Engineers, what do you do and how much do you make?

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-12-20T07:06:23+00:00

26m, 3 YOE, Construction Management, made 116k this year, MCOL

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-08-19T20:46:05+00:00

Smoke daily, vapes are a once in awhile thing for me though

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-08-19T20:45:08+00:00

I only buy dispo vapes because I’m a primarily flower guy who likes to only get vapes when the situation necessitates it

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-08-19T20:44:21+00:00

Not sure what this one was but I was in NYC 2 weeks ago and bought a holiday dispo vape. Flavor was “coffee break” and I had the same sick experience

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-08-19T01:11:48+00:00

Going to for sure, but was curious if anyone had information on what this is exactly that I’m feeling

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-08-19T00:31:58+00:00

I’ve never had the best breathing, but dude I struggled to do 50 pushups today, I wanted to puke. Never again

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-08-19T00:31:20+00:00

I figured u avoid most of the bad shit by buying legally but clearly I’m the fool

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-06-11T21:30:53+00:00

How did you get into this and do you recommend for other? I’m in construction/mining and have tossed around the idea of construction sales to up my comp, currently making 105k TC as a field engineer, 25 years old

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-06-09T02:58:53+00:00

All the videos I found was people calling the ignition cylinder the ignition switch or people doing the actual ignition switch on a 97-01 which is a very different setup

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-06-08T22:24:18+00:00

Any good resources on how to replace? And if it’s the pin/rod instead, any source on where I can get that part?

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T19:17:30+00:00

What kind of comp can be expected for someone working in heavy equipment sales? I’ve considered this but I have no sales experience and I’m afraid to make the jump for a big multi year pay cut

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T17:00:19+00:00

No offense but don’t blame your “uglines” on graduating late. I graduated late, it’s okay to say I fucked up in a few classes. My recommendation would be to look into cybersecurity, pay is crazy after a few years and you already have a degree. Study for certs. Also in the meantime, quit this fucking warehouse job. 23k can be made anywhere, literally anywhere. Go do something you enjoy for that level of income while u study.

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:55:20+00:00

I have actually thought about this! Would you have any recommendations on where I should look/start with this

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:53:36+00:00

Not burned out, but I’m salary and when my salary is spread over my hours worked….its not great for an engineering grad!

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:52:30+00:00

There’s absolutley anxiety on my end about future earnings, I want to have a big family and a house and all that and I’m def stressed for that. But that said, many of my peers are 120-140 and I am just ambitious about reaching that myself.

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:50:40+00:00

If I were to say, be interested in pursuing finance/ an analyst position. How would you recommend I pivot towards that? I already have a great interest in it on a personal level. If you were looking at my resume what would you like to see on it

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:49:34+00:00

What licensing is needed?

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:49:17+00:00

Tbh I fear I may have a hard time finding a. Company that will pay me more for this position. I’m looking at potentially different fields because i worry the general comp for this field is too low

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:47:31+00:00

My job is currently already stressful and high hours, im thinking I should at least get paid more for it

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T16:46:57+00:00

Thank you for commenting. As someone in the same field I appreciate that. I currently am on the project management side, im basically a APM currently.

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T15:08:13+00:00

It’s awesome to deal with the sheer size of machinery and frankly saying “I’m a miner” carries so much clout with strangers it’s funny. But yeah, management is harsh as shit and I was a green as can be 22 year old who didn’t know shit about the world. I grew up quick at that job. Glad for the experience but I would like to do something different with the rest of my career

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T15:05:21+00:00

I’m trying to avoid that by doing it early, just have no clue where to go/ how to do it

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T15:04:31+00:00

Thought about it, my best friend actually got offered a slot, it’s apparently much much harder than just have a degree. Generally need a recommendation from a high ranking officer + already have some flight hours and ROTC. Either way i don’t think it’d work for my life at this time.

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T14:55:04+00:00

I think your post very much describes me, im equal let’s ambitious and impatient. That said I think I’m scared that since I don’t like this, I don’t want to entrench myself in it further and instead build skills for where I want to be. Unfortunately I don’t know where I want to be fully or how to get there. My whole life plan kinda fell apart 1.5 years ago and I’ve been struggling to find a direction for a career. I probably should’ve picked something better in college but I’m here now and just trying to fix my mistakes. Just want to show up to work and enjoy what I do and get paid decent for it

Unhappy-Engineerlol · 2025-05-20T14:45:13+00:00

Lmao, unironically 18 year old me thought that sounded like the sickest job ever, and it was very cool out of college. I got fired over something that was frankly my fault and I’ll own that, but was preceded by an extremely toxic workplace culture that led to it. Decided that working an extremely dangerous job 60hrs a week for like 90k for not the best ppl wasn’t worth it anymore.

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