Passion vs. Money

GLOBALTRAVELER
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:44:14 +0000

Actually, I was posting about I.T. independent contractors in response to the postings that said that you could not make much money in engineering.

Another thing I wanted to post is that managers of engineers, especially engineers who are doing INTEL contracting for the Feds do NOT always make more money. Yes, they are the decision-makers but US engineers do not care about that. We can basically go from employer to employer anytime because of out skill-set.

In fact, many engineers contracting in INTEL were former managers, I.T. directors and the such from the private sector and are now just grunt engineers in the INTEL world because we get more money and less responsibility.

$150k without anyone reporting to you >>>> $120k and worrying about 50 other folks.