<p>I just want to know what that field provides and what I can get from it as a major. I know a guy in college whose in that major and he says all he does is transfuse and mass produce... sounds like factory work to me.</p>
<p>As with any major, it is what you make of it. There are plenty of job opportunities. With that being said, I know two people who were chemical engineering majors. One of them went to Notre Dame and now he's teaching high school physics (yeah..). The other one was doing something in a lab at one point (basically titrating for hours and hours and hours) but he absolutely hated it and is now unemployed.</p>
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<p>Chemical engineering is a great profession. The chemEs that I knew had more fun than any other type of engineering.</p>
<p>Engineering is work. You can't play video games for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>LOL at lylbeach's post.</p>
<p>Chemical engineering is the most lucrative college major...in terms of average starting salary.</p>
<p>Chemical engineering prepares you for a career in a wide variety of disciplines and industries. </p>
<p>I currently work for an oil major and I've done a wide variety of jobs - currently in the business planning side. </p>
<p>The major will provide you the technical background and skills necessary for an exciting career. Chemical engineers are going to be at the forefront of helping to solve very important problems our society faces - (i.e. energy).</p>
<p>UCBChem,
you said that chem e gets me familiar with background skills. To me, that's like preparing for boring research where all I do is experiment and experiment, like my parent is with microbiology. If I want to look into problem solving, shouldn't I look into general chem?</p>
<p>I just want a major that would use [problem solving], math skills, and science skills. Maybe computer engineering or computer science? IDK
I talked to a guy who goes to cornell and he thinks it's pretty good. I'm just worried I might end up having laser surgery or 2 in thick goggles because of too much computer monitors</p>
<p>^^^^
Any type of engineering sounds great for you.</p>
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you said that chem e gets me familiar with background skills. To me, that's like preparing for boring research where all I do is experiment and experiment, like my parent is with microbiology. If I want to look into problem solving, shouldn't I look into general chem?
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Go back and read UBChemEGrad's post again. You got it completely wrong. It's the exact opposition. In general, engineering is about problem solving while basic science is about doing research.</p>
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With that being said, I know two people who were chemical engineering majors. One of them went to Notre Dame and now he's teaching high school physics (yeah..). The other one was doing something in a lab at one point (basically titrating for hours and hours and hours) but he absolutely hated it and is now unemployed.
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Your unemployed friend probably didn't do too well in school and that's why he could only find boring lab tech jobs. And what's wrong with being a physics teacher in high school, if that's what you enjoy doing?</p>
<p>Nothing, but he doesn't enjoy doing it.</p>
<p>^lol, I hope he's not taking his disappointment out on the kids like mine did. </p>
<p>I don't know anything about chemical engineering, but I would find some more people who did do chemical engineering and she what they're doing now. I used to want to go into linguistics... but then I was told by several people in linguistics there's a narrow window of opportunity. If you're not in immediately, then you'll forever be out. Haha!</p>
<p>do chemicals and computers sort of go together? If double majors doesn't sound too stressful, that might be an option for me because those would be two of my targeted areas.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you with that double major. Either is hard enough by itself.</p>