Engineering a dead end career?

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<p>For people who think Engineering is a dead end career, you have got to be out of your mind! </p>

<p>Last week, I became a certified forklift operator because my internship requires that we move stuff around a warehouse and I found the training very interesting.</p>

<p>99% of the guys who were there did not care at all about the training, mostly warehouse workers with only a high school education. </p>

<p>I paid attention to everything they talked about, I learned a lot about the dynamics of a forklift, how the center of mass of the forklift changes with loads, etc</p>

<p>I immediately started thinking about so many things that could be improved as far as forklift design goes, simple things that could reduce accidents and a few technological improvements that would make the whole experience so much better for the operator.</p>

<p>Anyways, I started doing my own research and looked up the top 30 forklift manufacturers in the world: Toyota, Nissan, Cat are the top dogs but there are quite a few smaller companies that do really well.</p>

<p>The #20 forklift company in the world, which has 300 employes and is based in Brazil, started by a Mechanical Engineer has annual revenues of $60 million.</p>

<p>Moral of the story: For Engineers who are reasonably smart, business savvy and think outside of the box, there are so many business opportunities out there!</p>

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<p>Almost every man-made item was (or will be) invented or improved by an engineer.</p>

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<p>Who the hell thinks Engineering is dead end?</p>

<p><a href=“Surprising Facts About CEOs”>Surprising Facts About CEOs;

<p>“33% of the S&P 500 CEOs’ undergraduate degrees are in engineering and only 11% are in business administration.”</p>

<p>“Less than 10% of top S&P 500 CEOs received degrees from Ivy League.”</p>

<p>It looks like getting an engineering degree from anywhere is better than a business degree from Harvard.</p>

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<p>I would always take engineering first compared to business when it comes to education. Because I just think that you can do with engineering so many things and basicly all engineering schools have some sort of engineering/business combination as well so the business is anyways everywhere, but as an engineer you can do more cool things. The only problem I see in maybe making a startup in engineering compared to IT is that in eng. you have to really invest heavy in all the equipment, machines, engineers etc… apart from an IT startup, where you need basicly a desk and a computer</p>