Engineers and Engineering Careers

Describes the working life of an engineer. Engineering Careers are among the lowest paid and the least secure. Please comment...

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[Cubatraveler]

Unfortunately many things said in this video are true. Business majors will generally make more than engineers withing a few years after graduation. Also, a two year nursing diploma from a community college gets better pay than a four year university engineering degree. How do I know? Because it happened in my own family. Engineering salaries top out quickly and then flatline for decades. Engineers also have the least job security of all four year graduates, thanks to NAFTA.

[Careersinengineering]

@Cubatraveler

Trust me, it is a 5 year degree not a 4 year.

I had to take 145 credits to get the degree, they tell you it is 4 years but you end up with 5 or even 6 (for some friends).

Look, engineering: Do Not Study Engineering. If you are smart, go to the financial or medical field.

And please, anything the has the name engineer on it, will not make you any money.

[pckcjkn]

I am an Engineering Manager at a Nuclear Power plant. I make over 150k/yr. My job is very challenging, rewarding, and yeah, i work for a living (~60 hrs a week). I know others that also make very good money doing other careers but, I actually enjoy my job and many of the others I know do not. I know people that are contract engineers that do as well or better than I, that job requires a lot of travel. We start new engineers at 60k and pay senior engineers over 100k.

[Careersinengineering]

@pckcjkn

Have you ever considered, why a pharmacist gets paid more than you selling products over that counters to people.

You are one of the very few lucky who is at the 150 K mark. The average pay : 70-80K Yes the start is 60K.

You deserve 300K not 150K. Your job is more technical than a doctor or a pharmacist.

Yet again, at 150K, you make enough not to care for the money, I have to care for the money, I don't make enough, not for the life that I paid tuition and 7 year college in.

[Careersinengineering]

@Careersinengineering

Engineers and Doctors learn the same 5 years of hard science, engineers do ever learn harder classes (I have friends who are doctors and I read their books).

Engineers endup with 50-60 K pay, doctors end up with 50-60 pay at their residence program.

Engineers end up with 80K pay after 5 years, doctors end up with 300K pay after 5 years.

Doctors do not study harder than engineers, 4 year med and they are out of school to making money while taking residence.

[Careersinengineering]

@izthebutcher

I am not saying it is a bad Job, I am just saying engineers don't make money as being with a technical degree. And please don't mention the 4 years, engineering is 5 years. Specially registered engineers have to learn all their life + if you have a masters degree, thats 7 years dude with life term education to maintain your license.

I is so funny that in engineering, if you have a license, you get paid less, given that you have a shortage of engineers (as they say), bad bad job.

[izthebutcher]

doctors, and nurses get fired two, lawyers have slow months or loose there jobs at large firms, no job is free of the ever changing nature of the times, get over it. the fact is you are complaining that your degree only makes you tens of thousands of dollars more then the national average, and based on YOUR personal experience YOU think its a bad job. go dig a ditch then tell me being an engineer is a bad job, if you are in it for money, you never were an engineer.

[djwilliamt]

With luck anybody with any degree can get a high and secure paying job. Engineers need 4 years of study while doctors need atleast 8 yrs. Its only logic that they deserve more pay. Nonetheless, I love the fact that I graduated with an Engineering degree because its incredibly prestigous and I see it when i get asked what I studied for. Doctors dont study medicine for the money thats for sure they study it because the want to make a differenc in that way.

[djwilliamt]

I also have a friend who just graduated from med school but he is well in debt with 600K. He makes around $4K a month and can barely keep up with the debt payments. What im trying to say is that it really comes down to luck and connections. Lawyers are out of the question because Lawyers are far too many most of my friends that went to law school are all working in fast food restaurants and i wish i was kidding because i wanted to take that route.

[djwilliamt]

I graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering in January. I am currently working as an intern for an energy company in my city. However, I have received some job offers but were out of state. Unfortunately, I do not want to relocate but if worse comes to worse i have no other choice. From what I've seen is that the top engineers in the company make around 100K a year and most make around 85K with a 5 years experience. My manager makes 175K I know this because I take care of the time reports

[Vexxen21]

@Careersinengineering I agree that Med school is harder then Engineering. Yes, Engineer schooling is frikken brutal. We have to learn complex systems and create our own. Med students do this too. Plus tons of memorization, emotional and metal stress (someones life is in your hands - emerg situations) and it takes longer then Eng school = more debt. They are comparable to eachother in difficulty. Each are vital and difficult. Can we agree that Med school AND Eng school are the hardest of all?