re: OT ballers, how long did it take for you to hit $100k+/yr?

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I graduated in 2016 in ME and still 100% do not believe you.

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Biggest EE payout from my class that im aware of was 80k

Kinda shocked if an ME made more than that in O&G during the downfall.

Excluding rental income I hit it at 33- a bit later than I would have wanted. However going from $100k to $200k took less than 3 years.

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What is the point of this, bragging points for those who do make 100k plus a year and shame those who don’t?

Let me tell you the beginning of wisdom. Money doesn’t make you a man. Being a real man makes you a man. Money cannot purchase that, nor can it bring wholeness into your life. You can be a money making machine and still be a very empty vessel. There are countless who do, and aren’t really happy in life as a result, or have traded more important things for attaining that money. It’s not the money that’s the problem. It’s just paper. It’s the human. Making a lot of money isn’t a bad thing in the slightest, but being consumed with it often skews our priorities. A better question might be ‘ Who is really truthfully content and happy with their life”.

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you are right, money don't make the man, but the man makes the money. and yea it can't buy happiness but it does buy freedom which is happiness.

28 when I became a software engineer

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You sure about that Baw

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Yes

You don’t have to believe it, but I have no reason to lie. I talked to many of my friends and that’s the range of offers we all saw while graduating. Companies will always hire talented people even during a downturn.

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Haha see my other reply. Graduated at 32 with lots of field experience and a few years design work. Went into industrial project management.

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Makes more sense. Civil is not the most lucrative, but one of the most stable.

EITs in their 20s are not making 6 digits. Usually when they get their PE they want 100K, but still no

Full disclose - I am not an engineer, just have links to a few firms.

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Makes more sense. Civil is not the most lucrative, but one of the most stable.

EITs in their 20s are not making 6 digits. Usually when they get their PE they want 100K, but still no

Full disclose - I am not an engineer, just have links to a few firms.

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Yep, everyone I graduated with all went into transportation with a few into consulting firms. The transportation people still don't make 70 almost 4 years out of school. Guy that works with me, his wife graduated with me, has passed the SE and still doesn't make near what he does. She gets pissed about it.

Even the ones that went the consulting route don't make over 80. The people that I graduated with that are doing well are a few mechanicals that have moved up very quickly in the plants as fixed equipment guys and now are superintendents. All the rest don't make what I made my second year regardless of discipline.


The people I see that make the most are those that learned to estimate and can sell on top of developing scopes. Also helps a ton if you can manage people and handle high level financials.