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Apprentaship (sp)
Dr Pirate
Posts: 8,303 Legendary Poster
in Work & Study
I want to gain an apprentaship (sp) in computer repair or maintainance. I'm currently doing a Computer maintainance course at college and I'm finding it extreamly easy.
Thing is, I don't feel that the hour and a half a week I get working on the inside of a computer is enough and I really want to get into the industry.
Could anyone recommed anywhere I should ask?
Thanks;
Dr Pirate.
Thing is, I don't feel that the hour and a half a week I get working on the inside of a computer is enough and I really want to get into the industry.
Could anyone recommed anywhere I should ask?
Thanks;
Dr Pirate.
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Is there a local computer shop that you could get a p/t job at?
I think that wonga is quite nice :thumb:
"I charge £60 an hour, I dont give quotes, its done when its done."
But I don't think that being only 17 is a problem for getting experience though - as long as you can show that your mature and know what your talking about then you should be ok
Go to various charities in your area and volunteer to look after their PC's - I know loads of guys that do this and it often leads to full time work or great recommendations
You can also put an ad in the local paper, I used to do that years ago, it costed £25 a week to put the ad in for computer services and on average I'd charge £25 an hour and maybe get 1 or 2 calls from it, .. not anywhere enough to live on but good experience and enough to pay for the ad.
Also try the Friday Free Ad's paper and loot
Also ads in shop windows cost about 50p a week and maybe if the shop keeper has a PC for you to fix it will be free in exchange for your services. If you need experience fixing PC's spend a day at your local dump yard and wait for people to drive up with Pentium 1 PC's they're about to chuck out and nabb them - they'll happily give them to you - we did a recent clear out and chucked away PC's, TV's etc if you want to learn to repair stuff it's a good place to gain experience.
A monitor has about a 1kg of lead in it for example.
be careful with this one...i dont know if they do too many apprentiships in this and tbh the industry itself isnt the best one to get yourself into IMO...
i considered doing this when i left college (i was thinking about this back in 98/99) BUT by the time i left school in 2001 things didnt look as rosy...
back in 98/99 PC repair was specialised knowledge, and you could make a pretty penny from it...but as the amount of people who know how to build their own systems goes up so the benefit of such knowledge goes down...
that being said it could be a spring board into other things such as systems analysis and the like...of course if you enjoy it there will always be a market for people who cant be bothered or dont know how to sort certain problems...its not as if Windows is ever going to be faultless is it :rolleyes:
shoot over to Connexions Government Career advice for help finding placements
good luck:thumb:
mind doing another one something that is hands on
are their some apprenticships that you have to be employed in to do it.
visit Conexxions