<p>This got to be the most surreal discussion ever. My dad is an engineer. An industrial engineer to boot. He is still ****ed to this day that he didn’t opt for accounting or int’l commerce or whatever back in his university days. very rarely, in fact, have i met engineers who recommend for their own sons the career paths. most engineering students i have met seemed to have fallen in love with science on a whim, and not out of following of any convention or tradition.</p>
<p>people who think their engineering diploma, with a mba tacked on, is a ticket to success, are idiots, pure and simple. i know a couple people who are doing that. (guess who won’t be the big donors at the Old Boy functions, wink wink) for some, it is just too darn hard to realise that the world they seem to think they are still in, i.e., the engineering/management combo the golden passport in Industrial America, is long gone and won’t ever be back. anyone who thinks otherwise are deluding themselves. It almost feels like a time warp to back when that idiot Jimmy Carter was president when people talk about their “golden plan” of engineering undergrad plus MBA for the “perfect set of skills” to “succeed in the business world.” this is the modern, career, equivalent of Carter telling people to use less electricity.</p>