Why 75% of Engineers Will NEVER Work As Engineers!!

I still think engineering is your best bet if you want a good job. Also university is a time to explore what it is you actually want to do. So don't feel bad if you find you aren't interested in your main field of study, and I actually encourage testing out different classes that interest you. Thanks for watching!

What’s frustrating for us History majors is knowing that civilization needs engineers a whole lot more than it needs lawyers.

I saw this in action. When I was working a tech support job, a co worker had an enginnering degree. He was teasing me about my "Useless" philosophy and psychology degrees. I got the last laugh in the conversation when I pointed out that we have the exact same job role.

Graduated in EE in 1980, made good money, saved up. Retired early with a FAT pension. I couldn't do that today. Ever since Jack Welch laid off thousands of Engineers, the fix has been in. Companies that used to hire people out of college, and train them (me included), won't do that anymore. Rather, they just bid against the few candidates out there. I became a Manager mid-career, which gave me longevity and a higher salary. But, then they told me that we were going to cut some engineering salaries by 40%, and I knew the whole "STEM" shortage crap was total BS. I've felt that way for a long time. To beat the system, get a plain vanilla Engineering degree with "Average U", that doesn't break you, and then get certifications in those things that are "hot". After that, move into management. Oh, and ignore everything management tells you. They're probably lying...

In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, companies would hire new grads out of school and put them directly into training programs. Then starting in the 80s, manufacturing went offshore and companies started demanding that engineers have a few years of experience, and with each decade that passed the level of experience companies demand are ever increasing. When engineering grads see how near-impossible it is for them to get work, they switch to another career.

The answer is simple, most products need 2-5 engineers, 5-10 practical engineers, 50-100 people with technical skills without any higher education.

I went to a career fair right after university and there was this employer who had a sign showing how much each entry position pay is expected to be. The chef gets paid more than engineers which shows that the company values the guy who cooks eggs more than the people actually running their facilities

Shockingly, I graduated college with a degree in electrical engineering and landed a job directly relating to electrical engineering and it’s a pretty great job too. Biggest advice I can give to people in college or recently graduated is to just apply to everything you possibly can and something will show itself

I have a Mechanic Engineering degree, graduated top 10% . I cannot get a job worth squat. Don't listen to the stupid stats. It's very hard to land or maintain an engineering job.

50 years in electrical engineering. 50 years of continuous educating myself. So much fun. Didn't want to retire.

One reason engineers have trouble finding work is that the field that traditionally needed engineers, manufacturing has been drastically curtailed in the US and Canada.. Companies will say that they don't have enough engineers applying, but that's in order to open up the employment market to the world. More competition, and also better to hold down wages.

I am an older guy who worked a full career as an Engineer, or as an Engineering manager. I think I can add perspective to this discussion. I found two things often happen to engineers. One is that many folks start out as Engineers but 5 - 10 years into their career, they take other roles within the company. Often the jobs are promotions and pay more than an engineering role. A common thing was for Engineers to progress in the Engineering ranks, then at some point take a job as a project manager, production manager or construction manager or similar. Very often an Engineering Background prepares you for other careers; for example my friends in Finance often say that they like to hire Engineers as Financial Analysists because we can master the math easily compared to others. The second occurrence is that Engineers choose to get advanced degrees in other fields, for example an MBA or Law degree. Very often a Lawyer with an Engineering background is desired in areas such as patent law, or for litigation involving technical issues. Michael Blomberg received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, never worked a day as an Engineer. Me, I loved my Engineering career and never regretted putting in the time and effort to get my credential.

I got a Mechanical Engineering degree back in the early 80s. I went into engineering because the calculator had come out and I thought it would be more fun to solve Physics problems with a calculator instead of a slide rule. And it was, but I never used the calculator much in my jobs. Still, no regrets. It was a good career and gave me a good retirement.

A job as engineer requires the right attitude, soft skills and personality traits. They don't hire you because you have a degree but becuase you are brillant. In the past holding a degree in engineering was a guarantee to be brillant, nowadays education has become an industry like any others and churns out as much graduates as possible. Having a good referral is a great way to land a job, as unfair as it may sound.

I think the main reason is you can’t expect high school students to know what they want to be at 17 or 18 just because they are good at math & physics. After 4 years of hell with non inspiring engineering professors, most don’t want to be engineers. I had ChemE degree from UCLA but MS in Organic chemistry and worked as pharmaceutical chemist. Many of my classmates went onto Med schools , MBA or law schools. Only about 1/3 became engineers

the STEM shortage has always been a lie, at least for the past 30 years

I'm an electrical engineering technician. My job is to maintain telecommunications equipment. I don't have an engineering degree. I just got this job because I did something similar in the military. I have a few coworkers who have actual electrical engineering degrees, but are technicians instead. What I often tell young people in high school is to get a trade job to see if they like it, and if they want to go to college, take college part time while they work. If they don't like college, then they can do trade jobs instead.

Money has left engineering jobs. Meaning, in 1990, I knew millionaires whom started as programmers. However, it was not long before employers, went to the government to reduce wages, by asking the government to import more L1 and H1B visa holders, so, they could pay less. this has been going on for 40 years.

I left Electrical engineering and went into computer science and I never looked back. Financially rewarding and challenging

2 months into my engineering program, I wanted to quit and my parents didn't let me. It took me little bit longer than others to graduate but I wouldn't want it any other way now, I am so glad I never quit on it!