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Folks, I am in the final stages of converting an offer for the position of Senior Advisor, Business Intelligence at Dell Technologies
If this gets converted what should be a good salary range to negotiate with the HR?
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How do you all deal with the guilt of leaving a comany/ team? I have been working at Microsoft for 1 year now, and seriously considering moving. I find the code base to be very legacy and I mostly work on obscure bugs that I spend so much time on, mostly due to navigating this large code base and not having much docs to refer to. Hence I find the job slightly unsatisfying, and that I could learn more elsewhere. However, I love the wlb, the team and company culture. The guilt stops my applying.
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If he's studying mechanic engineering, he needs an internship and not an apprenticeship. While an internship is absolutely great on his resume, it will come with almost bare minimum pay if it even comes with pay. I would advise he pick up an HVAC course from a trades school (roughly 6 months to a year depending on how accelerated it is, and he should be able to hit the field making $30+/hour as an apprentice for a year, take his state license exam. Then, as a journeyman, he can be making upwards of $90/hour funding hi way through mechanic engineering. He can easily come out of school as a mechanic engineer focused on HVAC/R design. It's a good career path that's not likely to die out to AI any time soon.
Ok. So that isn't "mechanical" as ironic as the term mechanic is applied to auto repair. So he's looking to enter a trade school focusing on ASE certification. Yes they have what they sometimes refer to as an "apprenticeship" and do pay but it's not a true apprenticeship that's filed with the state and required to obtain a journeyman Licensure in the state he lives and works in. Personally, it wouldn't be the route I would take in his position. ASE required positions (the auto mechanic positions that pay a livable wage in this day) are few and far apart. I would steer him more towards the trades. Electricians definitely get paid the most but have the longest apprenticeship towards journeyman, HVAC-R is extremely short compared to most of the trades and can make almost as much as an electrician, if not more if focusing on mini split installs and running a 2 man crew. I have both a B.S. in mechanical engineering and make a sizable wage as a building engineer but also hold a journeyman HVAC-R license and can easily kick out 1-2 mini slit installs on the weekend that reap in $20-40k for 8-16 hours in a single weekend. I think when you break down the financial gains to a situation like this to a 17 year old and realize only 52 weekends at 8-16 hours for a gross income of between 1-2 million/year vs your traditional m-f 9-5 for maybe a salary of $65-85k/year it becomes a night and day situation. All this takes is 1 year of trade school, 1 year of apprenticeship making $35-40/hour, a state exam, $200 bi annually, and filing an LLC online for about $50/year... it's a damn good deal.
Have you tried looking on Indeed and Linked in to see what kind of roles you can find on there? I would also suggest reaching out to recruiters on Linked in to see if they know of any apprenticeships in your area. Best of luck to your son!
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Good luck!