Originally posted by: Anubis
i didnt major in engineering but its what i do now i majored in physics
money is always the wrong reason to do something, you want to do what you enjoy, people become teachers because they want to not for the money cause it isnt there...
engineering can also be boring as hell depending on what you do, 1/2 the time im doing something cool and 1/2 the time im fucking with data in excel
Yeah, if you're going to choose a major based on money alone, maybe go to medical or law school.
Originally posted by: intogamer
Isn't it expensive also?
Maybe for lab fees, but they're a few hundred a semester - change compared to tuition, which I assume is the same regardless of major, but I could be quite wrong.
I'm in a 4 year MET program. I was originally in mechanical engineering, but I got tired of theory, theory, theory - I never got to see any of the uses of anything I'm learning. I was told that the mechanical engineering technology program was a bit more hands-on, so I switched. The classes seem to spend less time deriving equations, instead opting to simply go right to applying them. Or at least that's what I think is going on.
I'm
sort of in it for the money - I hear about $40K+ starting salaries. That's a bit less than the combined income of my parents. Paying for a family of 4, or paying just for my expenses - with that, I'm hoping for a reasonably quick payoff of my student loans (probably around $20K by the time I'm done). ME seems like something I'd be good at, and (hopefully) it won't bore me too awfully much, though I do tend to get bored with things rather quickly, usually after 2 years, sometimes less.
Definitely don't go into engineering if you hate math. Math is our way of describing how the Universe works, and if you want a machine or circuit to work, you're going to need to use math. Lots and lots and lots of math work. A fair portion of my classes involve learning equations, and how to apply them. Fortunately, we get to use an equation sheet on the tests - my professors are more concerned with us learning the concepts, rather than spending time memorizing equations. After enough use, memorization will simply happen anyway.
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