>Mechanical Engineer

>Starting wage is 40k, as much as a Walmart cashier

>Median is 80k, after being a wageslave for half a decade 

>6 figures debt is typically required, maybe 50k if getting scholarships and going to a regional university

>4-6 years of education required 

>Truck driver

>45k starting salary

>Debit is 4k, gets paid off by working for company for 3 months

>Only a month training and a test is required.

>Median is 100k, can make 6 figures in 3 years and hoping to join Walmart semis

STEM is a fucking joke, trucking is the new meta

>>54696641 (OP)

Trucking pays well but I've heard there isn't much free time since you are on the road a lot.

the real thing truckers don't tell you about is left ear partial deafness

Why left ear? Masturbating all the time oncthe road or something?

cruising with the window down and the wind blowing into your ear

>>54696641 (OP)

it sounds like a good idea on the open road.

but you have to remember cities. 

there is so much fuckery in cities and driving a semi through alot of city streets takes the 100k a year skill imo.



highway miles seems chill though.

Roll the window up

>entire industry never thought of this

I did a bunch of passenger side riding at a temp agency for a freight shipping company, lots of people would try to cut you off and then flick brakes off and on

Made no sense either. Like if we hit you you aren't surviving for insurance payout

that's gay tho

>>54696641 (OP)



Average salaries for engineering are higher than that, and only a retard would go 6 figures into debt for an engineering degree (or any degree for that matter, other than maybe something in the medical field that's specialized and with good prospects).



Average in-state tuition was about $10k/year last year. So $40k total for an undergrad degree in STEM. You could probably cut that in half doing community college for the fist couple years and gen eds like trig/calc 1/calc 2/calc 3, whatever basic chem and physics courses you need, etc. Just be sure your credits from the CC transfer 100% to your 4-year uni first, if they're in the same state there's a good chance they will. Of course if you get scholarships and other financial aid that's even better.

Just go into software. I get payed 460k to poke holes in peoples ideas in my pajamas

>>54696641 (OP)

My Company (Cleveland) starts Engineers [fresh out of College] at 70k plus OT



I made 125k last year



Old people are retiring en mass

>>54696641 (OP)

Median income for OTR truck drivers is only 60K.

 

Yes, you can earn 100K if you work at top tier companies like Walmart long haul or something but that's not the reality for most.



It's like saying STEM makes 300K/year starting because FAANG software engineers get paid that much.



Either way, trucking is only a good career if you are low IQ and want an easy job.

>easy job

I dunno man trucking seemed pretty cut throat, one fuck up and people die easily.

I guess if you just didn't give a fuck and blared your horn and had facial of expression of "I'll run your ass down" then yeah I guess it could be considered easy. I'm too passive to merge aggressively on freeways

What if you go to college for free? What is job satisfaction like?
