ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN?

Electronics engineering technician?

• If i earn an associates degree in Electrical/electronic engineering technology: How much do they make an hour? after two years? How is the workload? is it stressful? Should i continue to major in accounting instead?

• Answer:

  Well, let's see. I couldn't answer about salary for I live in Argentina and not in the States, but concerning the workload and the stress: It really depends on your personality. In my case I'm a bit obsessive so even though my boss doen't put pressure on me, when I have a difficult problem I just can't take my mind off it. So in that way, it may be stressful. But once I come up with a solution I feel so good that it really tops my "concerning" phase. In my case I work in 4 main areas: Project definition, circuit and PCB design, embeded programming, and testing and debugging. After all that's concluded I have to generate the proper information so the production guys can manufacture. Maybe if you work in a bigger company you'll be devoted to only one or two of this areas. In my opinion the project definition is one of the most exciting phases because you haven't yet discovered all the problems, so you are still really happy. An contrary, testing and debugging is a stressful phase every project has to overcome to finish the development cycle. I hope this helped you and if you want further information or advice contact me ;)