Please Help I need career choice help

[Ne1_dan]

I am currently 14 and I have recently taking quite a liking to computer hardware and such, I have built One computer from scratch. The thing I need to know is will I get a good pay from being a computer technician, Would I sit In a factory for the rest of my life, will I be happy, Will I have to work Lots of hours to get a decent wage or should I start pursuing other career choices now, or is there more behind working with computer and hardware?
Thank you in advance.

 

[Jacob McIntosh]

Have you considered some type of engineering relating to computers?

 

[Ne1_dan]

I have Not I will do some research tonight

 

[USAFRet]

Every job, especially at the beginning, involves "Lots of hours".

There is money to be made in a job associated with computers. Or cars. Or medical. Or plumbing. Etc, etc, etc.

 

[Ne1_dan]

I Know that I am starting out I will need to put in a lot of hours to get a decent wage, I meant with 5 or 10 years experience, and Do you Know What jobs I could Get i am more into the physical side of engineering so routing cables, fixing computers, installing new components and tasks like that so no software jobs please.

 

[yosimba2000]

Ne1, the job you describe above most closely relates to with being a technician, although you do mention "engineering".
Engineering is the design and creation of something, so if you want to design and create computer hardware, you should be a computer engineer/ electrical engineer. You could be working at processor center (Intel, AMD, TI, etc) to help create next gen products. You get an engineering degree from college/universty.

Technicians don't make these devices. What they do is take part already available and attach them appropriately to a device so it'll work. Think of like the guys who fix phone poles, electrical lines, ethernet cable guys, etc. You can be a technician through a vocational school. Vocational school is like an apprenticeship.

 

[Ne1_dan]

^ thank you so much , you have helped a lot, i hope one day I can assist you too! Thank you

 

[HaffaWaffle]

I've been working as a computer technician for about a year now at a local computer repair shop and every day I go to work, I am excited to see what problems I will be faced with and I do anything I can to fix them. It all depends on if you are sincerely interested in your job and helping people that come to you for assistance. Make sure you are comfortable going to work and the people you are working with. Also NEVER be afraid to learn something new you have never explored before, Those skills will ALWAYS help in the future.