re: Engineering Career Advice - Mechanical, Chemical, Petroleum

I was cement for 2 years. 60K base, 5K signing, 10K training completion. After training, there were no bonuses except for promotion. Day rates were 0 for ATP, 45 for TP, and 75 for STP. I don't know if the job titles are the same for slum burger. 2.5% raises across the board, every year. A guy that had been there for 4 years was catching every job he could to crack 100K and didn't clear it. This was in the GOM, which is cush compared to other regions, but the rates were much less.

I'm pretty sure MWD/LWD, wireline, perf, and PE got paid more though.

It really is working for peanuts though compared to the potential of any other engineering path.