Computers can be wonderful, they can change the way that we live our lives, making things better for hundreds of people and making menial and tedious tasks simply automated. However we are all kidding ourselves if we believe that these machines will run smoothly without the need for any hardware maintenance..
It doesn't matter what technological enhancement you have in your life at some stage it will need a degree of hardware maintenance, whether it is a cash machine that is fitted in the wall outside of the local Tesco supermarket or the latest computer installed with all your business application and games. Electronic components will take a pounding and over time will become worn out.
This means that there is a space in the market for people who want to become hardware maintenance engineers. So if you have woken up over the last few days and you are wondering where you life is going and feel like you need a change of direction then why not look into taking a course in the new year and training up in a new profession.
It is amazing where making a simple change like that can lead you to over the course of a year. A friend of mine spent some time working on obtaining his hardware maintenance qualification through one of the accredited national bodies and later found a job within a motorsport team that needed a hardware engineer to travel the world with them Google jobs in US. It was an amazing experience for him as he was a huge fan of motorsport and travelling the world with the team was a dream come true.
It wouldn't have happened either if he hadn't of taken the first step to change his career, If not he would still be stuck there fixing software problems for companies on the out skirts of London which didn't pay very well either. Now he is mixing it with all the superstars on the race circuit and keeps sending me back pictures from the various race events that he is at. Obviously the workload is quite stressful but it would still be stressful if he was in an office somewhere performing hardware maintenance.
Life is all about chances, some of us choose to take them and we get greater opportunities because of our risk taking. Others decide to play it safe all the time and avoid risk taking but these people will never get ahead when it comes to life as they keep expecting life to plonk something on their plate. Make sure that you are a go-getter in 2010. Make the change.
Gino Hitshopi is a career advisor with many years of experience helping people to find that dream job.
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