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Originally Posted by mcinturff
I guess I’ll delete the master’s degree and try that for a while. My expectation was 60-65k, I don’t know anyone starting at 75k. I can’t even get companies to call for a phone screen so I guess they see the master’s degree and think I’ll want 90k.
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My entry level techs (2 year junior college electronics degree) makes about 68K (in 3-4 yrs they will earn over 100K/yr with overtime and bonuses). The last engineer I hired was a C-student, but had a BS EE ...more education than the techs. So we paid him a little more than the techs. If he had lasted more than 1 yr, he would have gotten a bonus and a merit increase which would have gotten him over the 75K/yr mark. That's on top of 3 wks PTO, 401K matching and a cash account.
Pipelines have engineers. There are all kinds of jobs for engineers on the pipeline and in their corporate office. If you can't find a pipeline company in Houston you don't deserve a job. There are suppliers to those pipelines (material and service providers). They all need people.
Someone like you could potentially work in the Compression Group of a pipeline company where they work with large engines and compressors. There are field compression engineers and those that work at the corp office. Turbine engines, old reciprocating engines, compressors and all the ancillary equipment related to them need technical people to troubleshoot, size, spec, solve running and reliability problems.
You don't have to hide your masters degree. We usually uncover stuff anyhow. Just be honest about what you are looking for. (DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?) One of the reasons we don't spend much time looking at resumes with a Master is the fear that you won't commit to a job that isn't quite fit for someone with a Master. We don't want to waste time and money on someone who will leave after a couple years. To be honest, if you don't have the smarts to find these jobs I mention, you will likely take any job and then find you don't like it or a better one comes open, then you're gone and I just wasted a lot of resource.
Do some research. No, posting on the Pelican OT is not research. Determine what it is you want to do. What jobs can you apply your practical experience? Are those jobs something you want to do for 35 yrs?
I had dreams of working in Detroit with my BSME degree since I loved cars and motorcycles. I wanted to be the next big deal in Detroit. Nope...didn't happen. I now have a good job that pays well, and I can afford to build and create anything I want in my own shop. In Detroit I likely would have been working on a small piece of a large puzzle and making less money.
That business about doing what you love for work? Forget about that. Find a good job that pays well and do what you love on your own time.