[quote=deadzone][quote=flu][quote=deadzone]Sure Engineering may not be as lucrative as it once was, thanks to the overall threat of outsourcing/H1B. But, still beats the pants off of most professions for pay potential on average doesn’t it?[/quote]
Starting out, maybe. Over the life of the profession, most definitely not, unless again you hit it with the stock options/RSU grants.
I don’t see many single income earnings engineers without stock options able to afford to live in carmel valley, unless they are a dual income family.
I do see plenty of dentists, doctors, lawyers, self-employed business folks, or enigineers with side businesses or that dabbled into other non-engineering-job related things that supplemented their income though…
.Just saying.[/quote]
You are just frustrated that your neighbors can afford to drive better cars than you. But you need to step back and look at the big picture, you are better off than 99% of the world. Your thinking is typical of the American consumerism culture, always wanting/needing to have more material goods than your neighbor. You need to take a trip to some normal city in the Midwest or East Coast, it will make you feel better about your lot in life.[/quote]
Actually, I’m not frustrated at all. Actually, if I wanted to live how 75% of the american population lives, I could afford to drive what really wanted too…on borrowed money. But I do like having money in my bank account so if tomorrow I do get outsourced, It wouldn’t make a damn difference, except being able to qualify for another refinance probably, and more of a pride thing of holy shit, I finally got laid off after so many+ years working in the field…..lol… Then again, I can always wait for stated income loans to come back…ha!
My neighbors drive equally POS cars too for a differentreason. They have 3-4 kids they have to feed and send to college… So they can take their $40k/year per kid and multiply that by 4 and then multiply that by 3 or 4….I only got 1 …Ha!
