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**thakitt** · 01-16-2009, 09:57 AM

Well that's the unfortunate thing about the industry. No geek with exceptional computer skills wants to work for a computer repair shop. It doesn't pay well and so it's not exactly the holy grail of computer jobs. In the end these type of jobs attract those that think they know things about computers, however they have never really been all that proficient. You could tell some of them had an idea roughly where the issue could be however they identified the wrong component at fault.

If the jobs paid well and offered incentives like corporate IT departments, then you'd probably see the quality of store techs improve. Secondly you might only need to hire half as many computer techs as proficient techies identify and fix problems much faster than those that have no idea. So hire 1 good techie at $50,000 instead of two crap ones for $60,000.

01-16-2009, 09:57 AM	#22
thakitt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 555 Senior Member	Well that's the unfortunate thing about the industry. No geek with exceptional computer skills wants to work for a computer repair shop. It doesn't pay well and so it's not exactly the holy grail of computer jobs. In the end these type of jobs attract those that think they know things about computers, however they have never really been all that proficient. You could tell some of them had an idea roughly where the issue could be however they identified the wrong component at fault. If the jobs paid well and offered incentives like corporate IT departments, then you'd probably see the quality of store techs improve. Secondly you might only need to hire half as many computer techs as proficient techies identify and fix problems much faster than those that have no idea. So hire 1 good techie at $50,000 instead of two crap ones for $60,000.
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