Hey guys I am 34 yrs old and from the Caribbean, Trinidad and I made some poor decisions in life that led me doing a very low end job but recently I saved up my money and paid in full cash $2000 USD at the most reputable HVAC school I could find where I then completed a full 1 year HVACR course and am waiting on my certificate so I could get work in a company, while I don't have money for a vehicle I do have some cash to buy some stuff on Amazon I am trying to recover from some poorly made decisions in life that has led me to doing a crappy job and a job that I really hate. I am wondering perhaps learning some electronic repair would be good as my new job will involve a lot of electrical because my teacher said 90% of issues in a AC system is electrical these days and I am thinking maybe it will help me with inverter AC systems?
I used to build websites using CMS until that business died and I built and fixed desktop PC for many years until that died and everybody switched to tablets now, don't want to waste my time and investment on something like that again, I heard electronics nowadays are built to throw away and many can't be repaired. Not sure if this is true or not but where I live in my country most people look to get things repaired rather than throw away. The issue is its very hard to find electronic repair people to do the job in this country. Probably because people just bring old shit and leave it by you and never return for it when they hear the price to repair said items.
I can invest about $130 USD on Amazon so the first thing I bought is a Multi Meter with capacitance readings and clamp for $22 it got good reviews, the other thing I am putting in my cart is a soldering iron but not sure which is a good one I found one for $10 maybe its good for a beginner. Not sure how to go about doing this, do I buy a Arduino kit? do I buy a book? do I instead download a free book?
Will this allow me to fix Lasco Fan Motors and stuff? I think I could make money fixing fans, I learned in my HVAC course how to wire capacitors to fan motors finding common start and run wires etc. I don't want my recently acquired knowledge to diminish, would like to expand and become very competitive and impressive for future employers etc
Am hoping I am not too old for this field I might probably learn a second language "Spanish" since we have a mass influx of Venezuelans in this country as they are fleeing Venezuela right now. I am trying to turn around my life since finding employment these days is pretty hard and low skilled jobs are very very bad in my experience and not something I want to do for long.
I guess TLDR I am just trying to find the best way to utilize my money wisely and continue furthering myself with what is going to benefit me the most so I won't ever reach to this situation again where I end up working the lowest job for the smallest money trying to get back on my feet.
I used to build websites using CMS until that business died and I built and fixed desktop PC for many years until that died and everybody switched to tablets now, don't want to waste my time and investment on something like that again, I heard electronics nowadays are built to throw away and many can't be repaired. Not sure if this is true or not but where I live in my country most people look to get things repaired rather than throw away. The issue is its very hard to find electronic repair people to do the job in this country. Probably because people just bring old shit and leave it by you and never return for it when they hear the price to repair said items.
I can invest about $130 USD on Amazon so the first thing I bought is a Multi Meter with capacitance readings and clamp for $22 it got good reviews, the other thing I am putting in my cart is a soldering iron but not sure which is a good one I found one for $10 maybe its good for a beginner. Not sure how to go about doing this, do I buy a Arduino kit? do I buy a book? do I instead download a free book?
Will this allow me to fix Lasco Fan Motors and stuff? I think I could make money fixing fans, I learned in my HVAC course how to wire capacitors to fan motors finding common start and run wires etc. I don't want my recently acquired knowledge to diminish, would like to expand and become very competitive and impressive for future employers etc
Am hoping I am not too old for this field I might probably learn a second language "Spanish" since we have a mass influx of Venezuelans in this country as they are fleeing Venezuela right now. I am trying to turn around my life since finding employment these days is pretty hard and low skilled jobs are very very bad in my experience and not something I want to do for long.
I guess TLDR I am just trying to find the best way to utilize my money wisely and continue furthering myself with what is going to benefit me the most so I won't ever reach to this situation again where I end up working the lowest job for the smallest money trying to get back on my feet.