for me to study Civil or Mechanical Engineering at Uni it is going to cost the same amount as the Jetstar cadetship, take 4 years to complete and looking at the RTA (the Qantas for Civil Engineers) Eba, i will earn $30k the first year and take me a minimum of 10 years to earn 6 digit pay.
You will
NOT earn $30k as a Civil Engineer in your first year.
You will have weekends off and work civilised hours as a Civil Engineer.
It will
NOT take you 10 years to earn 6 digit pay as a Civil Engineer.
My brother is a Civil Engineer. He's on a fly in fly out contract at the moment: $30,000 a month.
You will have a myriad of career choices as a Civil Engineer. If some unintelligible, trumped up little foreign bogan threatens to offshore your job. You can simply tell him to f@ck off and walk.
Justify the Jetstar cadetship any way you want to but it might pay to talk to an engineer or two in the real world. It might pay to talk to all sorts of people in different careers about what happens in the real world