• 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. 

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.