Carlo09

Thank you for your reply, it's good to receive one from someone in the same field as me! What are the opportunities for chem eng like in the us with regards to salary and benefits and also number of jobs? Does this career put you in good good position with regards to qulity of life?

I get a scholarship from my current university (Manchester) which will mean I should have around £15-20k after I graduate which I could put towards a Masters in the US.

ian-mstm

My stepdaughter was a Chemical Engineer and a PE, and worked in oil refineries in both Kentucky and Minnesota. She never worked as a CE/PE in Texas (blame the media for the attention Texas gets)... and she's now an attorney.


There's a large and growing Meth Lab problem in Kentucky and West Virginia... would you be adding to the problem, or helping to solve it?


With all due respect, California and Florida are both in the south... not "up north".

Ian

Jerseygirl

I had to re-read that. I think the OP means up north or Cali and Fla.

Carlo09

Oops sorry! No I did actually mean north ... They are like north central right?

orangemirror

Dude, with those geography skills you are going to fit right in over here.

mayhemuk

My response to your posts is to try and blow away the popular misconceptions and stereotypes before you set your heart on this.
I mean the reference to Texas and the rose tinted long term thing about raising family etc (And the notion of graduating and walking into 30k and beyond as an apparent given)

Look up Chevron. Petro company with massive presence in the bay area as I understand. Not very Texan. Certainly more out there.

And the country really is so big that plans for one area would probably need to be completely rethought for another.

Good luck. I hope you find what you're looking for though.

Carlo09

Haha ... I know cali is west coast ... and florida is east coast at the bottom... I only ever look at Everything north of mexico and south of Alaska. But my geog is pretty poor to be honest! Not as bad as a 17 year old American girl i spoke to the other day though, who thought England was a city in Europe!

ian-mstm

Well... that would include all of Canada which, while many Americans think it's the 51st state (or at the very least, a poor stepchild), is not part of the US.


The US is over 40 times larger than the entire UK... indeed, 31 of the 50 states are larger than England!

It sounds as though you'll fit in right well over here!

Ian

The Horticulturalist

You've been given some great advice already re getting your masters degree in the USA, that would seem to be your only realistic option in the near future.

If you are serious about getting your masters in the USA, then you've got a couple of years to research where the best places are for you to study to give you the best advantage when it comes to finding a job that will sponsor you for that all important visa.

BritishGuy36

By the time you get that done we'll all be fighting to get seats on a plane to the UK.

Here, the taxes are going up, they're trying to invent a not-as-good-as-the-NHS NHS, joblessness is through the roof with no end in sight, and the country is run by an innumerate moron who thinks he can spend all the cash he wants, and just print more.

Take your time getting here and see if you still want to be bothered with it when the time comes.

Ginblossom

According to ONS,the number of people leaving the UK for 12 months or more reached a record high in 2008, with an estimated 427,000 people emigrating.

Perhaps BG has been out of the UK for too long, you should see what the UK is like these days. As for our wonderful NHS, it is a great system but completely rundown and overwhelmed.

The UK is in the toilet, saddled with crime, public debt and an incoming govt whose stated aim is to demolish any last notion of public service left and put up taxes as well.

Sure the US has plenty of problems, but its rose tinted glasses to think the UK is wonderful, don't believe me, come back for a month or two. You ll be clamouring to get the first seat on the plane.

BritishGuy36

I've only been gone for just over a year.

I don't think anywhere is fantastic to live right now.

Just Jenney

Come on! NO American with any functioning brain cells -- much less a masters degree -- would think that California and Florida are somehow wedged between South Dakota and Wyoming. Personally I think it's kind of scary that someone has decided to move somewhere but doesn't know where that somewhere is located on a map.

~ Jenney

lisa67

The "up side" of coming over on an inter company transfer is that you can negotiate vacation time (to line up with what you'd be leaving in the UK)

Carlo09

I can locate both states on a map.... I just can't put them in relation to other states in words. Like I said cali is on the left at the top , and fl is left at the bottom, it sticks out.