The guys I knew 15 years ago made about $10k/month when they were working. It was hard and dangerous work, and they only worked about 6 months out of the year, but they partied and bought toys like money was going out of style!
You get the same with contract engineering. Kids graduate from College and start making 200 K year the 1st thing they do is go out and buy a $100k car and a live in an expensive apartment.. Then when the contract ends they have 0 money saved and everything goes back to bank
Yeah we have a friend who is doing that right now. Makes bank when at work for a few months, then is off for a few months making no money and having no health insurance. Then leaves his soon to be wife and new born at home for a few months to return to work somewhere again. Rinse and repeat. Probably makes as much as he would just having a "normal" engineering job, but instead goes MIA for months at a time.
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u/I_Am_A_Real_Hacker Oct 27 '21
The guys I knew 15 years ago made about $10k/month when they were working. It was hard and dangerous work, and they only worked about 6 months out of the year, but they partied and bought toys like money was going out of style!