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  • #46
    I have a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and that has made me join the top 10% income league in Sweden. But the wage differentials here are quite low. I earn about 40 k€ per year, while the low-end fulltime jobs for uneducated people (janitor and such) pay about half of that.

    If I lived in US and had the same job, I would get 70-100 k$ per year.
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    • #47
      Originally posted by Kidicious
      I think people with degrees in economics are smarter
      "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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      • #48
        Originally posted by Arrian




        -Arrian
        Sorry Arrian. I knew I would get a hit somewhere. I'm sure some history majors do quite well though
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        • #49


          I'm fine. I'm not really using the degree, since I work in Insurance.

          -Arrian
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          • #50
            Well, I guess I am not moving to the US for sure.
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            • #51
              Hmm, I am below average, but since cost of living is less here I guess that's OK.

              Those are strange numbers though. The Finance guys I know were making 6 figures in around 3 years after grad.
              Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.

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              • #52
                You're talking about MBAs who specialize in Finance I think.
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                • #53
                  Garth: While I think that Oerdin is correct, you also have to remember that I got in the business close to twenty years ago. It was a whole different world then. Also, there are a variety of "Finance Guys". My specialty is is consumer lending to high risk individuals. Unfortunately, the consumer finance business paid its employees poorly and reaped huge profits. The mortgage business is more regulated but still reaps huge profits...they just pay better!
                  "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                  • #54
                    One guy I know just has a BComm. He has been working on his CFA and has a couple levels already. He doesn't have an MBA.

                    The other is an MBA.

                    They started as Financial Analysts. I am not sure of titles now.

                    I suppose there is a big difference within the field like anything else.
                    Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Kontiki
                      A huge amount depends on your personality/drive/etc.. One of my best friends from high school - who was incredibly bright, BTW - decided to totally slack off his senior year and barely graduated (again, if he applied himself even to half his ability, he could have gotten into university no problem). He was a compu-geek, but not in the programming kind of way. He got some crap job testing games at Electronic Arts, and within a few years became a producer and even designed/created/launched a top-selling game himself (well, with the help of his team at EA). He then went on to co-found a tech company, left to do some free-lance consulting work, and is now a producer at one of the top electronic ad agencies in Canada, handling Microsoft's accounts. All of this without ANY post-secondary education, but alot of drive and determination.

                      getting a crap job at EA, is actually being frikking lucky, or having nice friends... btw what top selling game did he design by the way?
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                      • #56
                        Mine are 6th and 14th (Economics & Political Science). Though I'm sure with the Law Degree, the starting salary will be a bit higher .
                        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                          Mine are 6th and 14th (Economics & Political Science). Though I'm sure with the Law Degree, the starting salary will be a bit higher .
                          You have two BAs and a Law? Wow!
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                          • #58
                            Yeah... I graduated with a double major in Political Science and Economics with a minor in History from Rutgers. And now I'm in Emory Law School.

                            I'm HOPING that gets me a nice starting salary .
                            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                            • #59
                              How in the world is History above Psychology? I know Psych is an intro. college degree, but History? Come on!

                              (if you can't tell, psych is my undergrad major)

                              ...but as soon as grad school comes around...Criminal Justice, baby!
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                              • #60
                                One guy I know just has a BComm. He has been working on his CFA and has a couple levels already. He doesn't have an MBA.

                                The other is an MBA.
                                Undergrad doesn't count for much. CFA and good school MBA seem to be a starting point in USA. Actually standard approach is to get foot in the door, immediately receive pressure to do CFA. Then when CFA is done you can go places, if you didn't suffer nervous breakdown along the way.
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