<p>What about the opposite of this (always outside, doing more testing and hands on work, etc.)?</p>
<p>Personally, I'd rather be in the office more than stuck in a dreary plant or something, that's why I'm asking.</p>
<p>i used to think that i wanted to work in an office, but now that i have my first desk job, i have quickly changed my mind. i use my fifteen minute breaks to go for walks so i don’t fall asleep, but sitting in a chair all day really does stink.</p>
<p>Most of the jobs I’ve seen that aren’t in offices require a lot of physical work like lifting, climbing, standing for long hours, etc. that I don’t want to do (and kind of can’t, due having a spine problem.) I would be miserable doing that all day. I can handle sitting down all day, though :D</p>
<p>I don’t mind sitting down all day as long as I have variety in the tasks I’m doing and I can socialize. I’d like to go outside or see a new environment for my job sometimes (besides my office lol) but I’m pretty sure that all jobs do this once and a while. </p>
<p>And also, being outside in my state is pretty miserable in the summertime, I’ve already worked through that and realized that’s the LAST thing I EVER want to do AGAIN. It’s okay to be in it for a couple of hours or two, but not all day.</p>
<p>Computer science/engineering.</p>
<p>Yeah for CSE, all you do is pretty much code, program, and then if you’re interested in the EE side, you work on hardware but it’s pretty much all indoors.</p>
<p>Any other field besides Computer Science/CompE? It’s not very interesting to me…</p>
<p>Most engineers spend a significant amount of time in the office on the computer, so it doesn’t really matter what you pick. Just seems like a lame reason to pick a career on</p>
<p>I’m not basing the entire career pick on this factor, fyi. If I was, I’d probably pick accounting or anything in the business world. There’s plenty of other fields I would have picked if I was basing it on office work but they don’t interest me. Also, health deteriorates over time, it’s fair to say we aren’t as physically well when we’re in our 20s by the time we will retire. My health is already not as good as it should be compared to everyone else and the last thing I want to do is make it worse from a more physically demanding job.</p>
<p>I don’t want my condition to rule over my life more than it already does. I’d say this matters so the reason is not “lame” in my opinion. I’d like to be healthy for the majority of my lifetime, thank you.</p>
<p>There’s nothing worse for your health than sitting at a desk all day.</p>
<p>I do it, and it’s the thing I hate most about my profession. I would kill to get out of the office. (Although maybe not in Arizona in the summer.)</p>
<p>Industrial Design, though I think its not really engineering.</p>
<p>Arizona is actually not all too terrible outside, but it takes a bit of getting used to. I grew up here, and I’m used to it; the only ones who can’t handle it are the ones who don’t try to. It’s pathetic, really. I’d just prefer to do this as little as possible. I would love to be outside if I lived anywhere even slightly cooler than here, but I doubt I will move to another state even though I would like to.</p>
<p>Back to topic. Yeah, I can see how it’s not all that good. But it’s better than the heat, and it’s better than hauling stuff around all day. A hybrid of this, with more desk work than less, would be great. I assumed that all engineers did some field work except the management positions, which is why I asked what had more desk work. I might be wrong though, considering what everyone else has said. Do all of the fields have desk work?</p>