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Q. I was wanting to know what does your typical engineer do on the job day to day. Here is what I am interested in. -------------------------------- I. electrical II. mechanical III. chemical (particulary this one) IV. and other. I'm also trying to find payscales for these jobs. I have checked out monster.com and have a relevent estimate. Real world figures would be appreciated. How much does experience and aquiring a master's or doctoral degree increase pay and/or possition in the company I could be working for. Finally, any pros and cons to each dicipline would help. And any other comments or suggestions would help greatly.

A. I predict that the favourite answer of Va1erian would be: "Get a large jar of lubricant, copiously apply to your rear hole, then go into any of the abovementioned occupations -- you will get profusely screwed everywhere". ;-) Seriously speaking, go and speak to your parents, friends, professors and strangers about advantages and disadvantages of the engineering of different fields for many days until you drop sick. Than a revelation will come upon you -- you will clearly realise what kind of engineering you want to get into. Many people will tell you that you should not worry about the size of your pay in the first years, because the most important thing for you is to get e_x_p_e_r_i_e_n_c_e. After that, you will be desired by the prospective employers. If you are not desired by employers, what's in it for you how much is prevailing wage in your industry ?? Also people on this newsgroup will point out to you that you should check if there are jobs for graduates with undergrad degrees. If one cannot get a job with a bachelor degree, a graduate degree won't help. I would like to share my recent personal experience. I was hired into an R&D outfit, and I got through the beaurocratic hoops into the place later than my boss expected. So he brought me into the device developoment project to where he already hired a skilled Electronics Engineer. I noticed that this Electronics Engineer can do the same things as I, a Physicist, do. And on the top of it, he competently developed the complete electronic circuitry of the device. This was the stuff I could not do. I started to think: what's the use of me in the project ? Why did they hire me, a physicist ? What physicists do, and how they get hired at all ? Well, I could develop the physical principles of the physical sensors the proper way (and it would take me half a year or more). But the boss wanted the prototype device out of the door as soon as possible, and the sensor, developed by the Electronics Engineer, worked after only several weeks of development (even if very inefficiently). Frankly speaking, I cannot still answer this question. Perhaps, I should have became an electronics engineer, and by now I would have the experience with the pecularities of electronic circuits, and would be in demand by employers being able to cobble up together quickly something working. SRC contributors, can you provide any comments ?

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