Im currently a senior @ East Tennesse State University. My major is Exercise Science. I hope to graduate in December and go to Physical Therapy school afterwards. The hospital here is hiring new PT grads at 65K starting out w/ 5k sign on bonus.
and to anybody that wats to be a auto tech.. you can make big bucks if your good and want to work hard. Sad to say the money is in upselling, you will not make a dime trying to be the customers buddy.
today I earned about 50 dollars a hour, being flat rate I get paid by book time not by clock time, so I made 16 hours in a 8 hour day..
best I have ever done in a day was 32 hours in a 9 hour day. best I have seen done by somebody else was 47 hours in a 8 hour day. that tech that did 47 hours in one day made a little over 30 bucks per flat rate hour (i am only in the twenties)
I have no degree but have the credits of a B.S. in IT. I started out at $28K a year but for the next 7 years I was raised about $7K a year. I settled into a certain salary. I make about $45/hr now after 11 years ($90K).
If I were doing it today, I would go into Chemical Engineering. The big bucks will be there for awhile.
B.S. Manufacturing and Engineering Technology. Minor in Technical graphics
Unfortunately, several of our jobs are going to mexico, and even more to China. I do pretty well. Straight out of college I made around 48,500 a year, now I sit about 60,000. Graduated in '04. Not too bad for a 1 year raise.
I just graduated with a bachelors in accounting. Right now I am interviewing with companies paying around 43-45k a year. I also have a private small company offering me 48k a year. Just need to decide whether to stick with the accounting and haead toward the cpa or give this small company a shot with the option to take over the company in a year so they can retire.
I keep telling myself that this is a good problem to have, however right now it is killing me. I just don't want to give up a solid job that pays 45k a year and pays for graduate school, on the other hand you never get rich working for someone else.
Started out in engineering but after a couple years I decided to switch. Got my B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas back in '03. Minor was Business Foundations(accting, mkting, business law, and mgmt).
at LSU we had a pretty popular Chem Eng program...many went in but the graduating classes were prety slim compared to the enterring freshmen class.
a sister of a friend of mine was the only female to graduate in her class with Chem E. She is making huge bucks right now since since female engineers are a hot ticket these days--apparently.
So my advice to the OP--grow or buy some boobs and go engineering-win - win situation...
GDawg said:
I have no degree but have the credits of a B.S. in IT. I started out at $28K a year but for the next 7 years I was raised about $7K a year. I settled into a certain salary. I make about $45/hr now after 11 years ($90K).
If I were doing it today, I would go into Chemical Engineering. The big bucks will be there for awhile.