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Engineers Working Harder for Their Paycheck
Editorgirl35 writes to tell us Design News has posted their annual engineering salary survey. While it does offer encouraging results with salaries up a bit from last year it also shows that engineers are, on the average, doing a lot more to earn that paycheck including supervisory and budgetary functions. From the article: "Kody Baker, a 28-year-old mechanical engineer agrees, "Yes, we are doing far more than just designing products," he says. He's a project manager, manufacturing engineer, product designer, R&D engineer, test engineer, CAD systems specialist, CAD instructor/mentor, and more, juggling many roles in his job as a mechanical application engineer at Honeywell."
Since when is taking on new responsibilities and learning new skills that make yourself more marketable as a whole something to complain about? More and more companies are moving towards organic structures where cross functional skills are a necessity. If you want to be stuck in the same job forever then by all means turn down any offer to showcase your capabilities. In my opinion engineers are some of the most able-minded people to take on other roles in an organization. They possess the critical thinking and deductive skills to approach many types of problems. But given the historic and stereotypical personality (or lack thereof) of engineers I'm not sure I would want them giving too many sales pitches to my customers!
If this guy can tap dance also, he's hired!
But seriously folks, 28 year-old mechanical engineers are notorious for their ability to do everything.
This should be posted under Technology.
I have written embedded code for medical devices. So 'Software Engineer' is on my resume. But I've also qualfied the designs of all discrete electronic circuits.
I bristle when a recruiter or HR person tries to bracket me as 'IT.'
IT are the clerks of the data world.
here's a better question...
Who gets paid more than that(75-120k/year), but does less work for it, in the US.
We can skip acting and professional sports.
I wouldn't consider the mad hatter mad. Just reality impaired. He sure can make a mean cup of tea.
Another item to note - engineers are considered professionals and cannot join a union anyway!
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawnzer lee light," sang Miss Binney
Then you really AREN'T getting fucked :)
He tried to kill me with a forklift!