# new from schenectady

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**Created:** [January 19, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525 "2011-01-19T23:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mafdark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mafdark/32/6322_2.png) [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/905 "2011-01-25T07:20:19Z")

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> [@Who else is working Friday? 11/23](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-else-is-working-friday-11-23/39080/27):
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> THIS. Well said.
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> RE: As far as the bachelors degree “making a million dollars” talk. :rofl You do know the average salary for someone graduating with a bachelors degree is $35K or so? The days of graduating and working for a corporation at $80k+ a year are over. The market is saturated. Too many chief, not enough indians.

For the most part your not far off point, however, your numbers are flawed. All of my friends who did Mechanical, Aerospace, Biomedical engineering or Computer Science started making $60k right off the bat. With hard work and good ideas they’ll brake $100k in no time. All my friends who had a CJ major are either unemployed or working either as mall security or brinks truck drivers. You can’t just say that a BS degree will net you only $35k, that’s simply incorrect.

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