Apprentice electronics technician for industrial engineering, then I'll do the technician
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@Garfield204 Why a technician and not a master craftsman?
@Tilikum Mostly because of the fees for the master school and the technician is equivalent anyway.
And as I'm also currently thinking about doing the technical business management course afterwards, it's just an intermediate step anyway.
I don't have any money for the master school, I'm going to be a father in the fall (not quite planned) and I don't want to save for long after my apprenticeship when I'm in my late 20s either😅
Before that, I studied to become a 3D artist, but I don't see a long-term future in the job due to AI and the pay was also rather mediocre. That's why I started another apprenticeship in my mid-20s
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@Garfield204 I would definitely rather be a technician than a master craftsman. I am an electronics technician for automation technology. Trained and live in Germany. But I work in Switzerland for a large chemical company. My partner has a master's degree, everyone else around me did the technician's degree in 4 years alongside their job. This was also preferred by the companies than the master craftsman. None of us can complain about the salary. 100k€ a year.
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@Namewarschonweg Wow, that sounds solid, do you mean 100K without technician/master or with?
I was expecting around 70-80K€ as a technician/master😅
Thanks for the info, my company is in the energy supply sector and also somewhat larger, with four-digit employee numbers😁
Thanks for the input😁
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@Garfield204 I have a gross salary of €100k. But that's mainly because we all work in Switzerland. Those with a technician have a higher position and are more likely to make €110k-115k per year. That wouldn't be paid in Germany. I previously worked for a pharmaceutical company in Germany as a team leader in the electrical department and didn't earn that much there. We simply have that luxury here on the Swiss border
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