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Recent content by Arthur PE

  1. Arthur PE

    Am I screwed? Career crisis...at 24.

    no 24 year pet engineers are making 200k in Pittsburgh I work with Atlas, Chevron, Range, Halli, etc. in Greene county
  2. Arthur PE

    Am I screwed? Career crisis...at 24.

    why would they do that? they would have to pay unemployment, severance package, cobra, etc. if someone resigns, and you lay them off so they can collect and that is illegal why would a firm handle a 23 year old with 2 years of experience like that? it's either quit or work...and they begin...
  3. Arthur PE

    Am I screwed? Career crisis...at 24.

    apparently you didn't quote (excerpt): This wouldn't be so bad, except I'm going to be laid off soon. We've hired someone to be my replacement....
  4. Arthur PE

    Am I screwed? Career crisis...at 24.

    mediocre grades 2 years out of school, 23 years old 150k about to get laid off, and they have already hired your replacement the question I would be asking is why am I being laid off and what do I have to do to keep this job if they hired a replacement it's not that the position is being...
  5. Arthur PE

    industrial engineering?

    sounds like a great career there are many like that which do not require college in the States water and wastewater operators are in short supply, they aren't making 200k, but make 60-80k + benefits, which ain't bad for a HS education in the US there is a stigma with blue collar work, it's...
  6. Arthur PE

    industrial engineering?

    what is that? a power plant operators license? what type of plant? coal, gas, etc.? do you have a link to the requirements/quals? thanks edit: found it http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/regs/tspower.htm#TOC2_40
  7. Arthur PE

    industrial engineering?

    Porsche has a consulting group of IE's (and other disciplines) that do operational studies of healthcare facilities
  8. Arthur PE

    Cars We Drive!

    we get the face lifted one (which I like) we also can get the titanium option: body colored front lip, black grill/window trim/rear diffuser, body colored mirrors, black exh tips, graphite wheels this package also includes the sport exh, a bit deeper/louder looks much better than the silver on...
  9. Arthur PE

    Cars We Drive!

    for men tight (6' 180 is a good sized guy) for a 5'7" 120 lb woman should be fine for 1 hour trips into the city for dinner/show long trips are usually just my wife and myself
  10. Arthur PE

    Cars We Drive!

    the RS5 and new S6 are both on sale now optioned as I want both are ~75k the S6 is probably a bit faster, but I like a high rev'ing type of engine (and with the RS5 you don't sacrifice much torque, it has 90% peak from 2.5 to 8k rpm, coupled with a 7 speed it has good drivability/.elasticity)...
  11. Arthur PE

    industrial engineering?

    imo the big 3 or core engineering disciplines are civil, elec, mech my school has a well ranked IE program imo you would be better off doing a general mech degree and taking electives in IE ME's and EE's are routinely trained to do IE work, for example an EE in a power equip mfg facility or a...
  12. Arthur PE

    Job offer salary negotiations when unemployed...

    ditto if you ask for more, they may move on, I doubt they only interviewed 1 person if you wanted more, change the range, higher, narrower, whatever, you gave a range, they are within it I've hired people, and the offer is the offer, especially if I met their requested range the way I look...
  13. Arthur PE

    Cars We Drive!

    coal miners make 40/hour so 82k base around here, all union they get 8 hours week OT at 1.5 time + shift differential, 600 hours plus ~ 24k much OT is double time, so work 50 hours, get paid for 70 many will work 10 hour day, so get paid for 11 or 12, 3000 hours x 40/hr ~ 120k if a guy works a...
  14. Arthur PE

    Job offer salary negotiations when unemployed...

    good benefits in the range you stipulated do you think you will like the job? room to advance? I'd jump on it unless you have other offers easier (and less stress) to find a job when working what do you do? are you in a field in high demand?
  15. Arthur PE

    Cars We Drive!

    avg coal miner or gas field worker in my area, HS education at best, makes 100-120k in a very low CoL area, wives have jobs too, usually part time 20 to 30k they all have homes paid off, trucks, cars, kids in college and nice savings (my wife is a cpa and does taxes) they are frugal and usually...

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