<p>The thing is noone is getting “avg engineering salaries” The actual unemployment rate for college grads is 22%. Combine that with underemployment, and you have 31%
you are going to be competing with people in china and India for jobs as well as all the old folks that have about 20 some-odd years that have been laid off. </p>
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out of your comfort bubble of average salaries and step
in the real world some.</p>
<p>Given the current environment a bizcon degree would at least not cost much in debt and time and is much more versatile than an engineering degree.</p>
<p>Engineering is getting to be more like a blue collar profession these days where engineers are seen as an expendable resource that can be replaced with cheaper labor in countries that barely pay enough to their citizens to afford bread.</p>
<p>Engineering has been going downhill since the 80s and it’s continuing downhill, but you’ll see when you graduate. A bachelors these days
is a dime a dozen, I don’t want to spend 7 years doing it. I should have just applied to Davis, sjsu blows.</p>
<p>Googled homer28 I’ll look into it more l8er. Seems like we might hit it off.</p>
<p>Yes, I don’t really care about what im doing “degree wise” but in the long run I would like biz more. Either way I planned on doing jobs in business industry with my engineering degree anyways.</p>
<p>I also considered industrial, but I would have to go to cc for another year to get the prereqs and it may take me 3 years after that. Basically me being in college for another 4 years is not what i want.</p>
<p>I can’t stand the thought of my friends graduating in a year and me taking 3-4. I rather just drop out then be in for 4. It’s an utterly revolting thought.</p>
<p>That is false. It wouldn’t be average salary if no one was getting it. Clearly someone is getting it. I have a whole lot of friends who got offers making average or better and a whole bunch more that were just a little below. I myself got right around the average when I graduated in May 2009, right in the middle of the recession. I decided to go to grad school instead though.</p>
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<p>Clearly you don’t understand how unemployment works… or percentages. The unemployment rate includes all of those college grads, and it is in the 9% - 11% range (haven’t seen it lately).</p>
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<p>What world do you live in? You know that most jobs that business majors are qualified for, engineers are also often qualified for, right? It doesn’t work the other way around though.</p>
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<p>See, I did graduate in the middle of the recession. I had a job offer designing nuclear submarine fluid systems. I had another offer designing jet engines. Somehow it worked for me. But I guess that the engineering world is still ending. Carry on…</p>
<p>It’s not about the profession, it’s about the degree. No major can offer me the “type of job I’m looking for” because a major is merely an entry ticket into the job market. I just want a major and college that’s not going to waste my time and money and can get me there in 3 years from now.</p>
<p>From reading these posts, it appears that you (collegeduffer) just want a bachelor’s degree and have no desire to work in engineering. Correct me if I’m wrong. Are you basically looking for the easiest major now? If this is the case, just cross the engineering majors off your list. There’s no need for any more discussion.</p>
<p>CollegeDuffer, you are freaking me out. You’re basically replying to your own posts and arguing with yourself in this thread. </p>
<p>You have 40 years to work after you graduate college. You’ll work probably 2,000 hours/year. You need to find something that makes you proud of yourself. Almost all professions are dry at times, so I won’t say you have to like it. </p>
<p>I am personally studying to be an engineer because it makes me happy. I’m not doing it for the money. I’m doing it for personal pride, to challenge myself, to contribute to the country, and to give myself a career.</p>
<p>I just failed the prereq test, so not doing EE anymore. In the long run I plan on being operations/supply chain manager.</p>
<p>I basically chose engineering for the wrong reasons and am ****ed now that it’s taking so long. I’ll try to find a major that gets me out in 3 years. Either Econ or some engineering. I don’t plan on working an engineering job though. Like I said maybe operations manager. Or with big 4 as financial analyst or something else. </p>
<p>My gpa is only 3.0 in engineering so I doubt i’m gonna be able to switch to Davis.</p>
<p>You’ll have a great shot at big 4. I’m sure they are salivating at the chance to have an engineering dropout who can’t get into a UC. Good Luck though.</p>
<p>It’s funny because I could care less about education, seeing as how I have quite a few relatives working as a senior head of hr at places like Pricewaters and dt? Have fun submitting online applications though, I’m quite sure my uncle would be quite happy to toss your MIT resume in the can.</p>