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Computer Engineering Degree Most Valuable
Anonymous Squonk writes "CNN reports on the National Association of Colleges and Employers quarterly salary survey. Computer Engineering degree holders once again command the highest starting salaries at an average of $53,117, but Chemical Engineering is gaining rapidly, and Computer Science graduate's salaries are up 8.9% over the year before. Most of the other geek disciplines rank high on the list as well." While starting salaries for some degrees are up, the overall situation is not very good - indeed, your salary may be decreasing.
53k for a computer engineering degree and 32k for a psychology degree? if only it were true! I think they got those numbers wrong somehow, my sister who just got a mba in psychology earns twice my salary even though i've been working at IBM as a senior system administrator for 6 years.
seriously, 50k? where were you when i was looking for a job?
To think if I only made $53k out of college, I'd be taking a 50% paycut.
Good thing I didn't waste my time and energy on a useless college education.
No self respecting Comp. Sci. grad should accept an offer for $35k. The national average is clearly $48k.
And what - pray tell - are you going to do with that precious $13,000 you're stiffing your new employees out of?
I'm a 2000 man.
Let's everyone give a big round of applause to former President William Jefferson Clinton(D)!!!
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It amuses me greatly that all you CS majors have such a sense of entitlement. Newsflash: what you're doing is cake, and your lack of domain-specific knowledge makes you replacable. Aerospace engineers (like myself) and others know how to program in addition to their field of expertise, because, let's face it, programming is not difficult. So please get off your high horse.
Most people that fear being in business for themselves have good reason to do so.
/., a technical community. In my expirence most people who are good with technology are not good with business tasks.
There is never any good reason for fear.
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Your subjective experience is not represenative of reality.
I'm smart enough to run a buisness, I'm also smart enough to know that I wouldn't like it. (and I still was talked into it...)
You are cut out to work for someone else.
I notice you dodged my questions.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
Yeah. anybody with half a brain (comp. engies who think they can code) can code. That's why they invented visual basic, wizards and code generation. As for writing good code, soft. engies and CSI guys will be there to hold your hand, don't worry.
-- I'm not an asshole, just answering to one in his own language --