<p>I'm a 2nd year undergrad majoring in BME.
My parents are telling me
1) i wont get a good .. job or
2) it will be unstable and I will be fired before 40s
3) therefore take orgo and go med school</p>
<p>I don't want to be a doctor.
(at the same time, its not like i LOVE bme; i am just doing it to become an ohkay household husband.)</p>
<p>I keep telling my parents, the field is growing, my school is good, if everything fails, i can go into finance,.. etc
Is it really that bad to get a job in BME and keep it for a while??
Is the field really growing ???</p>
<p>what do you guys think of doctor (and medical school) compared to BME (and PhD)?? just as a job and grad/undergrad experience.
I would eventually do either phd or master.</p>
<p>I have a lot of friends who are BMEs and they do say that it is hard (not impossible) to find jobs in the field at this point. However, nano and bio are the two big areas for scientific funding, so the outlook for the future looks good. You are right, the field is growing. Plus, if you are happy, there is no reason to not stay with it. You can always find a different non-BME job if you have to. The people I know who couldn't find BME jobs were able to find good jobs in other fields.</p>
<p>Yeah, i have a couple of relatives and friends who majored in or have grad degrees in BME, and almost all of them are having trouble finding jobs (and most have engineering jobs completely unrelated to bio)... </p>
<p>as Dirt said, a whole lot of research dollars are being pumped into bio-related engineering areas. however, most of this growth will initially be in academia, because many of the promising BME technologies such as "tissue engineering" are years away from becoming commercial therapies. a phd in BME would help you tap into these opportunities. in this case, however, you should be prepared for a research career.</p>
<p>BME is also a good foundation for medical school, provided you maintain a high GPA and do research. however, being a doctor is not a decision that you should make lightly. it's a huge committment (four more years of tuition, and a great deal of time in internship/residency) it appears that this isn't the best route for you, because you don't want to be a doctor.</p>
<p>I have a friend who studied BME and he said a lot of it is related to mechanical engineering. And there are a lot of jobs for mechanical engineers. I know it might be too late for you to change though. Besides what is with all this gloominess about job prospects for engineers? My brother in law has a masters in EE and makes 110K. When I got out of college I made quite a bit over average for a mechanical engineer. It is hard to clump engineering since they go into a variety of fields. Its best to know the salary ranges for that field instead of your major.</p>
<p>I really have no interest in working an actual bme career, or maybe even as a typical engineer. The thing is I dont mind learning about all the subjects, because i find them interesting, but for some reason I don't see myself being happy with the designing and researching that engineers do. I also have no interested in pursuing the med school route. </p>
<p>At this point I feel I need a good undergrad degree to perhaps pursue something in other field, finance maybe, but probably not Ibanking but something more flexible, Eventually once I save a bit of money I would like to start having some kind of small at home business and later move on to other bigger business ventures .</p>
<p>Do not waste time and money in BME. If you want to contribute in the health field, go to medical or dental school and make real money - and not wannabes like everyone else working in health sciences.</p>
<p>toronto guy, please read ... a thread.
many of us do NOT want to be a medical doctor which is.. boring and uncreative (i am talking about practice of medicine itself).</p>
<p>Physicians and dentists don't really contribute to the health sciences. All they do is apply knowledge and technologies that other people (including BME's) have discovered.</p>
<p>If it helps validate your choice of career to think that way - keep doing so. However, the truth is that there is a lot more money and rewards involved in medicine/dentistry than BME. It is a law of supply and demand, as it is difficult to be accepted into med or dental programs. </p>
<p>I had friends that did BME and worked as reseachers in hospitals. They were treated like crap as glorified technicians. </p>
<p>After a couple of years, believe me they applied to med school.</p>