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Benefits of Having a Technician Title for College and Career Opportunities

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  • #1 1992249
    ziutostar
    Level 14  
    Hello everyone, as for the topic, what will a technical title give me, apart from the fact that I will be able to do something and have a profession, but if I went to college, would they take into account the fact that I have such a title or it doesn`t matter?
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  • #2 1992288
    Roli
    Level 26  
    You can only go to university if you graduate from high school, and it doesn`t matter whether you graduate from high school or technical school.
    Quote:
    What will the title of technician give me, apart from the fact that I will be able to do something and have a profession?

    You can always do something and education doesn`t matter - what counts is what you can do ;)
  • #3 1992491
    karolmichalewcz
    Level 18  
    What matters is practice, your practical skills.
    If you were skipping school and looking to move from class to class, you won`t do anything after such an education...
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  • #4 1992898
    kilork
    Level 17  
    It depends on whether the profile of studies will coincide with the profile of a technical school, if so, it may be useful because some courses are better if you already have some basics.
  • #5 1993050
    lll
    Level 15  
    hmm, and I will say from my experience that if you are thinking about technical studies, the best solution is math-physics. I was in such a class, and at my PW faculty (wip) I have friends who graduated from technical school and I see that I surpassed them quite quickly in terms of level (at the beginning they were better because I didn`t know much what a lathe looked like, but it`s not a significant difference ) they had a lot of problems with passing mechanical engineering (which they had a lot of at the technical school), I passed it the first time, drawing etc. From the second semester, they stopped saying that the technical school had given them something and started coming to people who graduated from high school for help. I`m glad I didn`t go to technical school because for me it was a waste of a year of my life. as for work, with the title of technician or whatever you call it ;) you won`t roll much.
  • #6 1999363
    ziutostar
    Level 14  
    I would not entirely agree with you as to whether it is better to go to a technical school or to a general university, why? I am in an electronics technical school specializing in computer systems and I have subjects that appear at university almost all the time. If I wanted to go to computer science studies, any but related to computer science, there are mostly the same subjects as electrical engineering, electronics, computer networks, digital circuits, analog circuits, microcontrollers and their programming and a few others. So it cannot be said that the time at the technical school is wasted because half of the subjects I have will appear on the studies I want to go to are about vocational subjects such as I mentioned before. And contrary to appearances, these are not easy subjects and cannot be compared to mechanics or lathe. In the case of your friends, technical school may not have been a good idea, mechanical engineering, writing or lathe can be classified as but I know perfectly well that people who went to study, for example, computer networks or computer systems, had big problems with the subjects I mentioned.
  • #7 2001338
    strdaniel
    Level 20  
    the truth is that people with a math degree have it better at the beginning of their studies in electronics or automation, unfortunately they start to have problems when technical subjects appear and this is where technology starts to rule.
    Of course, what technology has to put into making up for the deficiencies in math and physics is the same amount that people have to put into physics to make up for electrical and electronics subjects.
    Of course, this is only in general because there are people for whom everything comes easily

    Regards
  • #8 2048143
    lll
    Level 15  
    no offense but do you know what the deal is with them?? Fluid mechanics, strength of machine parts, technical thermodynamics, automation and at a good university these are subjects where the pass rate is 1-10 people/term. I`m not saying that electronics is easy, but if you don`t know what mechanics is, don`t say that it`s that easy, and your "lathe of some kind" is currently CNC programming, e.g. in Catia Proengineer, etc. find some literature for such programs. ;)
    everything at technical universities (good ones) is difficult, high school has the advantage that you have more choices after the high school leaving exam, and after technical school you can basically only go for what you had at the technical school. przdmowca is right that at the beginning it is easier for people with math and science degrees, and then after technical school, but for a large part of people with technical school degrees it is not possible later, because they are sent for analysis, even if there was a good technical school somewhere in the country that`s another matter ;)
  • #9 2048419
    nilder
    Level 16  
    What are you writing about here?! What will the technician give you? Simply put - work. And if you are still knowledgeable in your field, you will earn quite good money.

    hehehe it`s that simple :D
  • #10 2069171
    elpiko
    Level 17  
    In electronics technical school, I had a high level of mathematics and practically no physics. Now I am studying Automation and Robotics (first year). I studied for the physics entrance exam during the holidays and passed.

    In the case of technical school vs. high school can be written for a long time.

    I didn`t like the electronics engineering program anymore, and now, from what I`ve heard, it`s even worse. Imagine that I took history for 5 years and physics for 4 years! I can`t imagine going to high school where I would have to learn even more of this nonsense.

    I had fun in technical subjects. Sometimes it was difficult (even in technical school it can be difficult) but I knew that I was learning what interested me.

