Ouch!!! Wet rates keep going up!

Engineering is a funny profession though - I believe engineers are
vastly underpaid compared to their professional counterparts (lawyers,
medical professionals, etc.). I eventually decided the pay wasn't
good enough to continue doing something that involved sitting in front
of a computer and going to meetings for 9+hrs/day - now I'm a full
time CFI (and soon to be cargo pilot) and love my job. The pay is a
little worse, but not by that much (surprisingly). Will I ever go
back into engineering? Probably not unless I can't pass my medical or
the pay is substantially increased (by at least 2x).- Hide quoted text -


The reason why doctors and lawyers command better pay is simple: they
have mandatory licensing.

If you don't get AMA certified or pass the board you can't work.
Engineering licensing is voluntary and only required if you want to
hang out your own shingle. You don't have to be licensed to work for
a corporation.

Dean

wrote:
Engineering is a funny profession though - I believe engineers are
vastly underpaid compared to their professional counterparts (lawyers,
medical professionals, etc.). I eventually decided the pay wasn't
good enough to continue doing something that involved sitting in front
of a computer and going to meetings for 9+hrs/day - now I'm a full
time CFI (and soon to be cargo pilot) and love my job. The pay is a
little worse, but not by that much (surprisingly). Will I ever go
back into engineering? Probably not unless I can't pass my medical or
the pay is substantially increased (by at least 2x).- Hide quoted text -


The reason why doctors and lawyers command better pay is simple: they
have mandatory licensing.

If you don't get AMA certified or pass the board you can't work.
Engineering licensing is voluntary and only required if you want to
hang out your own shingle. You don't have to be licensed to work for
a corporation.

Do corporate lawyers have to be licensed? I assume they do, but don't
know for sure.

Matt

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Do corporate lawyers have to be licensed? I assume they do, but don't
know for sure.

Yes, they still have to pass the bar.

On Sep 23, 9:31 pm, wrote:
Engineering is a funny profession though - I believe engineers are
vastly underpaid compared to their professional counterparts (lawyers,
medical professionals, etc.). I eventually decided the pay wasn't
good enough to continue doing something that involved sitting in front
of a computer and going to meetings for 9+hrs/day - now I'm a full
time CFI (and soon to be cargo pilot) and love my job. The pay is a
little worse, but not by that much (surprisingly). Will I ever go
back into engineering? Probably not unless I can't pass my medical or
the pay is substantially increased (by at least 2x).- Hide quoted text -

The reason why doctors and lawyers command better pay is simple: they
have mandatory licensing.

If you don't get AMA certified or pass the board you can't work.
Engineering licensing is voluntary and only required if you want to
hang out your own shingle. You don't have to be licensed to work for
a corporation.

Dean

True to some extent... But when I was working in the power industry,
it was pretty much expected that you have your EIT/FE and were working
towards your PE (regardless of one being EE, ME, or CE). Civil
engineers are almost always required to have professional licensing in
the form of the PE exam, yet they are typically on the lowest end of
the engineering pay scale.