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| Thread ID: 37049 | 2003-08-27 03:29:00 | advice for a student wanting to be a techinician | heath (3489) | Press F1 |
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| 170870 | 2003-08-27 03:29:00 | hi, i am a high school syudent and for part of my careers study at school, we had a look around in www.careers.com It said that i had to take maths, physics and english at seventh form. But i had many people tell me that i dont need 7th form englsih to be a computer techinician. could anyone give me any advice? |
heath (3489) | ||
| 170871 | 2003-08-27 03:38:00 | 7th form is bullshit...your best bet is to go to your local computer place and offer your services for free learn the job inside out, then poach all their customers if they are not willing to hire you of course. You just need the right attitude for the job. A lot of people are self-taught. | dotcommander (4338) | ||
| 170872 | 2003-08-27 03:39:00 | Look at the websites for your local polytechs. Under the various courses you will see the entry requirements. From the Auckland University of Tehnology site: Diploma in Electrotechnology (www.aut.ac.nz) Bachelor of EngineeringTechnology - Computer Systems Engineering Major (www.aut.ac.nz) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 170873 | 2003-08-27 03:48:00 | You may want to be a computer technician now but in ten or fifteen years time you don't know where the heck you might be. I would suggest that you don't limit your horizons by leaving out an essential subject such as English or maths, no matter how irrelevant the subject material may be to you right now. It is the stuff on that bit of paper they call a certificate that most employers are interested in. As for seventh form being a waste of time, it is for those who have no interest in furthering their education once they leave school or are wasting their time at school now. For those with an eye on their future it is time well spent. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 170874 | 2003-08-27 04:00:00 | > 7th form is bullshit... I did 7th forum last year (2002) & I can say as a ex student it is Not b*******In my option that is the best year!!!! |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 170875 | 2003-08-27 04:02:00 | > > 7th form is bullshit... > > I did 7th forum last year (2002) & I can say as a ex > student it is Not b*******In my option that is the > best year!!!! ok, it can be stressful but depends on what school you go to it can be a good year! |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 170876 | 2003-08-27 04:11:00 | With the benefit of age (lots of it) I can assure you, English is core to whatever you choose to do. Like you, I aspired to be a technician and became one. I realised then that I needed greater English skills and did the study, however it would have been better to have those skills at the beginning. A good understanding of both written and oral communications enabled me to go far beyond the technician role. One only needs to browse these forums to see how lacking basic English skills are. If you can communicate correctly and effectively, you have an advantage over your peers. With enough study you may even be able to spell "technician" :) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 170877 | 2003-08-27 04:35:00 | I agree with Godfather, whatever path you choose to follow in life, unless you are in solitary confinement the key to success lies in your communication skills, written and oral, both sending and receiving. If a job candidate can't write lucid English (never mind the spelling for a moment) there is a pretty good chance their comprehension skills will be poor as well, and misinterpreting oral or written instructions or giving confusing or ambiguous instructions are a real career limiter. It doen't matter if the employer is worse than you either, they make the decisions! I spent many years as a national examiner in a technical field and I often saw the consequences of inadequate time spent learning English. Students who were clearly knowledgeable in their field would misread questions or instructions and go off on the most extraordinary tangents, ultimately causing failure or a grade much lower than they could have achieved. Stick with the 7th Form and consolidate your abilities. Cheers Billy 8-{) [b][pre]Of course there is always politics or signwriting, neither attracts good spellers! |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 170878 | 2003-08-27 05:06:00 | STAY IN SCHOOL!!! Youo have nothing to lose and everything to gain by completeing your school education. Further to that it's pointless having all the technician's knowledge in the world, and yet you are unable to explain something as rudementory as installing a hard drive to a customer. Remember that being a technician not only means having the technical expertise but also the communication skills to impart something to a "normal person" in a simple sentence, WITHOUT confusing them. |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 170879 | 2003-08-27 05:10:00 | Don't limit yourself too early on, no one really knows what they want to do. Suggest you go to a university which gives you a broader range of options to take and to tailor make your degree, although officially aut is a university many of their courses will not get you far so do some research first. 7th form is the most important year since what you learn there is the base for everything you will learn at a tertiary institution. If you do maths in 7th form do calculus. And yes english is a must, no lecturer or employer is going to be sympathetic if he has to decipher what you write. It is always good to be articulate your ideas on paper. If you want to try out to be a technician take a year after school and try to find a company that will hire you, the experience will be good. However after a few weeks of making and fixing computers/problems you'll probably want to broaden your scope. |
rsnic (3780) | ||
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