> I burned 5 years in industry being paid crap and then discovered it was actually a fairly low paying profession in the UK I was absolutely dumbfounded when I

> I burned 5 years in industry being paid crap and then discovered it was actually a fairly low paying profession in the UK I was absolutely dumbfounded when I looked up engineering salaries in the UK. I mean, even in the US, I don't consider most engineering fields particularly high paying, but the UK is something else.