re: The Decision To Return For BSME At 30

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Your first 5 years out of college, expect to make around 75k, and with 5 years in you can make it up to 100k.

Mechanical is no joke at LSU. I’d also consider Lafayette as it might be easier and you will stand out with a higher GPA. Nobody gives a frick where your degree is from as long as it’s ABET and you have above a 3.0, preferably 3.2.

Being 30, get your PE afterwards ASAP. You’ll stand out later in your career.

Don’t believe the bullshite, LSU does not have any better ME program than other schools. The labs might be shinier and better marketing material, but you are just $$$ to LSU. You’re going to teach yourself the material wherever you go.

The best advice I can give you is expect nothing from the teachers and learn everything yourself. If you find one professor that might actually try to give a frick, that’s lagniappe. Do all the HW problems twice.

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This is not 100% true. I had experience like the op and was making much more than your figures after 2 years. You arent far off and everything else is 100% true.

My question to the OP is, why not get a different degree to get on in Maintenance at a plant?

I worked for a large chemical company and benefits and pay are awesome but maintenance supervisors and planners with no degree make 6 figures most years after overtime and bonus. If you get a degree and are able to become a superintendent, they make as much or more than many engineers do, granted most of the time those positions are filled with MEs.

It just seems like starting at 30 and doing only 9 hours a semester is going to cost too much and the return is not there until you have 20 years max left in your career.

I dont want to discourage you going back at 27 was the best decision I have made in my life, outside of marrying my wife. It can be done and I am a testament to that.

Also you dont need the degree from LSU and you dont have to have a 4.0 or hell even a 3.0. It helps to have that for the first job, after that its all about work ethic and ability to work with others once in the door. After your first job, nobody gives a shite about what your GPA was or even where you went to school.