Electronics Repair Technician
📱Fixes phones, laptops, TVs and appliances: diagnostics, micro-soldering under a microscope, replacing screens and connectors.
Prospects & pay
What the work is like
💼 Job market
🇺🇸 $58.3k a year on average · +4.8% jobs by 2035 · 2,200 openings a year
Electronic home entertainment equipment installers & repairers — US: Census ACS 2020–24 (full-time), BLS projections 2025–35
🇬🇧 £48.1k median a year · 20,000 jobs
Electrical and electronic trades n.e.c. — UK: ONS ASHE 2025 (full-time)
🤖 AI & automation
AI will speed up diagnostics and finding schematics, but soldering and disassembly are done by hand; the bigger threat is unrepairable devices, not AI.
Who it suits
Interests: 🔧 Making things by hand, ⚙️ Tech and engineering, 💻 Coding and digital.
Key strengths: manual dexterity, logic.
Where to study
- Course Micro-soldering and manufacturer repair courses; IPC J-STD-001 / IPC-7711 certification
- Vocational Informationselektroniker/in (Ausbildung, DE); BTEC Electronics (UK); electronics technician certificate (US)
Key school subjects (A-level / IB / AP): Physics, Computer Science.
🧗 Repair and micro-soldering courses (a few months) or college: an Informationselektroniker Ausbildung in Germany, BTEC in the UK. Right-to-repair laws in the EU and US widen demand; many run their own shop.
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