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Originally Posted by OffsideSpecialist
I'm in my second year of Civil Engineering and don't really know what to expect through my 20s. I hear a lot of things from different people. One of my buddies said he hears that there are not a lot jobs for engineers, yet other say that jobs are abundant, and you just need to a put a lot of effort into finding one (which a lot of people don't do, apparently).
Obviously, I would like to make a lot of money, but I think about $60-70k in my late 20s would be alright and certainly attainable. I don't know what to expect, and I'm not trying to be too unrealistic.
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You're in a professional program, so your job outlook is probably better than average.
My brother is an engineer in his late 20s. He says that when the economy is hot, people are knocking on his door. When it's cold, 2/3 of his office gets laid off. The salary, in general, is good, but work is not always available consistently. My brother spent 1.5 years unemployed looking for work during the height of the last recession.