Proton in "Stay With It" Engineering campaign

[Baldwin]

Well, on Pi Day...3/14, I'm releasing another music video with my VX. Hoping to bring the fun factor of Engineering. I think its' the industry the engineers work in that determine's their pay. Lot of engineers don't make as much until they get to management, but as someone working in the entertainment biz in LA, Engineering is definitely what keeps me afloat. LA's a bad example though cuz my salary here would be nearly the same as some of my co-workers in St. Louis or Sacramento. But here, I'm renting a small 2br apt for $1750 and that's a GREAT deal here. Most people are paying $2k for the same thing. I just use my engineering skills to save the landlord money by making repairs for him and not charging labor. If unions continue the way they are going and cause labor rates to go up in manufacturing, there will be more engineering jobs to automate their work. HS grads making $100k in LA to opererate one of our 90% efficient lines is crazy. Our engineering firm is swamped with work and we can't find enough qualified engineers to hire. The other problem we're having is finding not so talented graduates. That's a whole other story. That's something I'm hoping to help change with "Stay With It".

[twalker920]

No one's mentioned Aerospace Engineering (my major).

My freshman class at University of Colorado Boulder was about 470. At graduation there were 116. That is a 75% attrition rate, and I even considered switching to journalism after freshman year (a decision I still sometimes ponder.) I was class of '91, when there were no engineering jobs to be had unless you were one of the 7 women out of the 116 that ALL got jobs (even the two stupid ones) because of equal opportunity quotas.

I did it in exactly 4 years even though the curriculum was 9 semesters, because I tested out of 3 classes from AP classes in high school. The courseload was brutal.

I have never actually worked in my field, I slum in the Oil and Gas insdustry as a regular mechanical engineer because they won't stop throwing money at me.

Edit: great video btw. I contracted for a company putting in side impact airbag initiator production lines. Lots of Bosch conveyors with pallets that loved to jam and fall off (until I got there of course!) and cam-driven pick and place machines that would take a hand off in a heartbeat. And robots. The "boom room" where the propellant was put in to the ingiter module had no people working in it, just robots.

[mdwyer]

But here, I'm renting a small 2br apt for $1750 and that's a GREAT deal here.

Ouch. I pay less than half of that for three bedrooms and a garage to keep the Proton in. 'Course I'm in an old 50s suburb in a sometimes sketchy neighborhood, so that's a bit of an anomaly... There has been talk about shipping out to the left coast, but I don't know how they can pay people enough to live out there!

If you ever decide to leave the coast, there's plenty of opportunities out here in Colorado. One of my college roommates is working on delta robotics and computer vision systems on packaging lines. I thought of his place as soon as I saw your video.

I learned a great deal from him... like that corndogs don't actually rot so much as just dessicate. :-P