What Irks Me About Most of my Engineering Courses

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I am going to suggest that you go straight into the business side when you graduate, because I do not think you will interface well with technical professionals. I suggest sales, or “consulting”. In my company, getting into management on the technical side first requires a number of years experience actually working as an engineer, and with this attitude I do not see you surviving long. We get guys who think that they should be in charge. It doesn’t generally work out well for them.</p>

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That used to be true, but one of the things that companies have figured out is that one of the top reasons people leave is because of a bad or abusive manager, and it is cheaper and better for the companies to just hire managers who can get things done without being hated or disliked. I can see you being disliked by a lot of people too, and unless you are truly brilliant in some relevant way (something you have NOT demonstrated on here!) then you will have a poor career, be it on the technical OR management side.</p>

<p>A good manager sometimes has to make unpopular decisions, but they stick because he/she has the respect of their subordinates. A bad manager makes unpopular decisions, and the subordinates know or think that they are happening because the manager is an idiot or a jerk, and they leave, and soon the manager has nothing to manage.</p>