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08-31-2006, 04:07 PM
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| behannah-what do you do at work?Is it 'fun'? I'm also an EE major. And exactly how expensive is L.A? | 
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08-31-2006, 05:53 PM
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| AIR BEAR should post a link to her company profile. Haha. | |
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08-31-2006, 07:45 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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| LA's expensive. I'm paying about $1.60/SF for my current apartment, and I have a 40-minute round-trip daily commute to Burbank, so I don't even actually live *in* Los Angeles.
Air bear...? That me...? | |
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08-31-2006, 09:11 PM
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| Yes, that is you. | |
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08-31-2006, 09:19 PM
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| $1.60/SF? What is that? | |
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08-31-2006, 09:21 PM
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| price per square foot of space | |
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08-31-2006, 10:30 PM
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| how do you convert that to price per month? | |
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08-31-2006, 11:30 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| OK...
Shackleford: http://www.wje.com
Wiss Janney Elstner & Associates. We reconstructed TWA Flight 800, investigated the twin towers collapses, and just celebrated our 50th anniversary. Bostonians, the name may be familiar: Mitt Romney just hired us to do the stem-to-stern of the Big Dig for 4.5 million.
raccna:
Take whatever size of apartment you want... Like a 500 SF one bedroom apartment, multiply it by that $1.60/SF, that's $800/month in rent. For a 1000 SF two bedroom, that'd be $1600/month. For comparison, I paid about $1/SF in Houston, and about 85 cents/SF in Champaign-Urbana. | |
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09-01-2006, 08:46 PM
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| ahh, I'm a girl, I totally meant to do a smile face not a "wink wink"sry for the typo. But anyways I found it a while back, and I'm not linking for aibarr's own safety. lol | |
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09-01-2006, 08:46 PM
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08-05-2007, 12:27 AM
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| More comments!! | |
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08-05-2007, 08:20 AM
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| Thanks, Denzera. It's good to see some fellow AM majors around here  | |
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08-05-2007, 10:53 AM
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#28 | | Junior Member
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| 1. I go by many titles, but let's say "Operations Research Analyst"
2. Salary. Most engineers in their 50s in the Washington area are at the top of this pay scale: http://opm.gov/oca/07tables/html/dcb.asp (actually, the bottom of the chart, but you clever engineers all worked that out!)
3. 18 months in this specific job, four years with this type of job. 35 years of experience doing other technical stuff.
4. Ivy league bachelors in chemistry, MA in government from a CC T25 school, MS OR from a well-respected engineering school, PhD candidate in OR. (overeducated)
5. Toyota Sequoia. But, most days I take the bus. | |
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08-05-2007, 02:58 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
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| 1. Part-time Engineering Consultant (student otherwise)
2. I don't get paid a salary. I have a published price list which ranges from $20 to $62.5 per hour depending upon the work.
3. 12 months sporadic consulting at high pay. 1-4 months low-pay at NASA facility, depending how you slice it.
4. 2 years college at notable science/engineering LAC...will finish 4 years there then eventually get masters in Propulsion Sciences (maybe magneto-fluid dynamics)
5. Toyota Matrix (just bought it). Driving sucks in LA but where I live there are not too many other options. Commute is 1-2 hours due to traffic.
Note: Money is great and all, but I'm very picky about the projects I work on and get bored easily so I've been throwing around a notion to do a start-up firm with a few buds of mine doing micro-aerospace modern control systems. That'd be awesome, no? | |
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08-06-2007, 05:33 PM
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| RocketDA Good luck with that man - startups can be a staggering economic investment. Make sure to have a backup plan. | |
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