For the past few years, I have been living in disgruntle from some wrong decisions which I have made. Mainly the Electrical Engineering Degree which I have taken. To start with, all the promised talks about having value-add that an engineer can give to the society and whatever pitch talks of "The best goes to engineers", turn out to be blatant lies.

While my peers in Finance industry can probably predict a 6 figure salary in 2,3 years time, I see experienced "PROFESSIONAL" engineers struggling to hit 50, 60k. You can't blame society for that. People in finance, bring in the money directly. Engineers do not bring in the money for you. Engineering is all about safety, which equates cost, hints liability. People don't pay you for saving their lives when they aren't dead yet but you don't mind giving you a slice of the pie if you can make them richer directly.

And one more thing which I feel I should do for society and namely, kiddos still in school. Spread the word, engineering sucks as a career. Please, unless you are some academic geek who wouldn't mind having your fortune capped by some research fund, I advise you to ply your trade elsewhere. For anyone who is thinking about switching from engineering, grab your balls that you left down the hall and just DO IT.

Spend long hours reading a useless Physics book that teaches you nothing that can be used in real life. OK WE ALL KNOW THAT A BALL FALLS IF WE LET GO, HOW MANY PAGES DO YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN THAT? Not to mention the useless math, triple integration; you wont find that at the cashiers. Whereas business students don't study, party all day, and after a few years get paid more than engineers.

One of the courses required for an engineering degree is Engineering Economics. After analyzing the cost to obtain a degree in Engineering compared to the actual salary, it is easy to see that it is a very bad investment. Take Engineering Economics first and run the numbers. If I had I would have changed my major.

All I know for myself, is that I always have a hunger to succeed, although I have been pretty lost for the past few years. And I intend to do something about it. How I will go about doing it, I don't intend to disclose at this point in time. I may not be guaranteed success, but it sure beats rotting under the piece of toilet paper that has "Bachelor in Electrical Engineering" on it.