- Jul 17, 2002
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Hey all, I wanted to post this because I'm crazy excited right now and wanted to share with the ATOT crew 
As some of you might know I graduated in 2005 as a mechanical engineer and instead of becoming some autocad design bitch, I decided to go into management. That's where I wanted to go down the road so I started early as an engineering/maintenance supervisor in manufacturing (can't be specific with details). Starting salary was $56k which was still much higher than my friends who were starting at $38-45k.
So I've really been able to show my stuff the last couple years with several million in cost savings and they have been compensating me well; increasing my salary a couple thousand every so often. As of March of this year I have been making $63k, keep in mind I am still only 24 living in a town of 50,000 people where cost of living is nothing. Today I was offered the department manager position with 20 direct reports, a budget of over $1m dollars and a progressive pay increase. I will start at $70k and will move to $85k in 12-24months depending on performance based salary increases. Woot!
Keep in mind these are Canuck dollars, not those useless greenbacks
In a year my rent will represent less than 10% of my gross income.
Looks like I am well on my way of hitting $80k before I'm 30. Might happen before I'm 27!
oh and other things in my life are going well too
As some of you might know I graduated in 2005 as a mechanical engineer and instead of becoming some autocad design bitch, I decided to go into management. That's where I wanted to go down the road so I started early as an engineering/maintenance supervisor in manufacturing (can't be specific with details). Starting salary was $56k which was still much higher than my friends who were starting at $38-45k.
So I've really been able to show my stuff the last couple years with several million in cost savings and they have been compensating me well; increasing my salary a couple thousand every so often. As of March of this year I have been making $63k, keep in mind I am still only 24 living in a town of 50,000 people where cost of living is nothing. Today I was offered the department manager position with 20 direct reports, a budget of over $1m dollars and a progressive pay increase. I will start at $70k and will move to $85k in 12-24months depending on performance based salary increases. Woot!
Keep in mind these are Canuck dollars, not those useless greenbacks
In a year my rent will represent less than 10% of my gross income.
Looks like I am well on my way of hitting $80k before I'm 30. Might happen before I'm 27!
oh and other things in my life are going well too
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