Building computers as a job?
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Josh Weston
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For building computers, or for what Tom does, you really don't need any real qualifications. You need experience, and you need good communication skills. If you want to turn it into a business, you'll need good management skills, and taking a business course or something similar may prove beneficial.
andrewmchugh
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Barely any money in it. Something to do on the side of a 9-5.
jamesriley94
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Yeh, there isn't really enough money in doing the fully custom PCs, because you'd have to charge high prices for the work which is basically just to make the computer look pretty.
As said, you'd need a fair bit of experience and decent metal working skills if you were properly going down the modding route.
It is probably just best left as a hobby or a side to a 9-5 as mentioned...
Could always start a business to compliment it though - for example a small computer retailer or repair centre or something like that - or even some form of web design if you're good at that.
The thing is, the people who want custom computers can usually do it themselves, usually want to do it themselves, and usually have a budget where buying the best possible parts will come before paying someone else to tart up the case.
Also - if they do want it tarted up massively, they'll probably have had the ideas themselves about what they want, and the majority of the time will have some idea of how to go about doing it themselves...
All this would end up being a very small client base, where they'd be buying products that would be costing you a lot of time to modify and build - but where they wouldn't be prepared to spend the money you'd actually be wanting for it.
So yeh - you're pretty unlikely to make a career out of modding/building PCs. Get a real job and do it as a hobby
As said, you'd need a fair bit of experience and decent metal working skills if you were properly going down the modding route.
It is probably just best left as a hobby or a side to a 9-5 as mentioned...
Could always start a business to compliment it though - for example a small computer retailer or repair centre or something like that - or even some form of web design if you're good at that.
The thing is, the people who want custom computers can usually do it themselves, usually want to do it themselves, and usually have a budget where buying the best possible parts will come before paying someone else to tart up the case.
Also - if they do want it tarted up massively, they'll probably have had the ideas themselves about what they want, and the majority of the time will have some idea of how to go about doing it themselves...
All this would end up being a very small client base, where they'd be buying products that would be costing you a lot of time to modify and build - but where they wouldn't be prepared to spend the money you'd actually be wanting for it.
So yeh - you're pretty unlikely to make a career out of modding/building PCs. Get a real job and do it as a hobby
As most people have said there really isn't money in it, if you really wanted you could make a go at being a youtube personality as people do make a living off of that, but the number of people who do is a tiny fraction of the number of people who have tried. As most people have said it will probably just have to be a hobby which you do on the side of a 9-5 job.
Everyone is pretty spot on tbh. Its a hobby for 99.999% of people.
Only lucky mofo's like me actually make a living out of it but I do many other things as well. That and went through years of hardship and hard graft to get here.
I review parts, I dont really build PC's anymore unless its for something Im doing for OC3D
Only lucky mofo's like me actually make a living out of it but I do many other things as well. That and went through years of hardship and hard graft to get here.
I review parts, I dont really build PC's anymore unless its for something Im doing for OC3D
