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Best-paying college major: engineering

I would have never been surprised at that. It's a very hard major and they're very much in demand. I hate math though so I would never want to do that.
 
That number would be lower if you took out the offers from the large defense contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup-Gruman, etc.
 
her209 said:
That number would be lower if you took out the offers from the large defense contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc.
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Why would you though? They still represent real opportunities. Regardless the picture is fairly similar here where there is virtually no "defense" spending.
 
I thought long and hard about going into engineering. Decided against it after seeing how it turned out for my father (Electrical/mechanical engineer). Basically, after you turn 45 or older, you're likely out of work, and getting new positions becomes exponentially harder the older you get. Age discrimination is a huge issue in engineering.

So I've decided to shoot for actuary.
 
Jaepheth said:
I thought long and hard about going into engineering. Decided against it after seeing how it turned out for my father (Electrical/mechanical engineer). Basically, after you turn 45 or older, you're likely out of work, and getting new positions becomes exponentially harder the older you get. Age discrimination is a huge issue in engineering.

So I've decided to shoot for actuary.
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Wow, really?
Geez, I'd love it if we had a "senior engineer" sort where I work, someone who was in industry longer than I've been alive. College doesn't teach experience.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
Why would you though? They still represent real opportunities. Regardless the picture is fairly similar here where there is virtually no "defense" spending.
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The defense industry creates demand where there would be none. Unless the company makes products that are needed by civilians such as Boeing planes, they wouldn't exist, or be much smaller. That means there'd be a large glut of engineers driving salaries lower.
 
her209 said:
That number would be lower if you took out the offers from the large defense contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup-Gruman, etc.
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I had 2 good friends who graduated and worked within 10 miles of me in the Silicon Valley. Both were offered $60k+. From Lockheed and Northrup. But that's not impressive. I got paid about the same at a startup.

My friends at Cisco and Apple got paid a LOT more. You can negotiate a lot with companies like Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco from what I hear.

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Not MBA/Finance/Business related major? I'm a little surprised.
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As an undergrad, you're not qualified for jack shit. MBA is a graduate degree for that reason. People who do undergrad business somewhat confuse me. You still have to start out where the econ majors go into, like accounting, accountancy, audit, etc. From what I know my friends at KPMG got offered sub $60k. But then again KPMG is the bottom of the big 4, so they probably got a little better from firms like EY, etc.
 
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Yup. i have a bunch of ME friends with offers around the 68 mark. Job fair is this week so we'll see if I can net anything.
 
Jeff7 said:
Wow, really?
Geez, I'd love it if we had a "senior engineer" sort where I work, someone who was in industry longer than I've been alive. College doesn't teach experience.
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I think my engineering office has maybe 3 people younger than 60., and I'm one of them. Not even joking. The rest are people who have been doing this for a long ass time and know everything there is to know about this particular type of engineering work.
 
ShawnD1 said:
I think my engineering office has maybe 3 people younger than 60., and I'm one of them. Not even joking. The rest are people who have been doing this for a long ass time and know everything there is to know about this particular type of engineering work.
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Avg age at my workplace is 49, and that's after trying to hire a lot of young engineers in the past few years.
 
Money for nothing and your chicks for free.

That's why I'm an Engineer 🙂
 
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her209 said:
That number would be lower if you took out the offers from the large defense contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup-Gruman, etc.
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I'd love to work for one of them. Fortunately they are all looking for (and hiring) people in my field of study. Hopefully they will be in a few years when I graduate.

Aero Engineering ftw
 
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