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Originally posted by fotze@Aug 30 2005, 06:23 PM
Engineers are totally underpaid as it is (and you non-engineers,
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Actually Engineers do screw themselves when it comes time to get paid. But it's because they generally are too damn stubborn or arrogant to realize it. In fact it's likely due to the fact that a lot of them have very poor interpersonal skills and hence don't know how to negotiate a good deal for themselves. If they were better sales folk, they'd know how to get paid.
Topic at hand.
See if you can bring the money up. But just because you have one job doesn't mean you can't get another one. The easiest way to get yourself at least a 10% raise every year is to either leave, or threaten to leave your company for another job. Getting your foot in the door right now is what you want to do though. I mean what good will it do you to hold out three months for a job that will pay 3500 more per year and miss out on $10k in earnings plus 3 months of experience that is worth a lot more than that. Not to mention with a small company they likely have to make conservative estimates to start off, so after 3 months you might find that they do move you up to your targeted rate. Also the bonuses could turn out to be pretty good too. I used to work for a smaller company and the bonuses were great.