ryko1820
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Hello,
Otherwise, there are also assemblers/integrators who, in addition to maintaining (and thus repairing = keeping in working order), assemble PCs and configure them according to clients' needs. They install operating systems, software...
It's a bit like bespoke vs. ready-to-wear, with the maintainer being more specifically the "repairer" working in after-sales service (SAV). That said, the initial training is also maintenance technician even if the integrator/assembler aspect often implies (at least in the context of independent activity) a commercial notion that the "pure repairer" does not necessarily involve. The maintenance technician, semantically speaking, would be a bit like the mechanic vs. the integrator who would be the car dealer, selling options, the color (even though the same person is supposed to be able to perform any of these functions interchangeably in IT).
... But there are fewer and fewer assemblers, a trend that is not likely to improve, as assembled PCs have been supplanted by manufacturer PCs, then by laptops that are hardly customizable except at the factory, and now by mobiles which, increasingly powerful, offer (or will offer in the near future) many users all the features they used on a PC, with the advantage for manufacturers that they quickly become obsolete and that the whole is replaced rather than trying to upgrade components.
So if there are (still) "builders" at "top achat," as time goes on, there will be fewer, except for gamers, for a few clients more demanding in performance or scalability, and businesses (but this market will very likely also decline) which mainly source from manufacturers.
Overall, in the long term, there are and will be fewer and fewer PC users, so there will be less and less need for maintenance technicians (in IT).
Otherwise, there are systems administrators/engineers, a sort of "super" maintenance technicians, because the Cloud, the web, and businesses will still need a more or less centralized architecture (even if virtualized) and therefore servers a bit longer than PCs. But even in this area, the offer is shrinking, and the mainframes (supercomputers) of companies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are disappearing in favor of server farms, "datacenters." Google, for example, claims to no longer use mainframes in its architecture.
The market has changed so much this decade that even the famous Moore's law will soon not be respected, as chipmakers are trying to refocus their efforts on the more lucrative mobile market, consequently slowing investments in their quest for power through concentration and fineness of lithography, which anyway was running into a new technological hurdle.
In conclusion, given how things are evolving, I don't believe this is a field with a future, unless one has a bachelor's degree of 4/5 and that in the medium term (10, maybe 20 years, more???), a maintenance technician in IT will have benefited from evolving if they don't want to struggle to find work. In France, unless there are opportunities (which will necessarily be the case for very few of them), evolving will often mean changing fields for equally unqualified jobs.
I know some who have become carpenters or landscapers.
Feel free to correct me if I'm saying too much nonsense...
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