    In a five-year technical school you have a lot of time to develop your interests. You don`t waste time reading novels that don`t interest you, learning history or biology.

    After graduating from technical school, you already have an idea of broadly understood technology and this will be useful for your technical studies.

    If mathematics and physics are at a low level in your technical school, spend some time and study it. Fortunately, these are exact subjects, a technical mind will not have any major problems with them, especially with physics.

    Best regards and I`m looking forward to the physics course (next semester). :)
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  • #11 2083490
    r06ert
    Level 25  
    lll wrote:
    High school gives the advantage that you have more choices after the high school leaving exam, and after technical school you can basically only pursue what you had at the technical school.


    what nonsense is this!! my friends basically went everywhere after TE. Half of them (including me) went to university, but the other half were spread everywhere: sociology, Polish studies, marketing...

    elpiko wrote:

    In a five-year technical school you have a lot of time to develop your interests. You don`t waste time reading novels that don`t interest you, learning history or biology.


    right! Already in the second half of the 4th grade, I started to study the first year of studies in mathematics (matrices, integrals, complex numbers - which I actually had in the 2nd grade in electrical engineering...) and the entire fifth grade was devoted to preparation for the Matura exam. I remember like a math test. We had 90 minutes to solve the final exam tasks, while during the final exam we had 5 hours to do it!! :)
  • #12 2090196
    creck
    Level 11  
    what matters is what you are interested in, after high school you can be an electronics engineer, after technical school you can have no idea about electronics... that`s the truth
  • #13 2090259
    p.peter1
    Level 12  
    Quote:
    [quote="llll"]no offense but do you know what`s going on with them?? Fluid mechanics, strength of machine parts, technical thermodynamics, automation and at a good university these are subjects where the pass rate is 1-10 people/term.


    Can you tell me, my friend, at which university of technology (electronics) you took such subjects?
  • #14 2201695
    dex
    Level 27  
    High school sucks, what`s the point of studying some bullshit like chemistry or biology if/if you`re interested in something that starts with electrxxx

    What guys who graduated from high school will learn during their studies, how a voltmeter works, you will have after a technical school, and maybe some microprocs, etc., that`s why you`re ahead, and even more if you do something yourself.
    At the beginning (of studies) there will definitely be a problem with math and physics (but it`s a matter of who you meet...) because in high school they have more hours and that`s it! not at a higher level, and high school definitely has more girls :) as in techniques.

    And if it`s something related to programming, a good option is a secondary school with a mat-inf profile, like elektrxxx, it`s only a technical school if you`re interested in it..

    Secondly, there used to be an extra point for technical school when getting into technical studies, but guys from high school had extra points for some electives that they could take additionally.
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  • #15 2205189
    paw789
    Level 18  
    Everything is relative, it depends, for example, on the level of technical school and high school. I graduated from high school in mathematics, I am in the first year of technical physics at the Technical University of Szczecin, and I noticed that now, when we are pushed in math and physics, people after high school do much better than after technical school, the same is true in other fields at the faculty.
  • #16 2207551
    djt_76
    Level 2  
    I see that a lot of people praise the technical school because it doesn`t have biology, geography and other nonsense, probably because you went to a 5-year technical school. Now the 4-year-old has these items (well, at least I have it).
  • #17 2207584
    r06ert
    Level 25  
    and the 5-year technical school is geography and something like "environmental protection" instead of biology. Now, in 4-year technical schools, there is, of course, normal biology. Everything is at the same level, except that there are a lot of professional subjects.
    After the first semester at the polytechnic, I must say that it is not true that high schools are doing better than technical schools at the beginning. It all depends on what kind of teachers we had in high school.
  • #18 2211355
    Pio_monter
    Level 12  
    Hello
    For example, since I was a child I liked electronics and electricity, I took apart radios and everything I had at home to see what was there, I was 8 or 9 years old then, when I was 10 years old my mother bought me a transformer soldering iron and I started soldering batteries in series and some LEDs. , I started to become interested in electronics, my mother bought me sets of apples and I learned from the simplest ones, at the beginning I remember that I couldn`t do it and I could even cry, but it was still at that age when it started working for me, I was so excited that I wanted more, my mother bought it books for beginners, at the age of 12 I was already good and I repaired simple things at home, I was a person who didn`t study well at school, I came home and I always heard "clean up the room" from my mother, I had a lot of cables lying everywhere, I scrapped them electronics, when I was 14 years old, I made lighting, stroboscopes, color cameras, and of course sets for school discos, and the teacher saw that I wasn`t that stupid after all, I chose electrical school because I didn`t have such a good certificate for electronics, I was in a technical school and I failed the first grade , I started going to basic electrical engineering and finished it and now I`m doing engineering in the evenings and I`ll tell you that if you do what you like, school in this field is a good way, now I repair laptops, mobile phones, all kinds of equipment, I learned from my own mistakes , something burned out more than once, something went wrong, but I know that at school in this field they told me and showed me a lot, patterns, diagrams to connect in the workshop, workshops, i.e. lathes and others, I will tell you that what counts is what you really like do and what you can do, knowledge is really the path to success, no one can take that away from you,

