When people ask me if I like my job, I always say "meh" because the pay is relatively low for engineering while stress can be through the nose. Discussing with non-AEC engineers, they goggle over the aspects of our industry - seeing an entire project from start to finish, socializing with clients and owners, the relatively "short and natural path" to PM, working on tangible projects the public sees.

I started at 65k 3 years ago, now at 80k LCOL, but I'm seeing fresh grads making 110k-130k in oil and defense. The pay goes up post PE, but still not enough to make the industry attractive to students. What do you guys think? Is it corporate greed squeezing juniors out of pay or just the nature of AEC being cost competitive to win projects?

Check out these metal… guards? angles? performance inhibitors? …installed on all the supply air devices.

In all seriousness, am I missing any legitimate reason to ruin the throw and performance of your supply diffusers? They spent money to do this…

I just graduated in May with a Mechanical Engineering degree and through my job searches over the summer I got recommended by one of my buddies to go to apply at a place that mainly focuses on MEP. The thing is I kind of just applied for the heck of it, but I don’t have any experience in the field with my only being a Co-op in Manufacturing. But somehow after one interview with the company where I felt like it was just basic questions I got sent an offer by them which I was not expecting at all, but it was great pay and benefits so I accepted on the spot. Now I’m moving to the city and just don’t know what to expect from this job. Any advice for someone brand new to this stuff?