after 12 years i finally passed physics, im almost an engineer :)

[swiss]

Originally Posted by He111

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We'll take anyone .. I MEAN ANYONE!! (i'm not joking - Western Australia - Northen Territory - Queensland (not to be confused with darlinghurst in Sydney) - are all deperate for any form of engineering qualitications that can be transfered into the mining industry. A ships engineer can work on LNG ships .. with Aussie union wages .. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ .. but it won't last forever ..
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Just checked, indeed $80k directly from university - here it's $75.

I know a few construction engineers, guess I should tell them...
Roo-country has pretty high rep in Switzerland.

[Outlaw]

Originally Posted by swiss

Just checked, indeed $80k directly from university - here it's $75.

I know a few construction engineers, guess I should tell them...
Roo-country has pretty high rep in Switzerland.

The engineering field is coming back in the US as well. Rates plummeted for new hires and flattened out for those that managed to stay billable during the slump but they are coming back now. I even got a small raise a few months ago and now I'm doing 50 hour weeks again so life is good. That Ferrari might not be as far out in the future as I thought!

New engineering graduates are coming in at decent rates although not as good as it was a couple of years before the slump. Back then a new grad process engineer could start at $37 and hour (USD)!

--Outlaw.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

New engineering graduates are coming in at decent rates although not as good as it was a couple of years before the slump. Back then a new grad process engineer could start at $37 and hour (USD)!

--Outlaw.

Yea I looked at engineers rates for a fresh engineer and they were between 20 and 37k GBP. Some of the more experience Engineers was around 50 to 75k GBP.

Im hoping the renewable energy sector will be quite prospuros in the future so Im going with that one. Plus there must be some reward in making enrgy cleanly.

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

The engineering field is coming back in the US as well. Rates plummeted for new hires and flattened out for those that managed to stay billable during the slump but they are coming back now. I even got a small raise a few months ago and now I'm doing 50 hour weeks again so life is good. That Ferrari might not be as far out in the future as I thought!

New engineering graduates are coming in at decent rates although not as good as it was a couple of years before the slump. Back then a new grad process engineer could start at $37 and hour (USD)!

--Outlaw.

It's catastrophic here in Fr. Young Eng are happy if they can start at 2500$ net per month. Passing 4500$ it become really difficult to get an increase.

they even employ tons of unpaid students to lower dev cost giving them (very boring) design project, even on a CAD stations with a full access to the design Model ! (When I started myself on CATIA V4 we had numerous security check implemented)

And then they say to the share holders that they are fighting hard to keep the program on track, budget and schedule. BS! Everybody know since Ford that attention is a function of the worker's motivation. And the lack of attention cost a lot at this level of responsibility. A very basic rule of management dump down the flush just to cut cost even more when we are already eating our own tail like a snake.

There is nothing good that way.

But still engineering is a rewarding job. Hold on !