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Originally Posted by Jessobear
Dude, I hope you're not one of those guys who's in college and think that you're going to make bank the second you get your degree. Engineering and the dot com boom have nothing to do with eachother unless you're a network engineer.
I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree in 2000 and got my first job for $43,500. Believe it or not, I was one of the better paid graduates other than a couple guys at the top of the class who got super sweet gigs. Engineering tends to be a really conservative field and they tend to not throw money at people.
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i am not one of those guys in college, however i am a graduate who's been very grateful for what i've accomplished to be where i am today. while i was in college, i never thought i'd graduate and make bank. in fact, i thought quite the opposite, figuring id fall into the same trap that millions of others have, unemployment. however, hard work and networking gets you places...
anyway in reference to the engineering, excuse me, ive been too caught up in work lately. when i refer to an engineer i think software engineer, or hell even hardware engineer...and back in 1995, those guys were raking in the $$$. you had a few job offers waiting upon graduation, and could actually negotiate a salary, definitely not something thats common, if at all even around in today's job market.