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Those professions you mention share one or two characteristics that engineering lacks:</p>
<p>1) Medicine and Law require postgraduate degrees, while engineering starts out with a strong salary at the undergraduate level. Further, these degrees (unlike graduate engineering degrees) are highly expensive and almost always self-funded, meaning that higher salaries are in part offset by the expense of prepaying or repaying tuition.</p>
<p>2) Medicine and landscaping (and most trades) require an extended period of time before you see the real money.</p>
<p>Engineering is the highest paying profession requiring only an undergraduate degree. Trades (like landscaping) can pay more, eventually, for some, and only after many many years of tremendously low wages. Law pays more right from the get-go, but with a delay of a few years and starting with a big debt. Medicine takes as much as a decade past undergraduate before those stellar paychecks start - until then they have massive debt and little income, and even after that they can see as much as half their salary go to malpractice insurance.</p>
<p>Did your Dad make $75k+ when he first started doing landscaping work?</p>
<p>If you don’t like engineering, there are ways to make more money, and if that is what interests you I heartily encourage you to chase them. I know doctors, I know lawyers, and yes I know a couple of landscapers and other tradesmen - without exception I prefer my comfortable yet “lesser” income to what they endure to get theirs.</p>
<p>And anyway, this should be addressed in one of the other hundred threads that comparing engineering salaries to other fields…</p>