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As a Geological Engineer who works with many other engineers (Civil, Mechanical, Mining, Environmental...) frequently i want to add: Field Jocks (Site Engineers, Drilling Engineers, Project Managers etc.) Pros: -High base salary, almost always. Somewhat double with mandatory overtimes when you are behind the clock, which is all the time (especially for Civil Engineers) -Highly sought after, almost guaranteed employment after few years of experience. -Companies pamper field engineers with benefits since they are the ones who burn out faster. Cons: -Insane work hours (hope your overtime compensates it). Think your social life was bad during college because of classes and exams? You will miss those days dearly. -Sometimes you became so good at what you do and it becomes near impossible to replace you. So you might not become a manager but be drat sure that you will be paid like one after 7-10 years. Office Nerds (Design and Control Engineers) Pros: -Decent pay. -Better social life (depends). -Benefits of a big office. Cons: -You can be replaced easily compared to field specialists (sometimes a good thing when you want a managing position). -Office politics. I have worked on both sides and choose being a laboratory engineer and hopefully a specialist in the future. As for my field, soil testing engineering can be pretty boring and fun depends on what you know about your subject. If you don't know much about problems and their solutions it feels like you are doing same thing over and over again. Until now i have met three types of engineers: People who don't give a flying gently caress about being good or bad engineers/professionals and just in it for the money (easy to spot from their jaded approach to new things and "why fix something not broken" approach), people who are not overly excited about being an engineer but love what they do and lastly people geniunely excited about metal pipes, dirt or whatever and can't think about doing anything else. I think i am in between type two and type three. I am not mad about Geological Engineering but i enjoy solving problems, being a part of great projects and generally being productive. If i was given a second chance i would definetely choose Physics (and even now considering getting it as a second undergrad degree). That being said i love engineering as a career option. If you want to make big bucks and get sucked by your hot secretary during lunch break, go for business, banking or law. If you really want prestige and bragging about how awesome you are, be a doctor. If you want to be paid handsomely and build awesome stuff, be an engineer (and for the love of god get an intership during undergrad)
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Just got rejected from ETH (the Phd required a masters degree but i went anyway so i had it coming i guess), great school for engineers and amazing labs for science nerds maybe i should start with masters first.
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