Is it wrong to pursue engineering because of prestige and social status?

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It’s my understanding that Cymer’s largest division relates to DUV and EUV light sources, which fits with the first sentence of the job summary I listed. The most common job titles among Cymer employees on Glassdoor are intern, electronics engineer, business analyst, and systems design engineer. No software focused positions rank among the top 20, but they do employ some software engineers, mechanical engineers, physicists, among many other fields. I didn’t see any positions specific to aerospace.</p>

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You could also become the next millionaire right out of college by joining a startup that does very well through stock options, if you major in a hardware related field. Or you could start your own company, if you have a decent skillset. I started a successful Internet company not long after graduating college, even though I did not major in CS. . It’s obviously far smaller than Facebook/Dropbox, but it grew large enough to become a greater source of income than my day job in engineering or what one could hope for through a standard salaried SW/HW eng position.</p>

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Or you might trust a national salary survey more than a comment you found in a thread on reddit., such as the Georgetown and Payscale national salary surveys that found average starting salaries were near $60k, higher starting salaries for EE than CS, as well as a lower unemployment rate for new grads in EE than CS. </p>