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While this may well have gotten you to consider engineering, I would advise making a wholesale career-goal change until you’ve looked into this some more. Do you understand what the career path of an engineer looks like? The courses you take in college to get the degree? I would suggest taking some time looking into these; if you know anyone who has a parent working in engineering, for example, it might be a good idea to sit down with them for a while and understand what the day-to-day life is like, maybe even shadow them on the job for a morning. </p>
<p>Nation-wide, between 1/2 and 2/3rds of the students that start as engineering majors end up switching to something else! I think this is due not just to the rigor of the program (and its hard), but a growing realization that the career they’re training for isn’t really a good fit for what they want to do. It may be engineering is a great match for you and that you can count yourself fortunate that you found out in time, but maybe not…</p>