer related issues and I always enjoy helping out
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drpain wrote: Yeah I'd still go to school if you can, especially in this day since most of the people probably going are going back to further their education and have probably been in the business longer then the person teaching which helps on your networking and if things go right they might offer you a job. Had a bunch of classes with people from the Bio-Med companies just furthering their knowledge since technology changes so fast.
Also like some others have said find the niche that makes you stand out. The IT sector is getting saturated and if you don't have the experience good luck in the interview. I went from a jack of trades to basically Mac Support for the longest time since more and more Mac's are showing up at schools and businesses and most "Windows" people just scoff at them and say they don't offer support.
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I didn't mean this to come across as NO education is alright. Some is good. And depending on the position you are applying for, too much is too much. Many local repair shops (at least mine) don't like to hire someone with tons of schooling and certs because of 2 reasons.L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote: When I take resumes at work, we look for experience that is just as simple as "Are you the goto computer guy for your friends and family?" "Did you build your own rig?" You would be surprised that many people say no to these questions. I just pitch those resumes in the trash! They don't even make it to my boss who does the hiring.
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L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote:
Customer service and sales experience don't hurt either when it comes to working at a shop. You need to be able to communicate with customers, most of whom have no idea the difference between RAM and HDD. You could tell them that they need a new computer because their Flux Capacitor is broken, and they will more than likely believe you.
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THUMPer wrote: I work from home as a software tech. cake.
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renegade wrote: You will make alot more doing pc repair in the corporate world then working for a small shop, or geek squad (please dont go there). Unless you own the small shop the wage is going to be ok but not great an cap out pretty fast.
Corporate repair will cap out in the 16-20.00 an hour range usually depends on the area, company etc, but hopefully in a corporate position you would have advancement paths to go into networkings, security, management etc to extend that cap.
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Arxon wrote: If you are looking to get your CCNA... Expect HELL. CCNA is the hardest cert I have had the experience of working towards.
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