7 Reasons Why You Are Not Successful In The Electronic Repair Field

Most of my monthly repair articles talks about electronic circuits, modification, solving electronics problem but this month article are a little bit different from others. This article talks about why you are not successful in electronic repair field. It’s a topic that cannot be neglected because if you want to become successful in electronic repair, you must have at least passed some of the information that I will mention it later.  Have you ever wandered why you are not good in electronic troubleshooting where else some of your colleagues or friends are so good in it? Do you want to be successful like them? Have you ever asked yourself why you are not successful? There must be some ingredients that they had that have made them so good in electronic repair. Here are the reasons:

1) You give up easily.

I have known some electronic repair newbie’s that gave up easily especially when they can’t solve certain electronic problems. They wanted to quit the repair job just because they could not locate the fault. One thing that I should let you know is that nothing comes easy in life. I’m sure you also don’t want to replace only the fuse every time you repair equipment because if the job is too easy and expected you would have not find it interesting anymore. Do you know that it is a blessing if the equipment is difficult to repair? Yes, here’s why:

You will put extra work to find out the cause of the problem. That means you will go to forum, refer to repair friends, visit internet, read electronic books and etc. Throughout this process although it uses up more time in fact you are gaining something in life. You will meet more forum members who answer your questions, understand more about repair websites and its contents, refresh back the electronic circuits that you have long time left it in your drawer and etc.

Giving up early is just an excuse of not willing to spend your extra time in improving yourself with some hard work. Look at the life of Donald Trump (the Apprentice TV show). He was declared bankruptcy in the year 1994 but now he is a billionaire! If he would have give up and concentrate on his failure rather then success, I believe he would have not been so famous today! Start to count your blessing (those equipment that you had successfully repaired) and focus on the solution rather then problem and this would make you to become better even in your life too. So stop giving up and concentrate on the solution.

2) You don’t network with others.

Stop being a lone ranger and start making friends with others that have the same field with yours. If you meet new people on a regular basis, sooner or later you will run into people that can help you out. I just called up one of my repair friend who is also an authorized service centre for a famous Monitor brand to ask how he was doing.  It’s a courtesy call and he was delighted to hear my voice and we chatted for quite sometime. Most of our conversations were electronics related subjects to update each others knowledge in the repair field.

I still could recall there was one time where I went into an electronic repair shop and introduced myself to the owner. The guy who runs the electronic repair shop was so happy and he asked me lots of electronic repair questions from spare parts till test equipment. He even dropped by my office and we had a great chat! Don’t be shy to approach them because there could people out there who are willing to lend a helping hand. Never try never know! You could gain lots of repair information when comes to discuss on the right topic! Not only that, I had a repair friend who offered me great prices (discounted price) on semiconductors. He bought in bulk and all were original semiconductors.

If you can’t start any conversation with stranger (other electronic repairer), I suggest you get some books that can help you out in conversation topic. I know it is not easy for you especially to some that have no experience in starting conversation with other people. You need people’s skill to do it otherwise after asking people “how are you” and then the conversation stopped. Learn from those books and I believe you could see the good result soon.

3) You don’t love what you do.

You are more likely to succeed if you are doing what you love. Usually if you are doing the things you love, you will tend to spend more time and put more effort into it. You don’t mind waste another hour in order to locate the fault in electronic problem. If you don’t have the passion for electronics, I guess there would be no fun and satisfaction. I have a friend who works as an accountant and graduated from overseas came to tell me that he regretted being an accountant. He told me he like practical things but somehow ended in dealing with figures (accounting). He is working for the sake of earning money to feed his family and not for what he really likes. Money is great, but everything shouldn’t revolve around it. He even asked me if he could attend my technical courses or not. Ask yourself if you really like electronic or not, otherwise it would be a waste of time because you can’t go any further without the passion to drive you along the journey.

4) You think you know everything.

The fact is you know very little. So instead of thinking you know everything, find someone who is better and smarter than you. With the humble attitude you have, at the end you will learn more things in life. Don’t be proud and arrogant, instead be willing to share with others and opportunity will comes to you. It could be contracts, joint venture, recommendation of customers by your repair friends and etc.

