<p>price per square foot of space</p>
<p>how do you convert that to price per month?</p>
<p>OK...</p>
<p>Shackleford:
<a href="http://www.wje.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.wje.com</a>
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>Let's stay on topic, but please only post info you are comfortable with revealing - we don't do deletes for remorseful posters. ;)</p>
<p>More comments!!</p>
<p>Thanks, Denzera. It's good to see some fellow AM majors around here :)</p>
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<li><p>I go by many titles, but let's say "Operations Research Analyst"</p></li>
<li><p>Salary. Most engineers in their 50s in the Washington area are at the top of this pay scale: <a href="http://opm.gov/oca/07tables/html/dcb.asp%5B/url%5D">http://opm.gov/oca/07tables/html/dcb.asp</a> (actually, the bottom of the chart, but you clever engineers all worked that out!)</p></li>
<li><p>18 months in this specific job, four years with this type of job. 35 years of experience doing other technical stuff.</p></li>
<li><p>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)</p></li>
<li><p>Toyota Sequoia. But, most days I take the bus.</p></li>
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<ol>
<li><p>Part-time Engineering Consultant (student otherwise)</p></li>
<li><p>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.</p></li>
<li><p>12 months sporadic consulting at high pay. 1-4 months low-pay at NASA facility, depending how you slice it. </p></li>
<li><p>2 years college at notable science/engineering LAC...will finish 4 years there then eventually get masters in Propulsion Sciences (maybe magneto-fluid dynamics)</p></li>
<li><p>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.</p></li>
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<p>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?</p>
<p>RocketDA Good luck with that man - startups can be a staggering economic investment. Make sure to have a backup plan.</p>
<p>this is fun :) keep it up guys :P</p>
<p>not graduated but ill jump in </p>
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<li>lab assistant in structural lab</li>
<li>7.50 an hour</li>
<li>3 months in lab</li>
<li>90 credits in mechanical engineering/math </li>
<li>97 honda civic</li>
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<p>i mainly design and fix gauges and testing implements</p>
<p>I was enjoying this thread. Why did it die down?</p>
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<li>Federal Express Cargo Handler</li>
<li>$12/hour</li>
<li>1 day</li>
<li>High School Diploma</li>
<li>For an 18 year old straight out of high school? It's a decent sum of money. Plus it's like working out for 4 hours straight a day, so it's good for the muscles. Once I start college, I'll have a better shot with the ladies.</li>
<li>I don't own a car because I don't drive.</li>
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I was enjoying this thread. Why did it die down?
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<p>You're welcome.</p>
<p>As for why the thread dies out, I'm guessing that most visitors to CC are approaching college. That's the nature of CC discussions and questions. Thus, there are very few working engineers wandering around this thread. Even fewer find a way to answer the questions without giving too much personal info. </p>
<p>By the way, I found a good, descriptive title for the work I do now. I just talked to somebody in a parallel position to my own, and he calls himself an "embedded consultant". So, I guess that's what I am, too.</p>
<p>And how do get to one of those late-career lucrative positions? Management is one choice, of course. But if you just want to be compensated for your services, you need to have worked on a wide variety of subjects and in a wide range of roles. The persona you're aiming for is 'eclectic', which is an SAT-invented word for "blooms where planted".</p>