What can I do with my engineering degree besides engineering?
Categories: Engineering Degrees
Im kind of sick of engineering (mechanical), I kind of want to do something else. What are some other options for a guy with an engineering degree thats been out of college for 5 years?
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I have a ME degree and I was beginning to realize by the time I graduated that I didn’t care to be a typical engineer. Around the time I was realizing that, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) came to our campus and did a presentation. I ended up getting into their selection pipeline and went to work for them. The problem solving skills I gained through my engineering education proved to be GREAT skills in this company which provided a TON of training in the in’s and out’s of the consulting world. The other big consulting firms are similar in that regard, I believe. Realize though, that the types of work you can do in such a company can be SO varied that if you talk to 10 different employees there, it could sound like they work for 10 different companies. Not bad, just a fact.
My income also far outreached the path I would have been on if I had gone to work for the other engineering companies I looked at. My friends with engineering degrees who went to management consulting firms had similar experiences.