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Of all the electronics-related jobs, this is very boring...
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eti:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 05, 2021, 09:50:10 am ---I spent about 5 years diagnosing and repairing TVs, not dull at all.

You see most of the YouTubers (like Rossmann) that do this focus on the interesting repairs rather than cracked-screen-#7 of the day.

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I am a fully qualified ex tv & vcr engineer too. It was more fun in the 90s - TVs now are just dull.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---I do not mean to diminish their role
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And yet you took a couple of paragraphs to do exactly that. Indeed, it wouldn't be far off to note that the entire thread was started to say that.

I think the job is what you make of it. Repairing cars might be much more unpleasant as a job and just as tedious, and yet we think quite highly of mechanics.

As it happens, I've done quite a few diverse jobs and one I quite enjoyed was packing shelves at the supermarket. Seems simple enough: just slap these boxes on there, bosh. But there is rather more to it than that with nuances that may not be obvious to the uninitiated. There is a skill to it, and when things go right it's easy to get into a zone and be done almost before you know you've started. It can be brainless work, but it can also be immensely satisfying work.

But what customer actually realises the steps that see this particular box of whatever arrive right there in front of them? (I suspect that this year quite a few more will have a bit more knowledge of supply chains!)
fourfathom:

--- Quote from: fourfathom on December 05, 2021, 01:48:54 am ---I call them technicians.  It's what I used to do.  Not as boring when you get to fix a wide variety of gear, and if you pay attention you can learn a bit.  After a few years I worked my way into engineering jobs (much less boring).
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Not meaning to diminish tech, repair, etc.  Not at all.  And now that I think about it, it wasn't boring, at least no more boring than any other job can be.  At that stage in my career, what I was doing as a tech was actually pretty fascinating, and as I mentioned, I learned a lot.  I've always found that virtually any job can be boring or it can be interesting -- it all depends on how you approach it.  But with some jobs it was easier for me to find the interesting aspects.  For me, design engineering is one of those jobs.
SmallCog:
It probably is quite boring at times but if it's similar there to here, these repairers are often in the middle of shopping malls.  Repairing items whilst people watch them and dealing with the customer before and after the repair adds a dimension to the work day that some people don't have in a lab or back room environment (for better or worse)

In a previous life in the drilling industry I sometimes had to help with more mundane tasks. When you're opening up sack after sack of cement and dumping it into a hopper you find ways to amuse yourself. I used to see how neatly I could roll the empty sacks up and how many of these rolled up sacks I could fit into an empty sack until it split.
SiliconWizard:
Yeah it's all so subjective anyway.

These days, if you work as an EE in a big organization, chances are the "fun" and interesting design part of your work is about 10% (if that), the rest being paperwork and meetings. Is that less boring than repairing stuff? Your call. It just pays better. (Usually.)

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