Guys, I don't know if I want to be an engineer

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<p>Basically, I've narrowed down my majors to finance, business, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, materials engineering, and computer science.
Yeah, narrowed down... anyway,</p>

<p>I really like to mess around with gadgets and technology, cell phones, etc. so electrical engineering is really appealing to me. But recently, I took a class where a man that taught electrical engineering came in and brought circuit boards and wires, and that bored me to tears. Seriously, it's too much tedious work. Is that really how electrical engineering is?</p>

<p>Chemical engineering and materials engineering to me because I'm interested in manufactured products that improve life. Like outdoor jackets, the material that wicks away moisture, repels water, keeps warm, etc. Or in Batman, Morgan Freeman's character that creates the bat suit that can withstand harm. But I hate working with metal and fire. I don't want to be a blacksmith.</p>

<p>Our teacher gave us a week-long lecture about investing with IRAs, MMA, 401k, stocks, etc., and it really made me interested about investing, especially after he showed us the importance of investing early in life. I would really like to improve my knowledge and maybe help other people with this or be on a board that selects stocks for people. But I hate economics or any other type of theory.</p>

<p>Business has really started to interest me this past year. I have a few websites where I used to do everything, code, design, promote, etc. But this year, The websites have been successful, so I have been paying people to code, design, and promote for me while growing my business and still making money while I am at school.</p>

<p>I'm not really sure what I want to do. I don't want to have a quadruple major, but all these things interest me.</p>

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<p>Links or GTFO.</p>

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<p>I feel you... I'm in the same dilemma. </p>

<p>"I really like to mess around with gadgets and technology, cell phones, etc. so electrical engineering is really appealing to me. But recently, I took a class where a man that taught electrical engineering came in and brought circuit boards and wires, and that bored me to tears. Seriously, it's too much tedious work. Is that really how electrical engineering is?"</p>

<p>I was wondering the same thing... I've only taken computer engineering courses so I wouldn't know the answer to this. Does anybody know the answer to this?</p>

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<p>I'm no electrical engineer, but that's what I always thought it was. Aren't all electronics fundamentally circuits and wires? I'm curious as to what your initial impressions were. What did you mean when you said you like to work with gadgets and technology?</p>

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Seriously, it's too much tedious work. Is that really how electrical engineering is?

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<p>You have to understand the basics and be able to build a simple circuit before you can wire a cell phone.</p>

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But I hate working with metal and fire. I don't want to be a blacksmith.

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<p>Material scientists are NOT black smiths. Instead they research and develop new materials or enhance properties it isn't typical that they actually forge or weld metals--they would leave that to the mill technicians.</p>

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I would really like to improve my knowledge and maybe help other people with this or be on a board that selects stocks for people.

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<p>You DO NOT need a business degree to be a trader/analyst--heck, engineers are typically recruited for these positions. Besides, investing is something that you can and SHOULD pick up on your own. If you are really considering a financial career, look to get your CFA, pass the series 6 or get an MBA.</p>

<p>My point is that most business/money skills can be picked up without a UG major and instead can be supplemented through an MBA.</p>

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But I hate working with metal and fire. I don't want to be a blacksmith.

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<p>Then work with polymers, ceramics, electronic materials, thin films, nano/micro-sized particles, biomedical devices, or any of the other hundreds of subfields materials science is about. Very few of my friends were interested in doing any sort of metallurgy for a career, but they still enjoyed getting their degree in Materials. Also, when you are learning about fundamentals in materials, you will be learning about metals. That's because most of the original research was done on metals, and metals are way closer to "ideal" crystals than ceramics or polymers. In order to understand the more complex materials, it's a really good idea to understand the simpler ones first.</p>

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<p>if it makes you feel better a degree in metallurgy wont even qualify you to be a blacksmith, just as an electrical engineering degree doesnt qualify you to be an electrician</p>