5) You don’t want to invest.

You can’t deny that in order to become successful in electronic repair you must invest in many things such as test equipment, books, magazine, and pay monthly subscription fees to join repair forum and etc. You can’t depend only on one analogue meter to help out in your electronic repair work. You will be losing out to your competitors that have wider range of test equipment. Test equipment is like helper to us and would tell us where the problem is. Although it is not necessary to have such expensive equipment like scope, CRT tester and etc at least you must have the ESR and the coil tester and also the digital and capacitance meter. Once you have enough money you then can invest in a much specialize test equipment. By the way, the latest test equipment that I bought was Blue ring tester and it is use to test on coils, transformer, flyback and even the horizontal yoke coils. Last year I bought the Smart Tweezer by Advance devices dot com and it is use to check on the SMD components.

One of my repair article mentioned about “Don’t wait for things to happen” –remember that? Instead you yourself have to make things happen. If you want to improve something in your life then invest in it. Don’t expect everything for free because if you invest from your hard earned money you will surely treasure it very much.

Why I know how to build websites, create eBooks, building blog and etc, this is because I invested for an internet marketing seminar held in the year of 1^st of November 2003. Why I’m telling you about the exact date? It is because this is the date that had changed my life that I could not forget it. The seminar had taught me many things about internet and from that day onward, I started to buy software’s, eBooks and etc to make myself good in building websites, internet marketing and etc. Assuming if I did not make that decision on that one fine day, I guess I would not be able to share what I’m sharing now because I don’t know how to build websites and you can’t subscribe to be ERG member-isn’t it? For your information, the noahtec dot com website was handled by a programmer and the programmer already resigned and I took over the project in the year of 2004 until now. If I don’t know how to handle a website then I guess I have to hire another programmer to take over the job.

I hope you don’t get bored with my story but what I’m sharing are from my real life experience and you got to think big when it comes to the word “Investment”. Change your mindset and thinking, instead of waiting for knowledge to drop into your mind why not invest in it and save you plenty of time so that you can become what you want to become be it in electronic repair, programmer, web designer, design engineer and etc.

6) You don’t have a good work ethic.

I’ve heard from my repair friends that their staffs were very lazy and not productive. In fact I too had experience before about technicians that were very lazy. What does it mean of not productive? They talked a lot while working, came late to work, and take forever to repair equipment! Instead of making profit for the company it has become a burden for the company! They have no commitment in their job and make lots of complaint but never delivered! If you are working for others and if you have no good work ethic don’t you think you can become successful when you open your own repair business in the future? You will surely carry all your bad working habits to your own company and even your staff could be like you too because you are not showing a good example to them! 

If you truly want to be successful in electronic repair then you have to learn to be productive! Commit yourself to the work and accomplished all the task given by your superior or etc. Proof to the company that you are willing to learn, work hard, and have perseverance and the company would surely treat you as an asset and when opportunity comes you are the first one to deserve it!

7) You think you can do everything

You have only 24 hours a day and sleeping takes up many hours of it. You just can’t be jack of all trade masters of none. I know that you want to become good in repair all kinds of electronic equipment (I mean all kinds) in the market but by specializing or focus on certain equipment, you will become more efficient and get more things done!

Although I got lots of email support from ERG members, if I’m not familiar with the subject I always tell them frankly and if possible I will channel them to the right websites or even forum.

Conclusion- I hope the above information will motivate you so that you can become successful in electronic repair. Use this tips in any field you like, it is not necessary must be in the electronic repair line. Remember, if you have decided what you really want, then go full swing and expect good result. If you sow a seed then expect it to grow and bear fruits otherwise there is no purpose of planting the seed. Similarly, by putting your effort, energy and time, you will definitely be successful and could see a better future ahead of you. Wishing you all the best!

Note: Some of the points that I have described could be subjective and I have no intention or whatsoever to offend anyone. This article is base from my own opinion and experience that I had went through and seen after involved more than 18 years in this electronic repairing line.