- If you want to go to medical school, get an engineering degree on a pre-med track.
- If you want a job in finance, be an engineering major, with a minor in economics or finance, or maybe even a double major.
- If you want to be a teacher, be an engineering major, with a teaching certificate.
- If you want to be a writer, get an engineering degree and then go write.
- If you want to be an economist, get an engineering degree for your undergrad – and then set off toward graduate school.
I can think of no better background education than an engineering degree.
It is also an amazing thing to have to “fall back on.”
Especially when life happens.
- When medical school turns out to not be what you thought it would.
- When you can’t get a job in finance as easily as you thought.
- When you decide you don’t want to be a teacher.
- When you are not able to get a booking agent.
- Or, when you drop out of grad school and don’t know what the next step should be.
You can do electrical engineering if you like electronics.
Aerospace engineering if you like planes.
Chemical engineering if you like chemistry.
Industrial engineering if you like factories and production.
Civil engineering if you like architecture and construction.
Petroleum engineering if you like nature.
Computer science if you like computers.
And mechanical engineering for the more general.
When I was finishing high school, my dad told me to study engineering, like he did. He got a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering.
Now I know God has a plan for us all, but sometimes I still wish I had taken his advice.
I think “pursue what you love” and “follow your passion” is great advice for a career, but horrible advice for choosing an undergraduate degree.
And remember:
You can be good at more than one thing.
Take 4 years while you are young and add “engineer” to your skill-set list.
I will never pressure you in your vocation.
But maybe I should in your education?
Quite simply:
Get a degree in engineering.
I love you.
-Dad
Selfishly: Here’s a new job board!