Is there a future for electronics repair?

No2rdame

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The nature of the beast has changed quite a bit, but there is and will continue to be a need for electronics repair. Take a look at all the services now being offered to replace smartphone and ipod screens. In addition, consider that you still have multiple industries that still rely heavily on electronics. Hospitals need people who can repair expensive diagnostic equipment, businesses still rely on vendors to fix broken copiers, every company has an IT desktop services team that can do basic PC troubleshooting and fixing, casinos will always need someone familiar with electronics to keep slot machines running, and the list could go on.

Now, the days of having your TV fixed have pretty much passed and many electronic items today are of modular design where if a component goes kaput you just plug and replace, but you'd be surprised at how many people still pay good money for that to be done by someone else due to ignorance of how things work.
 

anti-painkilla

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There will always be the need for commercial repairs. Companies can spend hundreds of thousands on a single device. A days worth of a repairers time is pittance compared to the cost of the device not working.

Consumer products are cheap enough for replacement and not worth paying someone to fix. I would even guess that the large portion if not the majority of consumer repairs are warranty jobs.
 

wip99gt

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Try being a Generator Mechanic. I deal with chipsets, wiring, sensors, and diodes all day. Of course there's still the mechanical side of it but the electronics side is probably 50% of the job now with common rail engines.