<p>My question is what can an engineer with poor grades do if they want to leave the engineering field. I am not even sure what sort of things to even apply too. I was always taught in a way where you apply to jobs that have direct application to what you studied, but obviously I dont want to... About a month ago I realized I am thoroughly incompetent in ee and can't do it anymore and don't want to. I just started applying to jobs because until about a month ago I was set on grad school for ee, so many jobs have already closed up. </p>
<p>A few non engineering jobs I did apply to, the interviewers come in with a bias against engineers and want to purposely screw me over and keep asking if I am truly interested in the position since I am an engineer. </p>
<p>No idea what sort of stuff I should even apply too. Any ideas please? I am game to work 60+ hours a week in any location whether dangerous or whatev. </p>
<p>Go to a top 10 eng school but not a super prestigious school.</p>
<p>I decided about this time my senior year that I didn’t want to go to Psych grad school. Nor were are there any psych-related jobs you can get with a BA that had any interest for me. Nor did I have any idea at all what sort of work I wanted to do, which made interview questions like, “So why do you want this job?” pretty painful.</p>
<p>I ended up moving back home and temping for a while. I had good office-work skills from the research projects I’d worked on, cheerfully did whatever was assigned to me, and got along with people, and the temp work turned into a permanent position. It took me a couple of years to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, and I did go back to school at night once I did figure it out.</p>
<p>I know plenty of engineering majors (both who performed well and not as well) who have gone into fields like finance and consulting. So long as you aren’t failing, there are plenty of firms looking for students with proven analytic/critical thinking capabilities.</p>
<p>You are very much overreacting to the problem you face in finding a job. After all, you did indicate that you applied to a few jobs and got multiple interviews - that means that they were seriously considering you. But if you keep botching a question addressing a serious concern of them (that you will drop the job and run once you get an engineering job), they will never hire you.
How about you try answering the question here: why should they hire you when you could easily run away at the first opportunity to do engineering work?</p>