<p>So I really want to major in engineering but I dont really have an interest in it. I'm academically strong but my interests lie in areas where I won't have job and life security and thats very important to me. I want to be a lawyer when I grow up and I feel like getting an engineering degree is best cause if I dont go to law school or if I find that law ISNT what I expected I can have a very safe and successful career. However in class I suck at the actual building stuff. I can do math and stuff but I have so much trouble viaualizing mechanisms and actually building the projects. I'm a junior in high school and I dont know what to do because I'm trying but I'm really not good at it and I know in college that I will have a lot of big projects and my grade will rely on how well my projects turn out. I really wish I was into engineering because it seems like a perfect job :( Any advice or experience? </p>
<p>Engineering can be very miserable if you have no interest in it whatsoever. There are other paths that lead to a stable income, and engineering most definitely is not what you could call a perfect job. </p>
<p>Personally you don’t sound like you have any interest in engineering except for the job prospects. The coursework is tough for just about anyone, but it can be downright miserable if you have no interest. But maybe you’d like industrial engineering? It’s a more business-oriented engineering degree that deals with improving production; in a lot of ways it is a quantitative business major with a few basic engineering classes thrown in. You should look into it.</p>
<p>What about patent law?</p>
<p>Don’t do engineering if you don’t like it and really don’t have any aptitude toward it. You will be miserable (if you survive, which is very much in question) and you won’t make a lot of money at it. Sure, you’ll make some money, but the real good salaries go to those that are good at what they do. To be good at it, you really need to enjoy the work.</p>
<p>Do you think its possible to develop an interest in engineering/ learn to like it? Cause my parents really want me to pursue it and they say that I’m just making excuses and if I set my heart to it, I could do it 
although I honestly deep down dont really want to but I wish I did</p>
<p>My husband is an EE. He supervises people that he knows just went into engineering for the income. They are the worst employees because they cant be left alone to do projects since they don’t understand the process behind engineering. They don’t get promoted and raises are based on performance so they get passed around to different departments to see if they can “catch on” to something. They usually don’t. Don’t do engineering because you will hate your classes and your grades will tank since the major is so hard and no amount of motivation can increase some of the grades in the classes. I’m sorry, but I think your parents are wrong to force the issue.</p>
<p>It’s possible (though the reverse is much more likely), but frankly it seems like you are grasping at straws to try to convince yourself that it will be so. You simply don’t sound like the engineering type. </p>
<p>If you’re good at “math and stuff” then you’re better off then a lot of engineering majors when they start. I’m sure if you go into it you’ll do fine. </p>