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4673297 No.4673297[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>That feel when field engineer
>That feel when making $170,000 with no engineering degree

you mad school "engineeri" fags?

>> No.4673306

mildly
it doesn't bother me too much, what's a couple thousand in the hole when you're going to be making hundreds of thousands in the future?

>> No.4673307

>>4673297
Not really.
You're a worthless piece of shit making lots of a worthless currency that you will use on worthless things. You're probably trolling anyway.
So, no. Nobody cares about your shitty job doing nothing and making money except to condemn you and spit on your feet because you're a leech.

>> No.4673314

>>4673306
>mfw out of all those school engineers only my boss who has a Phd in Chemical engineering makes more money than me.

She is the Chief Engineer so its expected I guess.

>> No.4673319

>>4673314
You can stop lying already.
You don't have the expertise needed to be an engineer, so you're either a leech that pretends to do a job he can't do and makes worthless piles of a worthless currency that he's going to use on worthless things, or you're a troll that's trying just a bit too hard.
I think we all know which one seems more likely.

>> No.4673325

>Implying I didn't redesign our vapor recovery system

>Implying those school engineers don't come to me for help do to my real world experience

my jimmies remain unrustled

>> No.4673327

>>4673314
the way I see it, as long as I'm doing something I enjoy and making enough money to pay off my debt and live comfortably, that's enough for me

>> No.4673330

>>4673319
>implying oil companies will pay anyone $170,000 if they weren't productive and useful

stay butthurt faggot

>> No.4673335
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4673335

not mad
but then I'm naught but a humble geologist

>> No.4673337

>>4673319
>>4673307
hurr I passed cal III therefore I should make more money than you durr

>> No.4673341

>>4673335
stay humble my friend and you will go further than any of these school "engineers" .

>> No.4673359

whats a field engineer and howd u become one?

>> No.4673373

>>4673359
a technician.
you become one by applying for the job.

>> No.4673374

>>4673319
I'm not op but you are clearly mad as fuck.

>> No.4673386

>>4673337
THIS

Just cause you know math and physics doesn't mean you're productive.

Experience>baby math/physics knowledge

>> No.4673387

As an engineer making 300k a year(masters in business) I would hate to be a technician. So little job security. They are literally the first to get fired in a job.

>> No.4673389

Is salary really that big of a deal to people? I went into engineering because I enjoy solving problems in a scientific way, not for a large paycheck.

>> No.4673390

>first to fired

>22 years of field experience

I loled. You school children are too funny

>> No.4673395

>>4673390

This. No one in this thread has any idea what they are talking about.

>> No.4673396

>>4673389
> I went into engineering because I enjoy solving problems in a scientific way

you should have majored in real science then.

>> No.4673397

>>4673390
if I was over 40 and making less than 1/4 mil a year I'd probably shoot myself.

>> No.4673402

>>4673390
>close to 50
>on 4chan

daaaamn nigga

>> No.4673403

>>4673396

I was majoring in physics before I realized that I would enjoy something more applied, please go be hostile somewhere else.

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4673411

>>4673397
lmao so much underage in this post

>> No.4673416

>>4673411
nah, I'm 40.
I'm the geologist above.
I don't make less than 1/4 mil a year.

>> No.4673437

>>4673335
>2012
>no direct deposit

>> No.4673446

>>4673437
I do both.
I've made over ten grand more than that already this month from other clients, that's just the largest paper check I recieve on a regular basis.

I'm not certain why that particular company doesn't dd, though I don't mind having a check to show /sci/ every month.

>> No.4673451

>>4673446
you work for yourself? I call bullshit

>> No.4673457

>>4673451
I do.
call whatever you like.
have you heard of an employee geologist making more than $250k/year?
not likely.

>> No.4673535

>>4673457

Teach us your ways then. How did you end up working for yourself?

>> No.4673564

>>4673386
pretty much this

>> No.4673584

>>4673535
I found out how much independent contractors make and I hired on briefly with one to learn how to get into the field.

mostly in industry it's a matter of getting your name in front of purchasing agents and then doing good work for less than the next guy.

It's not really a matter of knowing the right people- you generally can't be friends with the client's buyer- but asking to have your name added to vendors lists and making sure you're in the phone book and online. If you are available and do good work you'll quickly find yourself very busy, depending on your field.

>> No.4673599

>>4673335

only a few people noticed this?

fuck, man. that's a lot of cash. most people spend their fucking lives working under shit conditions just to make that amount and you're taking it home in a fucking day.

god fucking damn. people at mcdonalds work full shifts just to get that a fucking year. taxes excluded.

i jelly as fuck.

>> No.4673598
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4673598

>work on oil rigs
>100k first year
>high school education

>150k second year

retire to cheap ass country, thailand, traps and cheap food everywhere

>> No.4673606

>>4673599
glad you like it.
that one was about 3 grand more than my usual.

>> No.4673615

>>4673606
jesus. what the fuck do you do?

any way that i, a math major, can make that type of cash?

>> No.4673616

Is it fun playing pretend on /sci/ OP?

I know quite a few people have this problem, and I think I've seen that cheque before lol

a janitor here apparently makes 10k a month and likes to brag about it

>> No.4673625

>>4673616
I am that janitor. technically I'm an industrial janitorial and environmental contractor for mining, but I claim several job titles.

