Who majored in Engineering?

[bob2200]

I'm a retired Elec. Engineer. College courses are difficult for engineering and pay is just OK to good. You can tell where the pay is low compared to the educational requirements by where there are shortages, e.g., nurses, engineers. The really wealthy used to be medical doctors but are now lawyers, although there is great variability in both professions.

There are interesting jobs in all fields. I was also an Air Force reservist, and the military can be a great career choice, even for a music major, but you need to get into an ROTC program.

[rominl]

Originally Posted by Coconut

In high school, their were alot of people who said they wanted to be engineers. Engineering was one of those careers everybody wanted to get into because it pays alot but in reality we have no idea what it really is. In real life I've met very few engineers who said they were happy of their career choice. Only exception would be those top level engineers who work for large OEM's and engineers who get to develop leading edge tech and processes.

i am engineer and i totally not agree that engineers get paid a lot. just like almost every other job out there, there are good pay and there are bad pays. some of my friends are engineers and their pays aren't very impressive, and i know engineering friends who are earning a lot.

in the end partially i think still depends on how good you are. if you are good, then you are able to do something interesting, you like, and get paid well. if you are not doing something you like, then you will be struggling and yet not able to do well to excel

also keep in mind, EE is a HUGE field and there are so many areas. you can be in ASIC, analog, systems, electronics, products, testing, etc... even if you are in EE but if you fall into the wrong field you will still be suffering

Originally Posted by ExTrEmE99

The thing is, i really like building/fixing electronic items and working with hardware/software.

So when i looked into majors i looked found: Electronics engineer, industrial engineer. Both require a lot of math but only the normal chem/physics..

what you see in real world can be very different from what it is when you treat it as your major though. of course everything has exceptions, but interest in building electronics is only a starting point toward a major or future career in it. and a lot of times the education (math, physics, etc...) is there to give you the fundamentals for future tough / cutting edge problems, so you have the basis to go solve the problems