<p>I started out my undergrad in EE, and while I liked working in projects and labs, I was bored with my linear circuits class, and switched my major to math and economics. I am now a senior, and since then, I've taken fairly boring economics classes and am now going to work full-time in investment banking.</p>
<p>However, over the past year, I have been thinking about my future, and I now feel like I should have given engineering more of a chance. While my job will pay well, I worry that I'm not actually interested in finance/economics. I feel like engineering would be more fulfilling, more intellectually satisfying, and I think that I get along better with engineers than w/ finance guys (I have a lot more engineering major friends, and, I admit, I'm a dork). </p>
<p>I've maintained excellent grades at a top 20 school, and I think I'd possibly like to do EE again, or maybe try another kind of engineering. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to really try out a bunch of things. </p>
<p>I'd like to know if anyone out there has made this kind of a switch before, or has thought about it, and what one would have to do to make it. I think the most reasonable step would be to take a few classes and then go for a master's, but what do you guys think? Am I being irrational by thinking about switching? When is it too late to make such a drastic career change?</p>
<p>I've been stuck in a somewhat similar dilemma to have to question my decision of undergrad degree after completing it or wanting to do it all over again.
I came to this School only coz of great financial Aid package and although enginnering was my passion, the School didn't have that program, so I got stuck with a wonderful financial package and not-so-fulfilling academic accomplishment.</p>
<p>In my case, I made my mind to got to Master's for Engineering.</p>
<p>In your case, u shud b happy that u got an opportunity to try out the file of Econ/Finance in real world. Since you don't like it, and have a previous experience of engineering, you shud def. try M.E., too. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>I'm not sure that I understand how far you got in your EE coureswork.</p>
<p>If you have not taken physics and any EE classes, I don't think it possible to succeed in a MSEE program. If you completed all the standard junior year EE courses - then maybe you can do it.</p>
<p>I'm sort of making the switch - I was a neuroscience major with a bunch of supplementary math and CS courses as an undergrad. I work as a software engineer now, in a research-oriented job. I like software engineering, but am thinking that I would like to get a master's in EE, CompE, or systems engineering, so that I will have a better qualified in the hardware arena and be able to do research that has both hardware and software aspects (and also, I just think neuromorphic engineering is nifty). Computer science would be fine too if the program doesn't ignore hardware.</p>
<p>You're ahead of me because you already have a strong EE background, but here's what I'm doing:</p>
<p>I'm taking classes - one grad, one non-credit - in analog circuit design and radar design, respectively. I'm applying for a post-bac program in computer science - one of the stated purposes of the program is to prepare students who didn't major in computer science for graduate degree work in computer science or related areas. I also intend to take the digital design counterpart of my current analog design class. I'm hoping that once I finish the post-bac program (assuming I get in), I will be able to get into one of various local part-time master's programs. If I don't get into the post-bac program, I will take similar classes without being attached to a program.</p>
<p>I'm a member of the IEEE (as many software engineers are) and the AIAA (because a lot of my division's work is software for aerospace applications), and through these I gain access to a variety of educational opportunities, such as short online courses. I have in fact taken a bunch of the IEEE's short online courses in various EECS subjects, and they're the ones who provide my non-credit radar design class (which is neither short nor online) as well. I think that with a math degree you can join the IEEE as a full member.</p>