I was once a tv engineer but over the years as rental declined i found I had to adapt to other types of electronics to survive
automotive test equipment, warehouse control systems,computers and now industrial electronics
How many other trades have to keep changing to survive
looking back I should have been an electrician as they seem to be in a better position work wise nowadays but in my day electronics was the best trade to get into.
What are you doing now?
Do you still repair tv's
Do you think your knowledge and expertise has gone to waste.
How much junk from the old days do you still keep to your wifes annoyance?
I have even found skilled techs driving fork trucks for a living as it pays better money now than repairing electronics.
2006-10-11 21:14:35 · 21 answers · asked by steve50 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
Hi Rusty, your post touched a chord with me , from your term " engineer " I take it that you are in the UK ! I started out in the UK about 1952 as a TV engineer !! I worked for DER mainly for 10 years then was recruited by a TV service org in New Zealand in 1970 and I became a TV technician, same job but sounded posher and paid better ! 10 years later we moved to Australia , was still a TV tech but had my own business , work continued to be brisk throughout 70tys and the 80 tys and I retired in 1992 officially but continued TV and VCR repairs right up to 2005 but just for rellys and friends so much for retiring and I still feel like a TV tech ! I have hung on to some equipment and parts which my wife calls junk but I am unable to part with !!!I do think that my vast store of knowledge is by and large wasted but with the advent of Yahoo Answers I am able to pass some of the knowledge on and so far I have 72 best answers , what it means I don`t know but I know that I am still contributing after all these years !! Cheers Pete
2006-10-11 23:57:22 · answer #1 · answered by Realist 2006 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is true that the old trades are dying out. my father did the same. but he read between the lines and became an electrician. mind you now he is a builder, corgi registered plumbing and heating engineer, roofer, plasterer, painter and decorator, and ground worker, and a mechanical engineer.
keeping your options open is always the best thing. He changed his job for where the money was and now has every skill and qualification you can imagine, because he needed to put food on the table.
But now he has used it to his advantage and is the guy that manages these building sites where all these types of tradesmen work. And because he has been there...done that...got the T-shirt. He knows when they arent doing the job properly.
So people like me dad are helping to make sure that the facilities being built are safe for you and me.
The other big problem today is the IT generation have become so lazy. that its easier to get an office job that requires as much skill as eating chips, rather than earn and honest days hard graft.
My boyfriend is an engineer and i couldnt be prouder of him. Only problem is... the companies dont pay like they used to. and they should because skilled labourers are much harder to come by now, and are in more demand than ever!
xx
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2016-02-16 08:18:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
T/V Engineer was at one time a prtisashjob when i first worked as one in 1953, when i first began. fortunately i managed to work in a declining industry till i retired. I have skilled colleagues who are out of work, looking for any form of work(not related to electronics) but being over the age of 55 are finding it very hard. however i realize all skilled trades are changing, and one cannot exspetpt to follow any calling all your working life those days are long gone. Thinking about it i think looking back that training to be a plumber would be a far better thing to do defiantly finactionly wise.
2006-10-12 01:24:43 · answer #4 · answered by kevin B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seems like not so long ago, you had those tube-techs, who could fix your big tube TV. That required all the knowledge of how to do it without the capacitor punching a hole in your life-line. Now, got an audio problem?... must be the audio board. Got too many bad pixels?... replace the display.
Even though many average users have no idea where to start, parts are cheap. labor is getting cheap. When techs charge for repairs at replacement prices, someting will go down.
2006-10-11 21:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by Frankie P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most have moved onto home installations.
As tv audio equipment becomes more and more complex such and HD, massive wide screens, pro-logic sorround, etc there is more and more need for proffesional installation.
The days with many of these products of plugging in and 2 minutes later your finished is long gone, have you felt the weight of some of these huge t.v.'s?
The engineers are perfect for this job with the technical background to solve small problems there and then, and an insight how the mass of spaghetti cables actually transfers the signal rather than just what fits in where.
And it's an awful lot easier than spending days looking for intermittant faults.
2006-10-11 21:35:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Still in the trade - ex Royal Navy radio / radar tech, moved into production / manufacturing on the repair side for 2 Companies (still with one). Being within a customer service related centre makes for a varied 'diet'! CRT TV, Plasma / LCD, DVD players / recorders - some with HDD & some without - VCR (some still out there), digital printers, digital VCR, photo-editing equipment, digi stills camera / camcorder, PSP's, Netwalkman's ... and so the list goes on ... sadly though, most of today's repairs result from board replacement rather than proper fault-finding, partly due to B.G.A. technology and lack of necessary diagnostic / test equipment, partly down to cost (return of profit), with Eastern European & Far Eastern manufacturing being so cheap, it simply isn't worth the time to open your toolbox or turn on the 'scope!
By the way ... if you guys saw the tens of thousands of £££'s worth of stock we throw away DAILY ... you'd cry!
Good luck to you all.
2006-10-13 02:02:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was an engineer and it's true what you say. It's cheaper to fit whole new units than to repair broken ones, particularly in telecoms. I switched to doing minor repairs, which are still carried out, and then to warehousing, i.e looking after and receiving and despatching the new units to replace the old ones!
And yes, I've got reach and counterbalance licences and drive a fork lift too.
2006-10-12 00:00:04 · answer #8 · answered by prakdrive 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My friend was a TV repair man. At lot of his colleagues had been made redundant over the years. He was finally made redundant just before last Xmas. Got a new job straightaway to do with electronics and loves it. Also now earning more.
It just shows sometimes what you think of initially as bad news turns out to be exactly the opposite.
LOL.
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