    Sorry for the mistakes, I`m a bad speller

    Greetings from all over the world
  • #19 2823168
    TonyBlake
    Level 1  
    Hello everyone. I think that the most sensible choice is to choose a technical school or a technical high school - but a good one! I have a friend who graduated from a really good mechanical technical school and you can see that it gave him theoretical and, more importantly, practical knowledge!!!. After graduating from high school, you are an offer that he knows only theoretical nonsense and does not have any practical and technical knowledge, which is the most valuable. Anyone who has studied or is studying knows that studies do not provide any practical knowledge, but only theory. And that is why many people finish technical studies after high school - without having a green certificate. practical knowledge about your profession - and this does not bode well for the future :)
  • #20 2844199
    mosfet
    Level 25  
    NOTHING

    Moderated:

    writing short nonsense messages

  • #21 2844240
    janek1815
    Level 38  
    I will also say that a technical degree does not give anything, I wanted to go to a technical school but I failed the entrance exam in physics, the requirement was 5, I got 4, it was in 1992, I got into a vocational high school with a profile of an electronic equipment assembler, I had at least some basics, just like the guy above, Pio_monter. I will say that I do not regret this school, I do not know what has changed during these 14 years in the Polish school, but the teaching system was terrible, they taught things that were of no use to anyone, I don`t want to brag, but at the end of the school, me and my friend Szymek were the only ones out of 26 We got an excellent grade in the practical exam and there was just a gap between us and the rest of the class. why did the rest not intend to learn electronics anyway, but to graduate from a vocational high school. the next thing is the practice at school, for me it was like that in the first grade, for half a year I was making a piece of metal by hand with a hammer, for two months I was working on lathe, planer and milling machines, I won`t say it, but it was useful to me because I have access to such machines at my neighbor`s and I can do something myself. and for two months it was an "electronics workshop" where a guy taught us how to make soldering tips for 10 hours for "2 days", then we dismantled some machines or we soldered some chips from some old Russian devices because he wanted to. it was the last time I did an internship at school. I arranged a private internship. when my skills were noticed, I was transferred to the television department and I repaired TV videos and monitors. At the age of 17-18, I was already repairing electronic equipment in nearby villages. Now looking at it all from the perspective of time, the school would not have taught me anything if it weren`t for my own willingness and practice, because that`s the only thing that counts, although theory too, but it often happens that theory does not go hand in hand with practice. so my opinion is: IT DOESN`T MATTER WHETHER IT`S A HIGH SCHOOL OR A TECHNICAL SCHOOL, THE ONLY MATTER IS PRACTICE, PRACTICE AND PRACTICE AGAIN
  • #22 2844333
    r06ert
    Level 25  
    for people after high school:
    It is a good idea to choose a technical school rather than a high school, just to have a year longer to prepare for the high school leaving exam.
  • #23 2844525
    micho a
    Level 35  
    Nowadays the technician won`t give you anything..........

    people, what kind of communist texts are you writing that what matters is skills??

    For a messenger delivering letters from the employment office, fluent knowledge of English is required :lol: why the hell would such a messenger speak English??

    and other fireworks such as a necessary B driving license for an electronics technician repairing equipment at home, perfect English for a guy laying cables in houses, etc. :D :D :D

    you can only count on a job abroad after graduating from a technical school, my friend had SEP, he went to England, he didn`t know anything except hello and f...k you in English :D :D :D :D he started working as an electrician`s assistant, helping to connect Christmas lights illuminating houses, and he brought in so much money that in Poland he wouldn`t have earned that much in 3 months. :D

    as for technical school, in my technical school, geography lasts 2 years (1st and 2nd grade), chemistry is the same... and I will say that lately, vocational subjects have been getting on my nerves more and more (calculating these complex numbers, and tasks like what voltage will be at point Z if it was impossible to build and measure this system :D :D :D :D )so it`s not that great either :D

    I know everything I need :D :D :D
  • #24 2844659
    Anonymous
    Anonymous  
  • #25 2844701
    mosfet
    Level 25  
    mosfet wrote:
    NOTHING

    writing short nonsense messages



    Rather, the moderator`s reasoning was short and nonsensical.
    How much frustration there is in this one word on this topic....


