Exactly. I know others that do pizza delivery at night, because the background they have doesn't allow them to work nights doing anything related to the profession. And the problem is then....you make rather low wages delivering or some other service work, and so no matter what...you work 20 hour days....still cant make ends meet. So I consider myself very lucky in that I can do my day job, and go home at night and do it for someone else and triple my "hourly" wage. Sure, gets to you after a while, but the plan is to be debt free someday and then slow down. Maybe. :-) But the bottom line is.....there are not alot of other professions that allows you to do this kind of work with actually pretty low overhead and do OK finacially. Engineering....most forms of it.....allows this, and with the shortage of engineers in many fields....companies are willing to work with "after hours" types as long as they can solve the problems in a timely manner. Jinx wrote: > I guess that the best way for an engineer to make more money is to > become an entrepreneur, like those in Silicon Valley It (electronic engineering/assembly/circuit development) is a profession that you can do fairly conveniently and successfully after-hours as well as being a day job -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --------------------------------- Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist