<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am a senior and high school and am thinking about majoring in EE.</p>
<p>I am very good in Math and I enjoy Physics. I very much like computers (I built my own computer freshman year) and dealing with devices such as phones, ipods etc. </p>
<p>I heard CE and EE were very close, but EE major could do a CE's work so that was the better degree to get.</p>
<p>Do you think I would like it?</p>
<p>What is the life of an EE like? After all of this stress and work in school I want a job that pays decent but doesn't consume my life like school does so I can focus on my family and recreational type things once i get home from work.</p>
<p>EEs usually enjoy dealing with abstract theoretical concepts that you can’t see but are technically there, such as electromagnetism.</p>
<p>I recommend you take an electromagnetism physics course and if you enjoy that then you will almost surely like EE.</p>
<p>My dads friend is an EE and works 9-5 days, gets 3 weeks paid vacation.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that as an engineer it will be your responsibility to occasionally work overtime to complete projects by the deadline.</p>
<p>If you enjoy math and physics, then odds are that you would genuinely enjoy just about any STEM discipline. Things you might look into are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Electrical engineering</li>
<li>Computer engineering</li>
<li>Software engineering</li>
<li>Computer science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
<li>Math</li>
<li>etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you genuinely like computers and want this to be a focus of your degree, you might have to work a bit as an EE major. I’m sure coverage varies, but you’d get more computer training as a CE. While an EE might be able to do a lot of the work that a CE does, a CE can do a lot of work that CSs/SEs do. Note that EEs do a lot more than computers (power, communications, electromagnetic theory, etc.).</p>
<p>I hope this is somewhat helpful.</p>