Digital Plumbers to Make $$$'s
We know that plumbers are rich men, now the BBC reports a new qualifiction of "Digital Plumber" for those wanting become even richer.
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The Home Technology Integration skills course, previously only available in the US, is designed to train people to set up and fix digital home networks.
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"The demand for the networked home is growing by leaps and bounds, and with it, the need for certified professionals - digital plumbers - to service this market,"
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It is hoped that the qualification will open up a new stream of jobs for engineers who currently work in technical support.
Sheesh, I have enough trouble getting tech support at the moment, without them all going away to become digital plumbers!
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plumbing supply house is richer than plumber
Taking clues from the plumbing business, let's not overlook how your local plumbing supply house made the owner a multi-millionaire. Plumbing hardware store owners made more than plumbers.
For one faucet I owned there was no 3 cent washer to replace, but a $42 "acqua stop" device. No kidding.
Now that NICs are $4 on the street, can we rename them "home media network enablers" and start jacking prices?
What's to plumb?
Surely all this stuff will be plug and play very very soon? Home consumer electronics really shouldn't require anything other than plugging in to be truly mass market?
heh. so are today's pipes... ;)
i can totally see a service like this becoming popular over the next 5 to 10 years. with all the new houses being built with 'servers' in the basement (much like water heaters, furnaces, etc.) someone is gonna have to debug and 'fix the pipes' when they screw up...
"qualifiction"
cornwall, I laughed when I read that - I'm pretty sure it was a simple typo....
But then again, I worked for a plumber. He's a really GOOD plumber (I won't let anyone else mess with the "pipes" on this house - and I KNOW what's what in plumbing....) but he's not wealthy. Not germane to your postulate though.
I have to agree with chrisgarrett - if you have a newish house (hereabouts anyway - and mine's not so isn't usable as example) you have all this tech built in, but all the developer does is run cable and jacks per blueprint. The developer hasn't a clue about it any more than he does about the garden-variety electrical (or plumbing!) - he subcontracts all the pieces-parts.
There WILL be a "virtual plumbing" niche very shortly, if there isn't one already.