<p>whether you like accounting dance or English it doesn't matter, do what you love, but do have respect for engineering. What I don't think you guy's are realizing is that engineers have critical jobs, if a engineer messes up, people die, people don't die if you mis calculate a number for Ernst and Young. For this reason our education is ongoing and lasts forever and its rigorous.</p>
<p>As a computer/electrical engineering student I can tell you the ideas we go over in engineering are rather intense, if you didn't know that already. In our 4 years of undergraduate education we learn the basics of what we really need to know, the fundamentals and if ya didnt know most of our classes are just introduction classes to ridiculous advanced topics.</p>
<p>id like to run this you are accountants or business people, you go to work and can I ask you what does your work, what do you do your work on, who wrote your ERP software, who made the computer you are using, who designed it. </p>
<p>How critical is the software you use or will use on a daily basis. There is so much money moving around, all of this is not magic. Its done by engineers and scientists. sad part is you guys need computer science guys to do your job for you. sad</p>
<p>Frankly, this thread has gotten off track. We are responding to the post about business and accounting majors.</p>
<p>UB-Vinny77: Whether Engineers make as much as accountants is irrelevant. We need both types of people in our society. If you love engineering, you will do better and have a better life than those that are accountants but hate it.</p>
<p>Lets all agree that both professions are necessary and move on.:)</p>
<p>sure they do. if we make software that lets say lands a airplane in a airport and a calculation is messed up, or we calculate the weight of the cargo on a plane. Just one of the many ways a CS people can **** up and kill.</p>
<p>Investment bankers and the financial markets that they helped create are the reason that the US has one of the best economies and living standards in the world. Do you think engineers in Europe are any less intelligent than US engineers? They aren't. However, no other nation has the intellectual firepower that you can find in Wall Street at Goldman Sachs or other bulge bracket investment banks.</p>
<p>UB-Vinny, but I am sure you do realize that if the business markets as we know them ceased to exist, most engineers would become unemployed also.</p>
<p>Computer/Software Engineer would have no work as bankrupt businesses will not need to develop software. </p>
<p>Mechanical Engineer- no money in economy = little money for people to spend on mechanical engineers</p>
<p>Civil Engineer - in a severe depression, their only hope would be a New Deal Style program to increase public spending. otherwise they would be in trouble.</p>
<p>Aerospace Engineer- less work, especially with how much business women and businessmen use airplanes. if airlines aren't profitable businesses, they wont hire engineers</p>
<p>geotechnical engineers would be alright. (if they received any funding at all) </p>
<p>It is also worth noting that at all levels, engineers are the direct servants of businessmen. Or in some cases, the federal government( corrupt businessmen).</p>
<p>plmok I ask you to look at the financial market in London, which will soon surpass(if it hasn't already) New York as the world's financial capital.</p>
<p>Ok smart guy, then lets go a level lower. The businesses that supply engineers with raw materials will fail to stock them because they know they will be unable to sell them at a profit.</p>
<p>Response to Mr. payne, check out this interesting fact about London.</p>
<p>London handled 31% of global currency transactions in 2005 — an average daily turnover of US$753 billion — with more US dollars traded in London than New York, and more Euros traded than in every other city in Europe combined.</p>
<p>Taken off a quick search of wikipedia. Mind you I have no interest in promotion London as financial capital of the world, as it is in my best interest for New York City to stay strong.</p>
<p>I think people are confusing the academic major and what is important in the real world. While science is important to the world, most of the contributions are done by PhD research. Most undergraduate majors in science/engineering make little or no contribution to their field and that's just the reality. Therefore, saying that engineering or business is more important to the real word is totally irrelevant. Heck, I think it can argued that english is more important than both.</p>
<p>As for whether a business is challenging or not is also irrelevant. You will be competing against people of your same major, so the difficulty of your major is not of the highest significance to people who look at your transcript.</p>
<p>London has and still is number one in cash flow, surpassing nyc</p>
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<p>This is the most retarded statement in the world.</p>
<p>Engineers would have gotten nowhere without the financial backing of financiers. And don't EVEN say that engineers don't need any money because they do.</p>
<p>I agree. Both engineers and financiers/businesspeople are necessary parts of society. Carry on...nothing to see here.</p>
<p>I won't necessarily say business major is weak and stupid. I just think what they teach in business classes are pretty much common sense with few exceptions in particular fields like accounting, business law and business jargon 101.</p>