Engineering => MBA => Consulting

<p>Engineering is a labor of love, that's why the pay sucks so much. So, I wouldn't recommend majoring in engineering if you don't want to be an engineer. </p>

<p>I've been engineer for 8+ years and, until recently, have loved it. I too am greedy. I want better security for my family and that means more money. So, I start my MBA studies in 2 months, and will be done in 2 years. I am an excellent troubleshooter and have great analytical and quantitative skills. Still, my most valuable skills are my people skills. I have networked my way into 2 of the top pharma/biotech companies in the world and have performed well there, as an engineer. </p>

<p>Interpersonal skills are highly desirable not only in the engineering world but the business world, so don’t sell them short. It is who you know, not what you know. What you know will get the job done, who you know will get you the job.</p>

<p>Another thing to consider is that it’s not what you know, it’s what you know best. I use to think that being a jack of all trades was a good thing. No challenge to big. However, companies don’t want a know it all, and they definitely don’t want someone who can do everything. They want someone who has focused on one of their God-given strengths and honed it to such a perfection that they couldn’t imagine what their company would be like without them. If you want your strength to be troubleshooting than engineering is probably good. However, if you want the really big bucks I would try to hone a strength that can lead more clearly into a leadership role. Most engineers who have made the big bucks aren’t great engineers, they are great leaders and innovators.</p>

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From wikipedia, one of the richest man on earth..</p>

<p>Mukesh Ambani holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), which is now known as University of Mumbai, Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT). He began the MBA program at Stanford Business School, but dropped out after his first year in order to assist in his father's ongoing efforts to build the Patalganga petrochemical Plant.

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<p>A perfect example of how who you know is far more important than what you know, I'm pretty sure his rich dad would of passed his fortune on regardless of whether his child had a degree in engineering or liberal arts.</p>

<p>Was Ambani's dad that rich?</p>

<p>Dhirubhai</a> Ambani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>

<p>was not the richest man in the world, but was substantially wealthy. It is not rare to see children of wealthy people go on to be well educated and help expand the family business which is already successful to a huge enterprise.
It is not impossible to become wealthy growing up poor, however when you grow up in a family that has a ton to invest your chances of staying in the upper class are far better. Plenty of people can run very successful businesses, they just don't have the capital. For wealthy young people this can be hard to understand. I personally come from an upper middle class family, but I have seen many very smart people held back due to financial limitations. That's where we get the saying "it's not what you know its who you know"</p>