question about salaries in the US.

turbo93
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:03:53 +0000

Engineering is engineering. I did a project for the heavy duty truck business years ago and it was quite funny… We had to demo our product in the Mid-America Truck show in Louisville, sigh. I later described the show to our executives as (and I quote) “Las Vegas CES mixed with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”…

In the 80’s I took a job with one such company nobody had heard of in the boonies. I got to do real engineering from day one, unlike my friends at Intel and defense related companies where all they did was testing or paperwork. 28 years later, I’m still writing software and my friends are wrestling powerpoint and excel…