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51382886 No.51382886 [Reply] [Original]

>starting salaries, 2010: $60,000
>starting salaries, 2022: $60,000
>mid career salaries, 2010: $95,000
>mid career salaries, 2010: $97,000

>> No.51382931

>>51382886
sorry buddy but we don't need to give you a raise because rajeet will do it for cheap

>> No.51382961

>>51382886
Im a mechanical engineer i make 50k a year and support my family of 5
Keep seething that you failed out of school

>> No.51383030

>>51382961
>supporting 3 kids on 50k a year
what's it like living on poverty?

>> No.51383046

>>51382961
I deal poker and make 70k yearly bullshitting with degens and old people

>> No.51383083

>>51383046
Meaningless existence

>> No.51383096

>>51382886
College as a whole is a scam, but knowledge as a whole is not

>> No.51383102

>>51383083
I have a physics degree, know my way around a cnc machine, and can hack. I'm happy doing this

>> No.51383130
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51383130

>>51382886
Thats what you get when you allow women and brown people in to your field. No joke.

>> No.51383147

>>51383096
This

>> No.51383156

If you go to school for "mechanical engineering" is that all you can do? It's my senior year for business analytics & InfoSys right now and this summer I interned at a fortune 500 medical company doing marketing.

>> No.51383240

>>51382961
I make the same to sit in an office, watch movies on my phone and occasionally make calls.

>> No.51383259

Recycling engineer (no degree), 50k starting

>> No.51383299

>>51383240
Middle manager?

>> No.51383308

>>51382886
Just do a masters in computer science, im doing this soon

>> No.51383322

>>51382931
I made 90k last year sleeping in the shop as a union industrial electrician

>> No.51383331

>be me junior in undergrad ME
>get JUST’d by several classes
>switch to statistics
>get MS in analytics
>first job 71k
>second job 90k
>third job 130k
>fourth job 175k
>data science manager 212k fully remote from a lake house
>UNJUST’d
>feels good to fail at ME

>> No.51383336

>>51383322
based

>> No.51383345

>>51382961

Bro wtf I'm a janitor for an office building and I made 48k last year doing 37 hour weeks.

>> No.51383361

>>51382886
Is this the major where you go to shop class

>> No.51383394

>>51382886
That’s tough bro, they pay Applebee’s managers more than that

>> No.51383545

>>51382886
I got off to a rough start as fresh grad, making $42k in 2012. Now I make $120K, so a good improvement and not bad all things considered. But I wish I had studied almost anything else, the effort/pay ratio for ME is so laughably low. And I failed to develop social skills because I went to and engineering school and continued to be a socially awkward nerd through my mid 20s.

>> No.51383862

>computer science
>133k plus stocks and bonuses right out of college
my rent is $3442 though

>> No.51384167
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51384167

>>51383862
Literally half your take home pay in rent, what a fucking scam

>>51383545
120k after a decade of work is horrendous FYI, Mech e is awful

>>51383156
That’s the cope, mechanical engineering is “flexible”, in reality, you know, the real world, it’s not true at all lmfao

>> No.51384199

>>51384167
i feel like they rigged the system so that you pay at least half your income to have a roof over your head regardless of how much you make.

>> No.51384767

>>51382886
Starting ME salary is $74k right now. I'm right at 5 years in and make $120k with full WFH, started at $65k. I make an additional $25k a year or so moonlighting, and I think my business is about to get bought, so there is that.

ME isn't so bad really. Hopefully the green energy scam continues, I'm making bank off of this stuff.

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51384807

I worked at an engineering firm as a IT person. From what I understand the core problem is that the senior engineers would never retire - so you have guys who are at their post for 20 -30 years and would never give up their position or knowledge.

So you get these poor graduates who have no chance of moving into a senior position, with low pay and shitty working conditions (constantly out of state or at a jobsite). Why the fuck you would you do mechanical engineering bros?

>> No.51384844

>>51384807
This was correct in 2019 or so. Covid cleared out a shit load of boomers (they retired mostly). But yeah, they wouldn't share knowledge or retire. $145k a year and couldn't rotate a PDF kek. I actually knew one who would print out his emails to read them, no lie. It's definitely better now.

>> No.51384883

>>51384807
add on top of that that once they actually do retire, their position is terminated and they instead delegate all of their duties to a lower ranked employee for no increase in pay