So wondering what to do. I'm seeing a pay ceiling and all the old-timers seem like zombies doing the same thing day in day out for decades. Is leetcode/lern2code really a thing for a physical engineer? What to do? seems like even the old guys are capping out ~$150k. How do I level up to earn more income for wife/kids/lifestyle? How do I pivot into something other than process/sustaining for the rest of my life? - semiconductor process engineer, 10 years experience, - Masters in ChE - Austin TX - experience from Intel, Samsung, NXP - LEAN six sigma crap, Quality, a little bit of R&D - know SQL, dashboarding, basic scripting stuff - TC ~$150k. Base $125k + bonuses and some other awards. #
Get into ML or AI
Forgive me for not knowing but what is ML? Artificial intelligence? How to pivot into that after being a process eng?
Take courses online and join boot camps. It will take 1-2 years to get familiar.. then u can try jobs
Aha my brother from another mother ... I make that in bay area... semiconductor will never match to software jump the ship while you can
you make $150k in the bay area? How are you living? How do I jump ship? What can a 34 year old train and learn to be successful for the next 20 years?
I am at 165K but high taxes and expensive housing more than makes up for it. I've been in the industry for 12 yrs now, I don't think I can move out now... accept it and move on I guess.
The old guys have learned to rake in the easy cash and live their life outside of work, 150k in Austin is nothing to sneeze at.
But to answer your question, upper management is where the money is.
How to break into upper management after 10 years of individual contributor? At least from what I've seen, the Fab managers are stressed and in the hook 24x7
What did you do finally ?
^ also would like to know
How do you pay so little federal tax? 😮
That's withholding. I'd rather have my money all year and then write a big check in 4/15.