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I needed to order printed circuit board and a few semiconductors along with
plugs and other bits and pieces. So I picked up the new Electus catalogue to
find the part numbers. Nothing, all gone, no entries! Looks like they're
getting out of that market, probably too hard and too little profit - can't
blame them I suppose. At least there's still RS, Element 14 and a few others
for those that require components.
This got me thinking about how the industry has changed, for better or
worse depending from which angle you look at it.
When I started in 1958 there was lots of opportunity. I qualified as a Radio
Tech (that type of tech was expected to repair anything that had more that
two wires in it!!) as that was the closest thing to an Electronics Tech, the
later only became a qualification in its own right some time later.
A question - does one still come across youngsters who are interested in
electronics, hoping to make a career out of it?
Not persons all can be university material and go on to become designers,
there wouldn't be enough positions for them anyway.... what will be the
electronic 'trades persons' of the future, will they become qualified board
changers or just high tech delivery people changing over technical goods for
customers when they regularly go faulty (due to inferior components
manufactured in dodgy places)?
I would be interested to see comments and views be they good, bad, humerous,
nasty, interesting or whatever as to what the future of the electronics
service industry will be.
plugs and other bits and pieces. So I picked up the new Electus catalogue to
find the part numbers. Nothing, all gone, no entries! Looks like they're
getting out of that market, probably too hard and too little profit - can't
blame them I suppose. At least there's still RS, Element 14 and a few others
for those that require components.
This got me thinking about how the industry has changed, for better or
worse depending from which angle you look at it.
When I started in 1958 there was lots of opportunity. I qualified as a Radio
Tech (that type of tech was expected to repair anything that had more that
two wires in it!!) as that was the closest thing to an Electronics Tech, the
later only became a qualification in its own right some time later.
A question - does one still come across youngsters who are interested in
electronics, hoping to make a career out of it?
Not persons all can be university material and go on to become designers,
there wouldn't be enough positions for them anyway.... what will be the
electronic 'trades persons' of the future, will they become qualified board
changers or just high tech delivery people changing over technical goods for
customers when they regularly go faulty (due to inferior components
manufactured in dodgy places)?
I would be interested to see comments and views be they good, bad, humerous,
nasty, interesting or whatever as to what the future of the electronics
service industry will be.