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$1300 less

Some people would call us plain stupid. That’s the amount of monthly salary KK is giving up - the difference between one job offer and another - because he aspires to get behind an office desk and draw up building designs for the first time in his life, instead of getting all hot and sweaty on a work site which he's done for 10 years.  In a nutshell, his Masters (if it comes through and it should) has finally opened the door for him to join a design consultancy and with a year or two of designs under his belt, he will then be able to try and become a certified Professional Engineer which is, I gather, the top echelon of the profession and which is where I hope he will finally make big bucks to feed us all.  Come Monday he dons his spiffy new work shirts and heads off to an air-conditioned building somewhere in Thomson to work, for the first time in his life, as a Design Engineer.    God bless, in the last three weeks since we returned he hasn't even had to browse through the Cl