<p>No offense, but the ones who are in engineering for money are by far the worst engineers. If you want money, go be a doctor or go into finance.</p>
<p>I don’t want a dr in it for the money</p>
<p>Just like a doc, engineers have an important role to play and incompetence could = disaster.</p>
<p>I just don’t think anyone would want you to design the electrical system for their brakes or the bridge they’re about to drive across or the nuclear reactor powering they’re town. I’d much rather have someone who studied their discipline because they were interested in it and had a passion for it than some dude looking for his next paycheck. Odds are the guy who got into engineering for $ just won’t cut it. I’m still appalled the first few answer to this thread were “money.” I think every engineer reading this thread feels similarly.</p>
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<p>I absolutely feel this way. I mean even the doctor thing applies better to engineers - if the engineer who designed the x-ray machine was incompetent, you might be in just as much trouble.</p>
<p>Where did the connection between wanting money and incompetence come from? I would think most competent people in fact do want to make money.</p>
<p>Well, i like engineering. I find it interesting. Im good at it. Plus, i want to learn more and improve my skills. But i also like money and hope to live a comfortable lifestyle</p>
<p>Am i incompetent?</p>
<p>Well to be fair, I took your guys’ original posts and all I could think about was an LSA kid realizing he couldn’t make enough money with his liberal arts degree and somehow transferred to COE (or something like that). Obviously there’s a huge difference between “I can’t make enough as a ____, I’ll be an engineer!” and “I’m good at math and science, engineering seems like a profession with some good monetary gain.” So I guess my incompetence post wasn’t necessarily directed at you if you fall into the latter category. </p>
<p>Also, MLDWoody, I would wait until sophomore year until you declare yourself “good” at engineering. I certainly didn’t find out before I stepped foot on campus. Math/science, yes. But that’s not necessarily engineering.</p>
<p>“If you want money, go be a doctor”</p>
<p>WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.</p>
<p>^^i guess ur tight</p>
<p>^^i guess ur right. Well im good at math and science and problem solving</p>
<p>I’ll put in my $.02 here.</p>
<p>I have not always wanted to be an engineer. In fact, I first seriously thought about engineering three years ago.</p>
<p>When I first entered university, I wanted to start my own business. I took two semesters worth of business courses and was bored out of my mind, and my grades showed that. I transferred into biomedical sciences, and although I found it interesting, I didn’t like memorizing anatomy and physiological processes. Then I found engineering.</p>
<p>I really like engineering because it gives you the opportunity to be constantly challenged and solving problems, from very simple to complex. There is also a good psychological reward when you come to the end of a complex problem to find that you did indeed come to the right conclusion. It’s this self reward that makes me not even mind doing homework or projects (most of the time at least).</p>
<p>And yes, money was part of the reason I changed. Switching to engineering meant that I wouldn’t have a full-time job until I was at least 25 or 26. I had to figure out if it was worth it to spend the extra years in school, and rack up the student loans, to pursue the field. I concluded that an engineering salary would let me pay back my student loans quickly and support a family, if I wanted to have one, soon after I graduated.</p>
<p>So I didn’t pursue engineering because compensation was good, but the decent rate of compensation made it much easier for me to decide to pursue engineering.</p>
<p>^exactly**</p>