[hourislate]

My business partner for one of his other ventures, hired a kid who finished a degree from University of Waterloo in NANO Technology Eng as a lab tech for a starting salary of 48k.

It seems like his prospects were very limited. I'm not sure if it's his career choice or if it's related to the high levels of underemployment in the Toronto tech industry in general.

[kingkongjaffa]

Traditional engineering, especially academic, is not very well paid compared to software engineering jobs.

Source: I skipped out on a Mechanical engineering PhD to join industry for better $$, I then skipped out on Mechanical engineering industry for better w/l balance and $$ working from home in a tech role.