I make more than 10 grand a month.

I have all the previous check copies I've posted here. Most were in the $16 grand range.

they're for environmental work at a mine I work on.

I'm not OP, I just stopped in to laugh at his little salary.

>> No.4673633

I know most of you are lying, but I still feel like shit because I can't even find a fucking internship, applied to dozens of places and didn't get shit.

How am I supposed to get a job? I'll probably never even break 80K even if I find one.

>> No.4673634

>field engineer

isn't that the guy who fixes the plumbing?

>> No.4673637

how the fuck do you get an job on an offshore rig, about to graduate as an engineer, dont even care if I work as an engineer, just want that rotational work schedule. Applied to over 100 places, havent heard back from one, willing to scrub toilets for all I care.

>> No.4673649

The laws on the US really are flexible. In my country you wouldn't be allowed to work almost anywhere without a degree, OP. Technicians have shitty salaries, in the ~30k range. You're really luck to live there, you know.

>> No.4673656

dont really care, so many engineers in my classes cheated their way through and wouldnt even know how to paint a wall if you asked them, some gear head or handy man can do most of their shit way better, engineers are only good if they actually went into engineering because they wanted to be engineers.

>> No.4673662

>>4673637
not that guy, but you're competing with tons of applicants with experience in industry.
I'd start lower, military experience is good, then follow with work as an operator or mechanic at a water treatment plant, or perhaps on a drilling crew in the gas fields, or even drilling wells or working construction.

something to get the relevant experience before moving into hard core mining or roughnecking.

>> No.4673674

>>4673662
ah ok, I have a candian citizenship, thinking about going to alberta and roughneck/floorhand for a few years. Should I just not mention I got an engineering degree? I can say I worked at my friends dads shop and he will vouch for me since I spent most of my free time working on cars.

>> No.4673677 [DELETED] 

>>4673674
also my main consern is how to I transition from land to offshore since its pretty different (i do have US passports)

>> No.4673681

>>4673674
>>4673674
also my main concern is how do I transition from land to offshore since its pretty different (i do have US passport)

>> No.4673690

>>4673674
hmm, that's a tough one. An employer is really going to wonder why you're applying below qualification. I wouldn't care personally, but I'm not sure how others would take it. It may not matter since a lot of positions are temporary anyways.

someone else may have better advice, I'd just admit to the degree and explain why I wanted to go get dirty.

>> No.4673691

>>4673625
I remember you. You posted in a thread where people were making fun of environmental engineers.

>> No.4673697

>>4673637
Go to your school's job fair. Guaranteed there will be a few oil companies there with info. Look at schlumberger and haliburton

>> No.4673710

>>4673691
Yep.
I've been here a while.
still making a shitload of money.

>> No.4673707

>>4673697
>>4673697
I live in NY, not a single mining or oil company comes here within a 5 state radius
I applied to halburton, the position description are very generic and the same all the time, updated my resume with some experience recently maybe it will get better
guess keep trying or start at the bottom bottom

>> No.4673724

>>4673702
You need to find their campus recruiting events/postings although if you are graduating now you might be too late. They made a posting on my schools job board and I applied and they wanted to interview me but by that time I decided not to. I got a 2.8 gpa in environmental engineering, if they wanted to interview me you should at least get an interview.

>> No.4673729

>>4673724
and by too late I mean you are gonna have to wait until fall when they start recruiting for the next round of graduates. Probably not the only way but that was my experience.

>> No.4673733

>>4673710
do you have your PE license?

>> No.4673750

>>4673729
ah ok thanks, well I am 100% certain they didnt come to my school so not going to wait for that, but Ill try maybe a smaller companies or apply on their website. Only one company really does interviews at my school, GE, and I didnt get that. Offshore is growing and baby boomers are retiring, hopefully most of these companies realize there are not that many 10+ years experience engineers and start internal training again.

>> No.4673762

>>4673733
no, my degree is in geology. If I need an engineer I have to hire one.

>> No.4673766 [DELETED] 

Money doesn't mather.
You'll all die miserable because your life didn't turn out how you'd imagined it be and if you could do it over, you would do it completely different. Every.single.time.
Nothing you'll ever do will mather.

>> No.4673773

>>4673750
You dont need experience. What these oil companies do is they hire engineers straight out of school, give them some training, pay them 80-100k a year and send them out to the field. Most of them quit after 1 year of work because they hate it so much. The few that stay on and can deal with the lifestyle make bank. You may not like it but you can get some experience doing something and make good money. Fuck I know a guy that is making bank just driving tankers of fracking fluid.

>> No.4673783

Money doesn't mather.
You'll all die miserable because your life didn't turn out how you had always dreamed it to be and if you could do it over, you would do it completely different. Every.single.time. no mather how many times you would do it over.
Nothing you'll ever do will mather.

>> No.4673791

>>4673783
it's actually pretty surprising how much money DOES mather.

it's not that having lots of money makes you happy, it's more like not having enough really sucks.

>> No.4673813

>>4673791
You will always have too few money if you try to buy yourself to hapiness with stuff you don't need.

Believe me, the amount of money you need and the amount of money you want are two very different things.