<prompt> Human: Im a mechanical engineer graduate with a few years of experience. I cant find any jobs paying more than like 60k per year in Chicago. Its kinda depressing how underpaid I am when I know forklift drivers making more than me as a mechanical design engineerWhat advice do you have for finding these 100-200k per year jobs? Seems like they dont even exist Update: I have a mechanical engineering degree from a good engineering university. Think of like MIT but without the recognition. Part of design teams that competed against MIT and such.I design automation machinery using Solidworks 3D that make x amount of parts per minute from scratch. I generate quotes for new business. I manage workloads for the machine-shop employees. Ive even gone as far as installing machines at customer companys that I designed. I definitely think Im worth over 100k as is.  <response>: Stop using your piece of paper to justify how much u should be making. You need to have experience, marketable skills, and be willing to move around to find the jobs you want. If your current job is building your experience in a marketable skill that pays what you want, then stick with it until you can find a better paying job, if not, then make time after work to learn said skills and gain experience and look for jobs. 