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Is a civil engineer a good job? |
What sort of salary would you be expecting to get? You are not going to make 70k to 90k in Civil Engineering unless you are an owner or very high up in the company but most of those higher up positions are taken by people that have been in Civil Engineering for at least 15 to 20 years or live in an area with very high cost of living. http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#earni... Civil Engineers are the lowest paid engineers out there. I would suggest you go into Mechanical or Materials Engineering. 21k a year start, the sky is the limit if you run a company, I work as a junior draughstman for a Civ eng firm, and I love it the problem solving and creativity is great. When you see a building you know intricately on paper become a reality its a truly superb feeling. it all depends on how ud you are and the college from which u do your graduation.. civil engineers earn handsome amounts nowadays and those who go in for structures earn a lot.. you can be looking at amts in excess of 20k and even upto 30k in good firms Hmm Man U. we speak again. Are you being a bit Walter Mitty ? If you have your Doctorate, then you should know what the going rate is world-wide. I have a humble M.Sc, in the Electrical Power side of things, and find design of speed bumps and public bogs etc a tad boring, but each to their own. Is it sewage or sewerage I asked my uncivil Engineer one day, who launched into great detail about the ghastly subject. Ah, foudations fot my new power station were fine, and I could not peaise him more, but one his lads took the bung out of a 20,000 gallon deisel tank for inspection, knocked himself drenched don the remote mountan-side, cost a Shell/BP emergency re-fill costing me R.O. 2000, or about 拢 3800. So much for civil engineering. Sorry, I do not wish to sound offensive if you are indeed a PH.d, indeed GP's, called doctors only have an honorary title. I won't get out of bed in the UK for less than 拢1000 a week. And if I say so myself, worth every darn penny of it. In the Mid-East, nearly double that. So horses for courses, and all the best. Bob. |
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