re: OT engineers -- How much should you ask for with starting pay

Let them offer you first, and especially don't bring it up on your first interview.

So, what happens if you have an emergency?

All BS aside, that's how this works for a college grad with no leverage.

You take the one that will offer you a comfortable living with the best chance to learn quick. Don't go for the easy money unless you want to keep making that money. Take the challenge and succeed and the money will come.

Eta: with a jag degree, excelling on the job will be paramount. Your education won't carry weight anywhere. You have to perform at a level that exceeds your peers performance.

You're getting a masters at the MIT of the SWAC, so you have all the bargaining chips. Make them pay you before you even interview.

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So should I ask for $75000 for my first position or is that being too ambitious.

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Are you a P.E.?

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If this is his first position, probably not.

Exxon and other O&G giants may be offering 75K+, but I doubt anyone else will do so.

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I felt like I had more money making 70k than I do now making very close to double that. It's easy to get your check spread thin with 401k, insurance, house note, kids, etc. Every tie I got a raise, it went to retirement and savings. But that didn't stop me from wanting a nicer house, better cars, etc. All of a sudden you feel broke (even though you're actually saving the money).

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aint that the truth.. Even though when you say 100K it might sound like a lot, but in todays world it really doesn't go that far.

$10 for an internship? Good lord that is piss poor. I would have laughed at them on the spot

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That's utter BS, unless by easy you mean being stupid with your money.

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I wasn't really too stupid with money but I went finished college after 10 years as a single Marine with no regard for jack shite and a newish family. I found out the hard way that making 71K in Richmond, Ca was not the same as making 71K in Foley, Al. We made it work but times were really tight until we got everything figured out. A couple of other students got paid about the same as me to work in Mobile and BR but I got the only Chevron offer at a time when no one was hiring new process engineers and was glad for that.