Giving up Engineering?

Not this year they won’t be.

As I learned when my daughter applied for consulting jobs through on-campus recruiting, consulting companies recruit early in the school year. Jobs are offered and accepted in November with start dates in the following summer. There are deadlines for accepting offers. It may be possible to stall a company for a week or two (my daughter did this), but not for months.

Other industries may recruit later. Some of my daughter’s classmates had the unnerving experience of being jobless when all around them already had accepted offers simply because the industries they wanted hadn’t done their recruiting yet.

To the OP: Is your daughter interested in taking this consulting job primarily because it’s a bird in the hand and she won’t be able to see what’s in the engineering bush for several more months? That could be a problem, especially if she really wanted a career in engineering.

Bull hockey. Narrowing the scope of one’s expertise into a more specialized area will narrow the job opportunities in this specialized area. And please don’t relate it to some story you supposedly overheard by some cousin or whatever.

Agree with the technical/management track! I’ve worked with probably 200 engineers and Id guess maybe 10 actually designed or did anything technical most were people managers or project management.

Technical is fun, but the latter is the way to go longterm imo.

Thanks @HSP2019 and everyone for all your advice. It is truly appreciated!!