Originally Posted by unregistered

very good advice. The idea is to stand out from your peers, in a positive way. Do those tasks that will get you noticed, and make sure you do them very well.

I started at 2.6k (2nd upper hons), now earning 5k base salary after 6 yrs, bonus varies from 3-6 mths/yr depending on performance.

However, this is still less than peanuts, compared to what lawyers and bankers earn. Wish someone had told me as an 18 year old, the realities of an engineer's salary, i would have taken a different course.

Isn't it unfortunate that we engineers did well in jc to qualify for an engineering course, survived the tough undergrad days, work so hard now, value-add and and create so much, yet are paid so little.