<p>^^ Whatever you do, please do not major in EE.</p>
<p>1) I am just starting the basic Engineering classes. Just switched to Engineering. I should finish in 3 years time, which sucks because I should have picked something practical from the beginning.
2) Both Civil and Mechanical interest me, and if I were to go for Civil, I would minor in Environmental Engineering. Thing is, I do not want to work hard only to not be able to find a job after school, which seems to be the case with most people I know!</p>
<p>Eginox- Don’t worry, Electrical is not my cup of tea. But I heard the job market is terrible for it at the moment. My brother’s friend makes minimum wage when all the hours he goes unpaid get factored in.</p>
<p>I know that the job market is really bad, and that a lot of recent graduates in all engineering majors are having trouble finding jobs.</p>
<p>I think there is one important thing to remember: the current job market, and lack of availability of jobs in certain engineering disciplines, does not render majors in these disciplines useless.</p>
<p>I am graduating late for my age, and so I know students in many different engineering majors, who have not gotten jobs! This includes all majors!</p>
<p>I think we need to look at the current hiring climate in the long term. Is this nation’s infrastructure in pretty bad shape? The answer is yes. That means that sometime in the future, it will need to be repaired/replaced. I have no idea when this will happen, but that means the civil engineers will be needed sometime in the future.</p>
<p>I bet we can find parallels for most engineering disciplines.</p>
<p>Fact is, anybody graduating right now drew the short straw on when they were born. If they’re lucky, they will get a job before they graduate. All that we can do is try to put ourselves in the best situation when we graduate to make ourselves more desirable to companies than our peers.</p>
<p>It’s difficult to predict 4 years ahead of time how the job market will be for your field. I’m looking at a chart of construction jobs in NYC over the past decade and it’s definitely cyclical. As bad as it is now, there are still more jobs than there were in 2004, but less than in 2001. FYI, I’m using NYC figures only because I have them handy.</p>
<p>is the job prospect of EE worse than Civ.E.?</p>
<p>No, I think it’s a little better. An EE education will allow you to easily transfer over to CS work and software engineering, which opens even more opportunities.</p>
<p>Civil Eng. is not always about supervising highrises/roads/bridges. There are civil eng. jobs overseeing the construction of dams or hydropower projects. These could involve some travel. You might find them interesting. Look into international consulting engineering firms for job prospects.</p>
<p>What the hell is it with you people reviving threads that are a year old?</p>
<p>Anyway I have an internship in a civil engineering firm so I’m not as worried about my job prospects that much anymore.</p>