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Hi my names Luke and this is my first post here so not quite sure if it's in the right place but anyway.

I have a strong interest in technology, how it changes and using it. I feel this is a great area to get into but with because nearly everything has something to do with it and it is such a wide area I'm unsure what jobs there actually are around us. I don't find much interest in like heating systems etc etc something more rewarding, developing, creating something like that a job with all the latest cool technology involved with you may even have at your home. It really is hard to explain with the wide range of areas in that pool but some sort of advice or websites anything which may help me or even others who are unsure. Any sort of help would be great.

Many thanks

Myself and others would greatly appreciate any advice :smile:
Have a look at the website Prospects.ac.uk they have a career advisor tool that can list potential jobs for you to pursue.
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Whereabouts can I find that on the site?
Google Prospects Career Planner.
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Original post by Luke0270
Hi my names Luke and this is my first post here so not quite sure if it's in the right place but anyway.

I have a strong interest in technology, how it changes and using it. I feel this is a great area to get into but with because nearly everything has something to do with it and it is such a wide area I'm unsure what jobs there actually are around us. I don't find much interest in like heating systems etc etc something more rewarding, developing, creating something like that a job with all the latest cool technology involved with you may even have at your home. It really is hard to explain with the wide range of areas in that pool but some sort of advice or websites anything which may help me or even others who are unsure. Any sort of help would be great.

Many thanks

Myself and others would greatly appreciate any advice :smile:


If you want to make new technology then look at courses like Computer Science (software development) or Electrical Engineering (designing hardware)

To be honest if you want to make or design technology then your going to have to learn the very basics of it first - that means going to uni and learning how to engineer or program electronics from the ground up. This will be a world away from using 'cool technology' like you see in Currys or the Gadget Show.

Or if your looking to just use or work with new technology and want something less technical and more business focused then look at a consultancy or sales role for a hardware company.
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Hey man take a look into Computer networking its a very rewarding and well payed carrer with really good progression as well. Also it is always on the forfront of technoalgy i.e. its is one of the first applications to use DDR4 memory for example.

If you want any more information drop me a PM
Hey Luke,

I can understand what you are saying about how unknowably broad, varied, and complex the technology industry is.

I've been working as a electronics / software engineer for a good few years now (ill-advised trips back to university aside), and I still look at power stations and heating control units and think 'somewhere, someone designed that. I've never met anyone who does that'.

I am assuming that you are going to university soon. May I suggest that you take choices that leave your options open. If you study computer science, you can decide that you want to work as a computational biology researcher when you graduate, but if you take a specialist degree like 'BSc computer biology researcher', it is relatively more difficult to decide that you really want to design robots.

I would focus less on the technology, and more on the way having a particular role feels.

Would you prefer to be creating the latest component technologies (e.g. a flexible screen for an iphone), or using components to build a new gadget?

Would you like to make the world better? If so, what would do that - better medicine, better renewable power, or showing social services how to use data analysis to identify vulnerable people?

One of my old professors spent her life trying to create technologies to help old people live alone safely. I felt that they would mean their children would pay them less attention, but my grandad is getting old now, and he wouldn't want to move out of his house somewhere safer.

Keep your options open, and as you learn more, try to get an idea of what you want to end up doing.

Oh, and the money is in finance, if you were wondering.

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