Transfer to chemistry engineer from BS in chemistry?

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Hi.
I’m currently an undergraduate student studying for a BS in chemistry and doing pre-pharm courses (I wanted backup career). I’ve taken anatomy and orgo lectures and labs. What I enjoy from orgo class was that they give you a start and an end, you fill in the rest. I like problems that are like puzzles where you use logic to solve them. Orgo lab was less enjoyable because I get bore looking at procedures and doing them. Also, because I have shaky hands, it was annoying to do things like massing or using a pipette.

I’ve been looking at forums and seeing that the job markets for pharmacist and BS in chemistry are getting worse.
So I wanted to know if I should transfer to a chemistry engineering degree. Strictly speaking, I only want to get Bachelor degree right now, without going to graduate school (college debts pretty much won’t let me).

If I do transfer to chemical engineering, then it will add 2 extra semesters to my expected graduation date along with (+10k-15k of debt).

The things I want from my degree are

-good job outlook being the most important
-prefer a salary of 40k+ after graduating.

Personal hobby: drawing, web design, and programming.

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I enjoyed solving math problems as well since they were logical.

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According to the BLS (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/chemical-engineers.htm) the job outlook isn’t that great. But you can’t rely solely on it.
An engineering friend said at her company chemical engineers start at around $66.9K, but I have no idea how normal that is.
Sorry I can’t help more!

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What year are you? Will there also be extra funds from your parents? (If yes, keep them in the loop too)