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Anonymous wrote:People in my extended family have tended to be good at math and attracted to engineering. But every engineer but one in my family eventually got sick of it and quit to do something else. Sometimes they went on to higher paying things, sometimes they went to lower paying things. The one who didn't quit feels stuck but doesn't know what else to do. Many find it a tedious field with little upward projection and not much intellectual challenge after you know what you're doing--and that can be a real bummer for someone who is smart. It's great the first few years--but many didn't even last ten.

Sounds like any other jobs.
Engineers usually move up to project manager, tech lead, chief engineer, architect, director, VP, etc. management positions

Anonymous wrote:I work in tech. You can become a lobbyist with any kind of undergrad degree and out earn all these engineers. They’ll be reporting to at some point.

Or parlay your undergrad degree into sales and out earn them that way.

Anonymous wrote:People in my extended family have tended to be good at math and attracted to engineering. But every engineer but one in my family eventually got sick of it and quit to do something else. Sometimes they went on to higher paying things, sometimes they went to lower paying things. The one who didn't quit feels stuck but doesn't know what else to do. Many find it a tedious field with little upward projection and not much intellectual challenge after you know what you're doing--and that can be a real bummer for someone who is smart. It's great the first few years--but many didn't even last ten.

Anonymous wrote:I work in tech. You can become a lobbyist with any kind of undergrad degree and out earn all these engineers. They’ll be reporting to at some point.

Or parlay your undergrad degree into sales and out earn them that way.

Anonymous wrote:I work in tech. You can become a lobbyist with any kind of undergrad degree and out earn all these engineers. They’ll be reporting to at some point.

Or parlay your undergrad degree into sales and out earn them that way.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people don’t know ever become CEOs. For every English/history/poli sci major making $$$$, there are hundreds if not thousands of them sitting in the basements (or childhood bedrooms) of their parents’ homes and doing nothing but tweeting how unfair and unjust this capitalist society is. At least the Starbucks baristas have gainful employment.

Not all engineers are rich but most of them are able to put food on the table, and more.

Engineers aren't who they are complaining about when they decry capitalism, it's billionaires who are tilting politics for their benefit and evading taxes. Engineers are working schlubs like everyone else. And it looks like all college grads on average are earning enough to put food on the table and more.

Engineers sure do seem to know how to beat a dead horse though. Must be all the emphasis on redundancy in design just bleeds through to everything else.

You can sit in your basement and pontificate day and night about how your English degree is superior to an engineering degree until a Chinese hypersonic missile hits your basement.

It has just as much likelihood as hitting yours. (And I don't have an English degree, just think it's funny to keep you going on this).

Haha. Let Stalin execute those with useless degrees or make them break rocks in hard labor camps 😁

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Anonymous wrote:Same after 10+ years

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/20/highest-paying-college-majors.html

The college majors that pay the most for mid-career workers

Top 10 majors by median salary for graduates who are 35-45 years old
The table shows the top 10 college majors that pay the most for mid-career workers.

Chemical engineering $120K
Computer engineering $114K
Aerospace engineering $112K
Electrical engineering $109K
Computer science $105K
Mechanical engineering $105K
Miscellaneous physical sciences $104K
Industrial engineering $100K
Miscellaneous engineering $100K
Civil engineering $100K

And remember, folks, this is a list of undergrad degrees only. So, no need to post, "But I was an English major, and now I'm a lawyer earning 5x that much".

So the vet in the OP post didn't need grad school? And non of the engineers here got a masters?

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Anonymous wrote:Most people don’t know ever become CEOs. For every English/history/poli sci major making $$$$, there are hundreds if not thousands of them sitting in the basements (or childhood bedrooms) of their parents’ homes and doing nothing but tweeting how unfair and unjust this capitalist society is. At least the Starbucks baristas have gainful employment.

Not all engineers are rich but most of them are able to put food on the table, and more.

Engineers aren't who they are complaining about when they decry capitalism, it's billionaires who are tilting politics for their benefit and evading taxes. Engineers are working schlubs like everyone else. And it looks like all college grads on average are earning enough to put food on the table and more.

Engineers sure do seem to know how to beat a dead horse though. Must be all the emphasis on redundancy in design just bleeds through to everything else.

You can sit in your basement and pontificate day and night about how your English degree is superior to an engineering degree until a Chinese hypersonic missile hits your basement.

It has just as much likelihood as hitting yours. (And I don't have an English degree, just think it's funny to keep you going on this).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people don’t know ever become CEOs. For every English/history/poli sci major making $$$$, there are hundreds if not thousands of them sitting in the basements (or childhood bedrooms) of their parents’ homes and doing nothing but tweeting how unfair and unjust this capitalist society is. At least the Starbucks baristas have gainful employment.

Not all engineers are rich but most of them are able to put food on the table, and more.

Engineers aren't who they are complaining about when they decry capitalism, it's billionaires who are tilting politics for their benefit and evading taxes. Engineers are working schlubs like everyone else. And it looks like all college grads on average are earning enough to put food on the table and more.

Engineers sure do seem to know how to beat a dead horse though. Must be all the emphasis on redundancy in design just bleeds through to everything else.

You can sit in your basement and pontificate day and night about how your English degree is superior to an engineering degree until a Chinese hypersonic missile hits your basement.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people don’t know ever become CEOs. For every English/history/poli sci major making $$$$, there are hundreds if not thousands of them sitting in the basements (or childhood bedrooms) of their parents’ homes and doing nothing but tweeting how unfair and unjust this capitalist society is. At least the Starbucks baristas have gainful employment.

Not all engineers are rich but most of them are able to put food on the table, and more.

Engineers aren't who they are complaining about when they decry capitalism, it's billionaires who are tilting politics for their benefit and evading taxes. Engineers are working schlubs like everyone else. And it looks like all college grads on average are earning enough to put food on the table and more.

Engineers sure do seem to know how to beat a dead horse though. Must be all the emphasis on redundancy in design just bleeds through to everything else.