    The length of a statement has nothing to do with its value. Maybe this one word was written by someone who no longer has the strength to write essays on how technical schools and technicians are going to the dogs... This title was given to people who did not know how to connect the radio in their car. Merely `grinding` through a technical school and not having the knowledge and skills gives you a diploma.... now it will be the same with the graduate... Sorry, I don`t have the strength just to think about it. In one suitcase and from this country.

    :(

    Added after 1 [minute]:

    .....

    Maybe the title alone doesn`t mean anything. But I wouldn`t trade my kennel for anything else. We met some really valuable people and had unforgettable moments!
  • #26 2844730
    antyquariat
    Level 11  
    In fact, it would be best to have a technician with a college degree, because electronics studies, if you choose one, provide a huge foundation of theoretical knowledge (unfortunately), not practical knowledge. There are engineers with electronics degrees who work in services and it`s scary to see what they do. Some people seem to have missed their calling. Unfortunately, the title of electronics technician is not taken into account when recruiting for studies - only the result of the high school leaving examination is taken into account. Regards, "Antyquaria"
  • #27 2844757
    cederom
    Level 11  
    Hello mosfet, friend! :)

    people ask about the title because they don`t know what they want to do in life. When it comes to schools, it doesn`t really matter where you go, you have to meet the right people and that`s it. The philosophy of school and studies itself is not really close to me, and the implementation turns me off. The technical school was absolutely great, but at university it is less great, and this is because the attitude of interested people to random people has changed, there are also different lecturers, not has plenty of time to create...

    Recently I have come to the conclusion that it is a matter of the people you are with and their willingness to share their knowledge. You really have to get it right, because there are almost no such people anymore, which is a pity :(

    answering my friend`s question, because this should be the meaning of my answer - if you feel electronics, don`t ask unnecessary questions, just develop in this direction, act, create. if you don`t know what you want to do, go to high school, there will be more girls and parties, then go to university in Eiti, go with the flow, earn a lot of money, gain contacts and live happily, asking people for advice from time to time ;)

    Regards! :)
  • #28 2844848
    Anonymous
    Anonymous  
  • #29 2844970
    Arnold_S.
    Level 26  
    micho a wrote:
    [...] as for technical school, in my technical school there are 2 years of geography (1st and 2nd grade) and chemistry is the same...... and I will say that lately, vocational subjects have been getting on my nerves more and more (counting these complex numbers, and tasks such as what voltage will be at point Z if it was impossible to build and measure this system :D :D :D :D )so it`s not that great either :D
    I know as much as I need :D :D :D


    Man! What nonsense. It`s already obvious that you won`t be a technician. :)
    Do you know the word Design?
    How do you imagine building devices by trial and error (first build, then measure, improve, wonder why it went up in smoke)?

    Or better. Building houses, bridges, etc., and then waiting to see if they collapse or not...
    :D
  • #30 2845974
    Artur k.
    VIP Meritorious for electroda.pl
    Hello

    I personally chose technical school (even though I didn`t finish it, but for completely different reasons), why technical school?

    First of all, for yourself :) , you graduate from such a school and say "I am an electronics engineer and I have it in writing", of course, if you are not interested in technology (electronics, etc.), there is no point in bothering yourself.
    I believe that high school simply gives us time (3 years now) to think about what we really want to do in life, and at the same time we are getting closer to this "pass" to university.

    Moreover, after technical school, you can always find a job in your favorite profession and earn extra money, and at the same time study part-time. :) , I don`t really know what (sensible) job you can get after finishing high school.

    The issue of practice is also quite important, believe me, stupidly making a hammer gives you a lot of skills - even precision, I have never made a hammer myself, but I have made a round washer from a square bar of steel. What did it do for me?? Someone tell me now that it can`t be done properly with a file :) .
    Mechanical skills are really very useful in the electronics profession, what if you build a device for yourself and you want it to look nice, but you don`t know how to finish it nicely?

    And finally, the opposite question: What`s the harm in having a technician? :)

    Regards

Topic summary

The discussion revolves around the value of obtaining a technician title in relation to college and career opportunities. Participants express varying opinions on the significance of technical education versus general high school education. Many emphasize that practical skills and hands-on experience are crucial for success in technical fields, while others argue that a strong foundation in mathematics and physics is essential for advanced studies in electronics and engineering. Some participants share personal experiences, noting that technical school can provide relevant knowledge for specific university courses, particularly in electronics and automation. However, there is a consensus that the technician title alone may not guarantee job prospects or higher education opportunities, as employers often prioritize practical skills and relevant experience over formal titles.
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