To Study Engineering?

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<p>I just started into my freshman year in Colorado. Right now I'm in the College of Arts & Sciences but am thinking of transferring to Engineering, for the job prospects, comparative financial security, and all those kinds of things. </p>

<p>Engineering interests me, especially structural and I've entertained the idea of pursuing a career in architecture after, but am not certain. However, I'm not someone that eats, sleeps, and breaths math and physics. In fact, math has always been my weak point.</p>

<p>If I were to study something that "interests me" and studied "what I love", I would study english or art history because they interest me. But they interest me enough that I'm going to study them on my own regardless; I don't need to pay thousands of dollars for someone to teach me something I'll learn on my own and I don't think I want a career in those fields. I would like to pay somebody to teach me something I wouldn't otherwise learn or would have no way of learning (I can't exactly set up a physics lab in my room), and in turn have a choice of jobs available to me. </p>

<p>However I do enjoy painting and writing in my free time and I'd like to do both, and hopefully receive some compensation, later in life. </p>

<p>My main question is will studying something so frankly different stunt my creativity? I'm afraid that if I pursue engineering I will be working so hard at it that I won't ever have time to foster my creative efforts. I am smart enough and disciplined enough to pursue a degree in the field (I come from a military family of engineers and businessmen), I'm just worried about surrendering all the things I love in exchange for a degree that will earn me money. But then again, I don't want to be living on the street, or more realistically working a crap job with zero pay, while doing "something I love". </p>

<p>Has anyone ever heard of an engineering graduate seeking an MFA? haha </p>

<p>At the end of the day, I wouldn't mind working hard for many years if I knew I could retire on a ranch and fish and paint and write all day. But if those many years deplete my creative drive then it wouldn't be worth it. </p>

<p>Obviously no one can give me an absolute answer on this, I'm asking for opinions and stories from experience.</p>

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<p>Last semester, I used to belong to the Arts and Science Department (in terms of college placement), but this semester things have changed. I decided to transfer to an engineering department, to the Electrical one to be exact. I was thinking of doing Civil Engineering, but then I went to indeed.com. I made a search in that website and found out that where I wanted to work, there was no Civil Eng. jobs. So I thought, I LOVE civil engineering (it runs in the family), but I need a stable degree that I can cope with. That is where the Electrical Eng. degree came into play. </p>

<p>Currently, I’m enrolled in the engineering department working towards that degree, but guess what? That DOES NOT mean that I will give up my dreams. For that reason, I will either take double bachelor degrees or, after finishing Electrical, I will stay in college two more years to finish the Civil courses.</p>

<p>Another interesting thing that I want to point out is the following: I also write FULL TIME, ALL THE TIME. It makes me so happy and so creative to be an engineering college student and at the same time a full time writer, but there is always a bad part…</p>

<p>I publish my works in Wattpad.com for Free. That’s right…I don’t get paid to do what I love. Nevertheless, I look at the bright side–I’m having fun, and that’s all that matters. I also play the violin when I have spare time (like once a month), since I barely have spare time. </p>

<p>And last, but extremely important, I read the bible every day (if I don’t forget). Since I’m a Christian, I try to stay up to date with what is written in the Bible so religious liars do not confuse me with the lies that they come up with to rid me out of all my money. And if I have school problems, I tell Christ and tell Him to help me and that solves everything.</p>

<p>As you can see, engineering has not crumbled my creativity…it enhanced it! All my ideas come from daily college life, etc., and since I commute, my parents take care of any other problem I might have.</p>

<p>This is my experience (not the whole thing), but in a nutshell.</p>