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<p>How am I wrong? Because you know a few engineers that do that type of engineering work? Therefore because the couple of people you know that do that means that the majority of engineers do the same type of work as they do? Where is you're logic?</p>
<p>Read some of the threads on engineering. It's a dead end job that you need to move out of to make any real money--into the business end of things. The guys selling Boeing planes make much more money than the guys drawing them.</p>
<p>Yeah......engineering is a dead end job which just so happens to be better than 90% of the jobs out there.</p>
<p>More secure, not better. And even that's changing since we started importing engineers from China and India.</p>
<p>Engineering is pretty volatile and has seen massive layoffs from time to time. It is probably among the least stable professions. You want stable be an accountant.</p>
<p>LOL an accountant??????????
they're like the first to go when its layoff time. well actually marketing is...but still. bean counters are some of the first to be trimmed a bit if the company needs to lose some people.
back to the thread:
You hear it like so many times. "Oh I majored in law but I decided to be an accountant instead." basically business is something almost everyone can do. You don't need a lot of background to get started and it is DEFINITELY a lot easier than say Physics or Chemistry. basically just a lot of analyzing.</p>
<p>If you want security start your own company. You're certainly not going to fire yourself.</p>
<p>that doesn't mean you'll be making money either.</p>
<p>business is easier than the sciences but harder than the liberal arts, its in between, a mixture of both if you will.</p>
<p>But from a job security point of view, there's not a single job that is more secure than working for yourself. I'm pretty sure you're not going to fire yourself.</p>
<p>Liberal Arts < Business < Sciences</p>
<p>F(x) < G(x) < H(x)</p>
<p>F(x) = H(x)</p>
<p>Therefore G(x) = Value of F(x) and H(x) by the Squeeze Thrm.!!! </p>
<p>That is... you cannot go wrong with any major.</p>
<p>working for yourself is hardly the best job security, well it offers very little job security unless your business becomes established, and then you still have less job security since there is the high probability than your assets wont be protected becuase most business dont operate as corporations.</p>
<p>For one thing Tennis--the better accounting jobs are not within businesses but with Accounting Firms. Recent changes to reporting laws have made this a booming field. Partners at the Big 4 make very nice incomes. And due to reporting requirements and the need to keep count of funds through good and bad times, accountants are rarely the first to go at any company. That was just a dumb uniformed statement.</p>
<p>Engineering jobs are more stable then accounting jobs? ROFL. Gotta love CC's humor.</p>
<p>accounting firms actually suck in comparison to work found outside of public accounting, that is unless you make partner, which few do. Ask most accountants that have had stints at one of the big 4, when they found a job elsewhere, most of the times, their salary went up and their hours down. Bet then you have deloitte and touche where most of their partners where employees right out of the college, they left and than came back, weird huh?</p>
<p>People have this idea that engineering isn't stable? Engineering has a low unemployment rate. About 3% if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>Since I duel majored in both physics and accounting, I can give you a good opinion on this.</p>
<p>A lot depends on the school that you are at. Not all business curriculum are equal. For example, taking business and CMU or Wharton would be very difficult regardless of the concentration.</p>
<p>I certainly feel that as a general rule, math, physics, philosophy, chemistry, and engineering is harder than most business majors. The only real exception is accounting. If a school uses real CPA exams in their courses and tests, accounting can be very difficult and come somewhat close to matching that of chemistry and even physics,although I do think that physics is still tougher than accounting overall. </p>
<p>Finance would be the second toughest major especially if you are majoring in computational finance, which is like math or actuarial science. For the most part, however, finance is not as tough as accounting.</p>
<p>Engineering has had wild swings in unemployment. Look up some of the stories from California when the dotcom and aircraft industries went belly up. Many of them never got jobs in engineering again. When the contact for the SST went away in Seattle in the 70's there were massive layoffs and a sign wnet up--"Will the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights."</p>
<p>Statistics is way harder than Business field including accounting.</p>
<p>Oh and there are harder test than the CPA. Way harder test in the professional world.</p>
<p>When some accountant decides your job is no longer needed, well you can take solace in your thinking that his major was easier.</p>