Originally posted by Jlude
I'd be more concerned with getting the job and keeping it.
This right here. I'd be happy to get anything at a good company at this point. Trust me, you're competing against guys with 1-3 years experience. It would be a mistake to act like you're the shit and have unrealistic expectations. The good companies will pay you fairly. I'd be amazed if you make $70K out of the door, but oil companies have always paid more than what i've had experience with with (EPC and Energy Infrastructure) .
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
—Cicero, Roman statesman and lawyer