A senior engineer at work is completely and utterly convinced that a young engineer should seek out firefighting if you want money. How many people do you know who gave up their engineering degree to do something more blue collar (firefighting) Really curious especially since a firefighter took home 1M in TC a year ago
Took home 1M from burning houses?
I know 0 people
Opens the door to some... interesting... and potentially lucrative side hustles. You can make really good money stripping, or doing shirtless / naked calendars with your buddies. If you’re handsome, hung and beefy.
1M total... that means they averaged 480$ an hour... no way man
Google it. LA county
iCallBS...what an ironic name. First, it seems the million was over four years. Second, what sort of dubious person takes the extreme outlier case and asks a question about changing careers as if it's the norm. iCallBS indeed. Google yourself.
It's really hard to get in. Maybe moreso than SWE.
1M in Indian rupee
I knew a civil engineer that took up firefighting. He was only making around 40K as a civil engineer so he didnt have to take a big pay cut for the career change.
lol
1. Salaries for the most senior firefighters generally top out at less than entry level TC for tech co engineers 2. The percentage of tech co engineers who could pass the physical fitness requirements to be a firefighter is probably statistically insignificant.
Did you do a quick google and determine that? You guys realize overtime isn’t put into your initial salary offer as a firefighter
Nope. In my network of friends and family, there’s a lot more public servants (military, police, firefighters, nurses, EMT/paramedics, teachers, etc) than tech engineers, and firefighters might well have the best deal out of the spectrum in terms of $ and WLB, but nothing close to the absurd TC we get at tech companies. There’s certainly some good reasons to leave tech to be a firefighter (if you could cut it) but making more money isn’t one.
Google just told me that the average is 34k-57k. Even if they had 40 hours of over time EVERY week, let’s even say at double pay, they would make on average less than 100k. What are you talking about
All the firefighters I know make much less than engineers.
They retire at 50 with the same salary though