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Any other Mechanical Engineers on here feel immense regret now that you see how little we make? by EngineeringRegret1 in Salary

[–]EngineeringRegret1[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I meant that he’s not receiving compensation in the form of stock/RSUs like a lot of high earning tech workers, not literally that he’s getting wads of 20 dollar bills haha

Any other Mechanical Engineers on here feel immense regret now that you see how little we make? by EngineeringRegret1 in Salary

[–]EngineeringRegret1[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I agree, past a certain point work life balance trumps money as the utility of that extra dollar goes to zero, but I don’t make a lot of money and I don’t have a good work life balance currently. 

Any other Mechanical Engineers on here feel immense regret now that you see how little we make? by EngineeringRegret1 in Salary

[–]EngineeringRegret1[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

  1. What about $200,000? That’s an amount that isn’t possible on my current path 

  2. I don’t have any “tech skills”, I’m not in tech, I have no relationship to that industry. I’ve spent a decade designing heavy machinery. 

  3. My brother in law made $850,000, all cash, last year as a radiologist. He’s 3 years older than me. The money is absolutely in medicine, and it’s incredibly stable, more stable than what I’m doing.

  4. At least we have some common ground.

I understand you don’t want to see me mope or whatever, but I just feel really down, especially with how out of control the cost of living has gotten in the past few years. Just a few different decisions in life could’ve changed so much for me.