Posted on 04/16/2025 2:00:06 PM PDT by zeestephen
Like $100K affords some kind of extravagant lifestyle? You gonna support a wife, 3-6 kids, college, house, cars, and work 40 hours a week?
Step sister (that i don’t care for) got a PhD in marine biology from a Hawaii University. Effing 12 years in college. The woman now works for some corporation as a lab manager leading a group that genetically engineers medical marijuana. I had to smile when I heard that.
What? No 15th century French poetry? (The sister of one of my friends has that degree. Yes, their dad is a doctor and well off enough to have paid for that trash).
Also, no English lit with a minor in “Arts and letters”? (The daughter of one of my friends has that degree. Yes, my friend is well off enough to have paid for that trash). She now works in one of his companies as more or less a waitress.
My daughter has a bachelor’s of applied science, dental hygiene, she makes $60-80 an hour. Her degree 10 years ago cost us around $40k. Great career field for young ladies, no vaccine requirements.
Barely made it through Jr. High... Took $200k+ to afford to live in Hawaii...
One solution: take calculus during a 10 week summer session and only that course-focus on it.
And the physics, don't forget the physics.
I come to realize there were 2 types of people in engineering school: extremely intelligent and those just too dumb to quit.
I belong to the latter group...
Engineering will get you a high paying first job.
But if you are willing to work really hard, play the political games, and work a network of connections you can blow away engineering salaries in short order.
But you have to be in charge of your life. Sitting around and just “doing your job” isn’t going to get you very far, very fast.
It’s not like it’s real money.
A $100,000 salary today would have been about $10,000 in 1960 and about $12,000 in 1970. Even when today’s college grads were born in 2003 you could buy what that $100,000 would get you with only $57,000
The most amazing college program would have to be Nurse Anesthesia training. Granted it is close to 10 years of hard work in advanced sciences and intense clinical training. I helped train many, many CRNA’s. Many of my former students are making well over 200K with others over 300K and up to almost 400K when in rural settings with Medicare bonus for areas with limited services. Last year I saw an advertisement from the US Army offering a $250,000 bonus for a four year active duty enlistment. I retired four years ago at $273K base pay and lots of other great benefits. If people wanted overtime, it was always available and very lucrative. You start your journey with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. You then must acquire two years of critical care practice. You then apply to one of the Nurse Anesthesia programs and if accepted, you will complete 30-36 months of didactic and clinical training. You will receive at least a master’s degree and some programs are awarding doctorate degrees. It is intense, but you will be practicing at a very, very advanced level. Spinals, epidurals, specific nerve blocks, pain management services, central and arterial line placement and many other skills. For most of my career, I practiced independently without physician supervision. You will hear many derogatory comments from MD anesthesia providers. I can tell you, I received many, many requests from OR and recovery nurses needing anesthetics themselves or for their family members. At times surgeons requested me over any of the MD’s. No, I wasn’t a physician and there were certainly situations where I deferred to MD’s. Your educational and clinical preparation are certainly of great importance, but the experience you acquire in the first 5 yrs of practice are what determine if you work in a closely supervised position or work independently. I will say, it can truly be one of the most intense and stressful positions depending on where and how you practice. Emergent c-sections with without a pulse and not breathing will get your pulse up. In a career, you will face hundreds if not thousands of critical emergencies for which you have only seconds to react. Doing 14 or 15 hour cases in which a patient may lose more than 100% of their blood volume requires uncountable thousands of assessments and responses. All I can say is that I truly thank GOD for the privilege of 40 yrs of practice and the excellent reimbursements I received.
$100k salary allows you to BARELY rent a 1 bedroom apartment in Assachusetts. I’m not kidding. Very few in Eastern Mass under $2k/month.
Calculus was not the problem for me. Fields and Waves (Maxwells equations which are calculus of course) and Quantum Mechanics Were problems for this engineer. Took them over in grad school and it helped; What really would have helped would be to find a Prof Feynmann teaching them.
Biggest problem was that instructors seemed not to understand it either.
As far as income, it was steady but reached a point where progress was slow, I never had to worry about getting employment though.
Good HVAC techs make $100K plus
Engineering is a great career!
Calculus was tought but it was Physics that ate me up. Thermodynamics was no picnic either.
As for Calculus, I found differentiation got relatively easy, but integration was a challenge.
NJ explains me?
I’ve also lived in Virginia, Wisconsin and Connecticut and spent a lot of time in Germany.
Does the state in which you reside explain you?
Silly person you are.
‘ Wang, wang, wang ... go play in the mud’
Everybody wang Chung tonight.
‘ YOU really have the ultimate NJ bravado that ultimately demonstrates what a want-a-be you literally are’
Aww thanks, but I’m not even close. Say, what kind of bravado are you demonstrating?
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