Re: Hobbyist electronics courses... extinct?

Roger Dewhurst wrote: 
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Charles Schuler wrote:


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After asking several dumb questions on this newsgroup, I realized I 

was

going to need some extra help if I was ever going to learn this stuff.
So I searched for an electronics course in my community.  I couldn't
find one.  I found a million yoga classes, but no basic electronics
courses.  My only options seem to be an electricians' ticket or an
engineering degree, and I'm not ready for either of those.  I live in


a

city with ~75 000 people.

Do you think my problems are due to the community's size, or is this a
problem in most areas?


It is becoming more difficult to find community college courses in
electronics in most areas.  These courses were typically offered for
"technicians" and this area of employment is shrinking.


In terminal decline would be more accurate.

Graham 


Surely someone has design and repair electronic devices.  People must get
some training somewhere.  Industry, in a general sense, cannot function
without technicians.  Engineers may design things but technicians are
necessary to build them and fix them when they go wrong.  A society with too
many graduates and not enough technicians supporting them does not function
very well.  Too many chiefs and not enough indians!

R


American industry will just outsource it to China or India. There're plenty of technicians there.

Bill,
Phoenix
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