Ok you lot! Spill the beans!

[Ginger]

Fabricator/welder/machinist at a tuning company

17k

[lewis_willy2]

electrical enginner apprentice for south eastern trains
in my 2nd year

1st year 11k basic with £20 a day travel to college, and travelling 4 days a week so extra £3k a year

2nd year £13,500

3rd year (this sept) £16,500

4th year £19,500

out of time qualified fitter with good grades 28k + overtime

will be 22 wen qualified :D

prob gna go on to do civil or chartered engineering 50-60k

[Swervin_Mervin]

Civils don't earn that kind of money mate. Being chartered isn't really worth it in the civils industry either.

I remember thinking like you when I left uni. :P

[j3ned]

£30k per annum + company car + all the free renault parts i need

[Lunner]

Civil engineers get an average starting sallery of around £20-25k.

Top site boss wo was working ont eh same site as me when i was doing experience was on 49k.

They are crying out for civil engineers, doing a year out next year, going onto site with no experience etc etc(well i ahve but most haven't) and getting £12-13k for the year

And when qualified you get a compnay car

[Swervin_Mervin]

Trust me, civils don't get that much. I started 5yrs ago on £15k as a graduate, and you could expect to get £18-20k now as a graduate.

If you stick at it you can expect to earn about £35k at the mo as a principal engineer and £40k + benefits as a director.

[J o n]

aah, these uni lads eh mike? in for a shock or what? lol ;)

[Swervin_Mervin]

The best thing I remember was the last day of the module taught by the head of dept and my tutor. He finished it, congratulated us (we'd already done finals and got results) and then informed us that if we want a job that earns lots of money, look elsewhere and don't go in to Civils. :P

His only recommendation for earning wonga in anything construction related was to go on and study law and become a construction lawyer.

[Willy 2]

Just started my own Asset Finance Broker....no real money made just yet but earning potential

£4-7k per month once i have some regular suppliers. This is realistic as i was doing this amount in my last job except i was only seeing 10% of it. Now i will see all of it. :D

[Lunner]

graduate wage is about what i said lol

Bloke was on 49k a year, worked for Sisk.

Was speaking to another bloke that does groundworks for houses etc, and he was saying if he could find a good surveyer, someone who purley does surveying he woudl pay them £46k a year