Unless it was my mother, in which case you'd be there ALL WEEK.
Want to get into Computer Building or Maintaince as a career and work for a company like OCUK. Need
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Unless it was my mother, in which case you'd be there ALL WEEK.
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It's akin to working in a pie factory. You won't build a career from plugging things in.
Seriously, look somewhere else for a starting job, and I don't think you can afford to be picky about starting wages, you have no experience.
OP, no one is saying dont go for it as for a first job it aint bad, it will either be something like this, or IT 1st line support, as its not a bad starting point, however I think the people here are saying is, whilst you are in this job, use your spare time to study a different more skilled area of IT, something which can offer you much more money 
in the future.
If you really are going to get your first job as a system builder (as a stepping stone job) make sure the job has more responsibilities with it, like providing technical support as there really is not much to putting a pc together.
in the future.If you really are going to get your first job as a system builder (as a stepping stone job) make sure the job has more responsibilities with it, like providing technical support as there really is not much to putting a pc together.
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It is unskilled. The same as the women in Malaysia who work in factories producing PCBs. Don't expect anything more than minimum wage.
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this is what i imagine computer building jobs to be like.
http://image.made-in-china.com/6f3j00QBNakIpLatbF/Manufacturing-Assembly-Line.jpg
one person plugs in the 1000 graphics card all day to each case, then next person plugs in 1000 cpu's all day, next person ram all day and that's it.
computer building should be a stepping stones not the goal
http://image.made-in-china.com/6f3j00QBNakIpLatbF/Manufacturing-Assembly-Line.jpg
one person plugs in the 1000 graphics card all day to each case, then next person plugs in 1000 cpu's all day, next person ram all day and that's it.
computer building should be a stepping stones not the goal
ahh well guess I was wrong, all the fun jobs pay nothing
How much fun do you think it'll be when you're onto your umpteenth time of doing the same thing over and over again?
Thats pretty much what the Dell assembly line will look like.
ahh well guess I was wrong, all the fun jobs pay nothing
FUN?!
Next time you build a new PC - build it as quickly as you can. As soon as you've finished, take it apart and do it again. Repeat for 8 hours, and repeat this mon-fri. You'll soon realise that it isn't fun.
ahh well guess I was wrong, all the fun jobs pay nothing
It's not a fun job, it's mind numbingly dull.
well my current uni course is even more boring with the C++ and the codes and maths and logic numbering PS what is the starting salary like for say a programmer or anyone else who studies a Computer Systems Engineering course? I guess around £20k
A damn sight more than production line monkeys.
I think a lot of us thought we could "make computers for a living" but in reality it just doesn't work like that, I know I thought about it, I may even have put a post up about it many many moons ago but the answer has always been the same, don't bother.
start around 20k outside of financial sector i guess. I got over £30k after 18 months.
Salary is highly dependent on location of course.
I worked as a Repair tech for about a year and its boring enough. When we had slow days on odd occasions I had to help out on the "line" doing 50 laptops an hour, fit cpu ram, HDD, DVDROM install OS.. It was the worst boring experience of my life. I made sure I was terrible at it, they never asked me back to help.
Dont get into it, the money was pittance. i Cant imagine a company paying more than minimum wage.
Dont get into it, the money was pittance. i Cant imagine a company paying more than minimum wage.