Night time electronics course

stopper

Hi,

Please, could somebody recommend a good Electronics course for a complete beginner? I'm know hi-tech training and a couple of the third level colleges runs courses but I could do with some advice.

thanks in advance,

stopper

Dr. Bill

Why bother ... There's **** all jobs in electronics here.

cargrouch

Just the way you've asked the question confuses me a small bit - are you looking for a short course on the basics of electronics, or are you looking for a cert/diploma/degree?

If you are looking to get qualified in something, I'd highly recommend a plumbing or electrical apprenticeship over electronics! If it is engineering you want to do, process engineering seems to be the place to be these days. If you've been sucked into electronics by one of the recent newspaper articles that said it's a growing industry, then I'm afraid it's complete lies.

stopper

Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking of maybe doing a course that lead to a cert. I didn't realise though that jobs were so scarce!

cargrouch

I don't know how people with certs are fairing these days. A few guys with diplomas that I know found it hard to get anything other than short contracts. A lot of these jobs tend to be with manufacturing and assembly type companies. These companies have been packing their bags and heading for China etc for the last few years.

I'm not familiar with the different cert/diploma courses available (esp in Dublin) but a suggestion I made to another poster recently was to look into courses to do with industrial control/mechatronics/PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers).

nobodythere

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