Goods and Bads Of Engineering – Advantages and Disadvantages
Good:
- Everybody comes to you when they need to know something (good job security).
- You will always be able to find work (if not in engineering, then as a teacher; engineers make VERY GOOD teachers).
- You start out making between 40k-60k a year straight out of school. And it can go up fast when you switch jobs and have good experience.
- Everybody thinks you’re really smart.
- You never have to make minimum wage again.
Bad:
- 1) Everybody blames the engineer first. Well, everybody, except the engineer, but they think it. lol.
- 2) Horrible male to female ratio.
- 3) You have to work hard to get what and where you want.
The work of engineers touches almost everyone every day through food production, housing, transportation, communications, military security, energy supply, water supply, waste disposal, environmental management, health care, even education and entertainment. Technology is more than hardware and silicon chips.
In propelling change and altering our belief systems and culture, technology has joined religion, tradition, and family in the scope of its influence. Its enhancements of human muscle and human mind are self-evident. But technology is also a social amplifier. It stretches the range, volume, and speed of communications. It inflates appetites for consumer goods and creature comforts. It tends to concentrate wealth and power, and to increase the disparity of rich and poor. In the competition for scarce resources, it breeds conflicts.
Category: General Engineering
