OK, I realized that people may actually want counter arguments.
1) you will miss out on a lot of fun in college, forsaking some of the best years of your life.
Bunk. A lot of majors involve as much or more hard work. It also varies GREATLY from school to school. Try majoring in something involving reading a couple books a week.
2) you will miss the best chance you'll have to enrich your mind in a variety of academic areas
May be true in some schools, but not all. There's nothing stopping you from taking other courses anyway.
3) you will be limited to working in a few major cities.
Biggest load of crap so far. This is "true" of a huge number of majors. Try being an unemployed art teacher. Note that I put true in quotes because it's mostly false. There is a concentration, but it's nowhere near as bad as the "letter" makes it out to be and certainly not significantly worse than the average major.
4) the hours will be excessively long
What? This doesn't even make sense. It depends 99.999999999% on the employer, and the rest on the employee. Any field will involve insane amounts of work when you work for some companies. Try being a resident or medical student for once, then come back and laugh at this statement.
5) you will be surrounded primarily be men at work
Define "surrounded primarily by". Makes no sense. Totally depends on the employer, once again. This guy probably works for some huge IT firm with 99% foreign employees and sits in a cubicle surrounded by other engineers and produces products that only other engineers would want. Even then there are probably some women.
6) many if not most of your coworkers are going to be foreigners
Um... well this is true of a LOT of fields. Maybe if you take out the word many it isn't. Furthermore, it does vary GREATLY based on employer.
7) your salary will top out early and those liberal-arts majors will catch and pass you
8) by the time you're in your 30's you will be worried about keeping a job
9) you're NOT going to get into management
10) the long-term outlook for engineers is dismal
These are all basically the same patently incorrect point. I think the person wrote these after reading too many dilbert comics. I have yet to work somewhere that didn't have a ladder that engineers and other technical people could climb. The only reason 7-10 would be true is if the person has no skills beyond their "engineering" skills.
1) you will miss out on a lot of fun in college, forsaking some of the best years of your life.
Bunk. A lot of majors involve as much or more hard work. It also varies GREATLY from school to school. Try majoring in something involving reading a couple books a week.
2) you will miss the best chance you'll have to enrich your mind in a variety of academic areas
May be true in some schools, but not all. There's nothing stopping you from taking other courses anyway.
3) you will be limited to working in a few major cities.
Biggest load of crap so far. This is "true" of a huge number of majors. Try being an unemployed art teacher. Note that I put true in quotes because it's mostly false. There is a concentration, but it's nowhere near as bad as the "letter" makes it out to be and certainly not significantly worse than the average major.
4) the hours will be excessively long
What? This doesn't even make sense. It depends 99.999999999% on the employer, and the rest on the employee. Any field will involve insane amounts of work when you work for some companies. Try being a resident or medical student for once, then come back and laugh at this statement.
5) you will be surrounded primarily be men at work
Define "surrounded primarily by". Makes no sense. Totally depends on the employer, once again. This guy probably works for some huge IT firm with 99% foreign employees and sits in a cubicle surrounded by other engineers and produces products that only other engineers would want. Even then there are probably some women.
6) many if not most of your coworkers are going to be foreigners
Um... well this is true of a LOT of fields. Maybe if you take out the word many it isn't. Furthermore, it does vary GREATLY based on employer.
7) your salary will top out early and those liberal-arts majors will catch and pass you
8) by the time you're in your 30's you will be worried about keeping a job
9) you're NOT going to get into management
10) the long-term outlook for engineers is dismal
These are all basically the same patently incorrect point. I think the person wrote these after reading too many dilbert comics. I have yet to work somewhere that didn't have a ladder that engineers and other technical people could climb. The only reason 7-10 would be true is if the person has no skills beyond their "engineering" skills.
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