<p>i have no idea what I want to do. someone is discouraging me from becoming a teacher and majoring in education. he/she wants me to go for engineering which i have a feeling i won’t like. I have NO interest in designing and building buildings. I can’t see myself enjoying that.</p>
<p>Is engineering all about designing, constructing buildings? Aren’t there specialized fields in engineering that I can look up to see if anything fits me? Do all engineering jobs have to do with designing, constructing buildings, towers? All engineering jobs? I need some insight.</p>
<p>I’m gonna meet with my counselor to talk things over but if you have any information you can spare about the major “Engineering”, tell me! Thanks!</p>
<p>Engineering is a broad field. Civil Engineering has to do with construction and such of buildings, but that is only one part of engineering. There are also Electrical, Computer, Biomedical, Chemical, Biological, Aerospace, Nuclear, Software and more engineering disciplines.</p>
<p>Usually anything that people use, used an engineer in its making at some point.</p>
I like how you respect others’ kind advice, and I appreicate you didn’t blindly follow what others say to you.</p>
<p>WHY? You just said you want to become a teacher.
As Kalo mentioned, it’s a very broad field.
Look it up engineering. You have civil doing the construction, mechanical, electrical, computer engineering, environmental, financial engineering, aerospace engineering, nuclear engineering, biomedical engineering, biological engineering, chemical engineering, industrial and operation engineering…
and then if you consider crap “engineering majors” like social engineering from UPenn -.- and sound engineering, light engineering… you name it.</p>
<p>Let’s be serious. Regardless, you will end up doing two things: brainstorming and analysis: actually everyone does, even as a teacher. Planning a lesson is extremely time consuming.</p>
<p>And what’s so wrong about designing buildings? ;)</p>
<p>(That’s what I do.)</p>
<p>Truly, though, engineering is a very, very broad field, as everyone has said… It’s taking science and applying it to problems in the real world to solve them. If <em>that</em> sounds like something you’d be interested in, then engineering might warrant further investigation. Nothing wrong with teaching, though, if that’s what you really want to do. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>As I was reading aibarr’s comment, I realize I miss a point. If you want to teach science or math, or technology, it can be very cool to do engineering?
Note that engineering can open you to a broader world. When I say broader I mean that you allow yourself to live in the theory and the application. That’s how I feel. Even if I don’t end up being an engineering (who knows!!!), I don’t mind, because I enjoy learning the stuff in class.</p>