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04-28-2008, 10:27 PM
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| this is not about what is hard or not in school. | 
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04-28-2008, 10:32 PM
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ya kno, i always had the impression that a mechanical engineers can pretty much do whatever it is civil engineers do.
| Civil engineering is not just structural engineering. There are about four or five different branches. | |
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04-28-2008, 10:39 PM
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| But shouldn't the most respected major or high impact engineering discipline pay the most? In that resptect, computer engineers and computer science is the answer...I may be wrong...I was just seeing it from the money aspect. | |
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04-28-2008, 10:41 PM
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But shouldn't the most respected major or high impact engineering discipline pay the most? In that resptect, computer engineers and computer science is the answer...I may be wrong...I was just seeing it from the money aspect.
| I respect cops and firefighters much more than I do investment bankers and lawyers. Cops and firefighters... do not make more than IB and law. | |
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04-28-2008, 11:24 PM
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| From the money aspect, its almost always econ 101: supply and demand... Hence, the engineer who gets more money should be the more respected, on average.
But I like ken285's approach much more... a social worker building schools in third world countries with $1000 should be respected regardless of their income. | |
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04-29-2008, 07:02 AM
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| ya, his approach works, I guess there can't be a defining factor to determine how much money one would and should get and certainly no definite factor in basing a major with salary and money.
Guess it's luck and a bunch of other factors... | |
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04-29-2008, 08:55 AM
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ya kno, i always had the impression that a mechanical engineers can pretty much do whatever it is civil engineers do.
| And conversely, structural engineers can pretty much do whatever it is that mechanical engineers can do. Plus, they've got courses in dirt and concrete and hydrology and whatnot, same as the rest of the civils. Quote: |
I respect cops and firefighters much more than I do investment bankers and lawyers. Cops and firefighters... do not make more than IB and law.
| Seconding this. | |
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04-29-2008, 05:56 PM
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| I'll say nuclear engineering. Noone else has. ;-) | |
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04-29-2008, 05:56 PM
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| I'll say nuclear engineering. Noone else has. ;-) | |
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04-29-2008, 06:58 PM
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| id have to say textile engineering. its beats out nuclear by a little bit | |
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04-29-2008, 08:02 PM
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| ^ humankind can't function without clothes, thats right. | |
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04-30-2008, 12:36 AM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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| EECS generally. The bottom of the ladder would be poop. And below that, Civils. 
Waits for the aibarr slap...
Seriously, all these jobs are needed, they are required by our economy some are in more demand than others. Engineering, of any sort, is a highly respected profession. | 
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04-30-2008, 12:40 AM
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| noones said anything about aerospace engineering | |
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04-30-2008, 12:41 AM
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| **** someone did | |
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04-30-2008, 07:18 AM
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Waits for the aibarr slap...
| Below poop? No, that's funny and parodic, in a South Park kind of way. I'm leaving that one alone. | |
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