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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."
"Engineers earned an average of $73,000 last year," if you can find a job that pay the "average" salary, half of people that i know get far less than that.
Who do you call when your PC or workstation craps out? Who do you call when your measurements database is shitting and you don't know why?
I call IT and a DBA respectively. Then, if someone shits on the floor, I call a janitor.
You call IT. And we fix your problem, regardless of the fact that you're generally snotty, unappreciative, and antisocial. And you still look down on us.
Bullshit. I don't know you, and so long as the PCs get replaced, I don't worry or look down my nose.
Well, from one "IT" person to an "Engineer", get fucked. Wait, I forgot - that isn't possible.
Speak for yourself. Half the people on my team are married or getting married.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Actually, a drunken sailor spends all his money on alcohol and gambling, then, when he run out, takes a job on another ship to a new port. No debt involved, unless he was really bad at gambling.
Not to say that this doesn't accurately describe how i spend my money, but you might wanna watch your similes.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
and you have to deal with the TPS reports form all of the people under you
Don't forget about coming in on Saturday... Oh, and by the way, I'm going to have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too...
Actually, the mafia has a tiered compounding interest rate for all of their loans..I've seen their policy. IIRC, the rate chart looks something like this:
1 week: Veiled threat to kill your family.
2 weeks: Tiretreads of a '76 Buick LeSabre or 82' Cadillac Deville over your arm
3 weeks: A lead pipe to the knee cap or lower back - your choice
4 weeks: Gunshot wound to your shoulder, courtesy of Bambino "the Stallion" Carmatsi
5 weeks: A free face stabbing
The chart I saw only has listing for the five weeks, but I hear they have long-term plans as well.
Personally, for example, I am formally employed as a software engineer, but I read Slashdot far more than I did a few years back.
You might have, thought you were clever, using Anonymous Coward, but your use of 15 commas, in a single paragraph, no less, gives the game away.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.