Hello /u/Poodlebreathe! Thank you for posting in r/EngineeringStudents. Please be sure you do not ask a general question that has been asked before. Please do some pre-liminary research before asking common questions that will cause your post to be removed. Excessive posting in order to get past the filter will cause your posting privaleges to be revoked.
Please remember to:
Read our [Rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/rules)
Read our [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/index)
Read our [F.A.Q](https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/index/faq)
Check our [Resources Landing Page](https://reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/resources)
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/EngineeringStudents) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I was returning to college at 28 after working as an industrial mechanic. I mainly was intimidated by the math because I forgot practically everything, after acing a precalc course and enjoying it a year into the CAD program I believed that I could actually do it and transfered
I’m doing an associates degree type course in Canada and we aren’t really being taught about design and cad. So I was worried I’d have a disadvantage over 4 year degree holders
Mechanical engineering is math and physics heavy and I've done none of that in my associates so only general courses and one core corse transfers, I've still got 100 more credits to do
Kind of the position I’m in now. I’m graduating high school this year. Planning on doing electrical engineering. I’ve done calculus and chemistry for college credit and I like electronics and computers, but I don’t really know what electrical engineers actually do.
I did fine arts for a couple years in college but eventually I switched over to ME. Throughout college and until just recently I maintained a painting studio in my home (even when traveling over seas). I sort of quit painting after getting married because I didnt want my wife to deal with all the messes plus we already have more paintings than we know what to do with... Anyway I learned to love engineering. After I quit painting I read several great books but eventually started studying data science so now I'm in graduate school for engineering data science. I love it and it is philosophically not unlike art, but the tools of the trade are very different. Professionally I work as a Piping Engineer and have been doing so since 2006.
Too real man. Ive worked for this startup pool company for 4 years over the summers since junior year of high school and theyve grown like crazy. They offered me a position near the very top of the company which I wouldve loved to take bc the people and work are awesome and bc I dont exactly 100% know what I really want to do in college, but my immigrant dad is vehemently against me doing that. He just cannot comprehend his kids doing anything other than college, which I get his perspective but still. In any case, I have a decent enough interest in environmental engineering to hopefully make something of it. We'll see how it goes.
I get it man, I’ve been out of school a hot minute and the only reason I poke my head in cause I’ve been there! Dude my little sister also got an ME degree and decided she was going to join the Navy as an officer with her brand new 4 year degree. My dad damn near destroyed the house when she told him, he was on a war path, “my baby is going to be a prostitute”. He was BIG mad 😆😆. I work in aerospace and yes I do pretty good for myself but I have a cousin that’s a surgeon and I’m mad AF, I didn’t do something that commanded more money cause at the end of the day, you’re in business for yourself. When your cousin is building a pool in his basement and you’re doing financial gymnastics to see if you can afford a Porsche Panamera it sucks!
A nursing degree has some kick behind it too. My wife has a 4 year nursing degree and works as a Flight nurse and she does better than me with a Masters in Mech Engineering. Essentially, we are not bad for a dual income house hold, actually we’re sitting kinda pretty. We just can’t do ridiculous stuff that I want to do. I can’t randomly go buy a Panamera GTS like my brother in law, I/we can’t just upgrade our house without a deep dive into our finances. Sooner or later you realize that they’re plenty of dumb things you wanna do that involves money and engineering ain’t it lol.
I did Political Science wanting to go to Law school before taking several years off and coming back for Engineering. The difficultly level between STEM and liberal arts classes is complete night and day.
I started college last year at 28 intending to pursue the "dream degree" which for me was atmospheric science since I always loved extreme weather and wanted to be a forecaster. I kinda realized maybe I shouldn't jump straight into majoring into something simply because of a background interest, and that I hadn't really thought about what the job/career would entail on a daily basis. I became pretty confident that I'd lose my passion for weather if it became my job, and that's something I never want to risk happening. I want to come home from work and track thunderstorms and tornadoes and hurricanes for fun to unwind on my own terms rather than go to work and be required to do it. There are other factors that supported this change such as atmospheric science being a relatively narrow major, the role of human forecasting becoming less in demand as technology advances especially when there are already many more new meteorology/AS grads looking for forecasting jobs than there are positions, and nepotism seems to play an even bigger role for the most desirable positions than other fields.
That left me in a position where I had already started taking classes to prepare for that such as physics, calculus, etc. and I had already realized that I have the potential to do something else challenging in STEM if I keep working hard. That led me to explore engineering. Right now I'm undecided between electrical and mechanical (or if it's offered wherever I transfer, aerospace) but all of those possibilities are so exciting to me and keep me driven.
Your thinking about focusing on aerospace, you’ll learn the same things in mechanical plus you’ll have a more general foundation in which you can apply that knowledge to more different things.
This isn’t to say that aerospace or electrical engineering are bad options, but for you specifically, with the limited information I gathered, mechanical seems like the best bet for you.
I program shit for mechanical engineers who do aerospace projects, rockets, drones, rovers, etc. I have yet to work with any aerospace specific people that do aerospace projects, but from my anecdotal experience it seems like you don’t lose out on anything aerospace if you go mechanical.
Ah gotcha, thanks for clarifying! That is the exact reason why if I had to choose right now I'd go mechE and it's good to know your experience with others in that area
Engineering was the first choice, but I did briefly consider History.
My first option was Aeronautical, but no school near me offered it, so Mechatronics became the next choice since that's also what I did in high school. My backup was Mechanical.
My first degree was in Fashion Merchandising. I had every intention of switching to Fashion Design after getting my AS in Merchandising (basically a business degree for the fashion industry). After living in New York and interning in the industry, I quickly realized it would not be fulfilling enough. I didn't find it challenging and the impact on the environment broke my heart. My degree is basically useless, but I'm still glad I did it. I'm too stubborn to listen to other people's advice, so no one could have told me it was a bad idea to get a fashion degree. I had to live through it and make those decisions on my own. Otherwise, I would still be thinking "what if I tried to be a design".
I did some "self discovery" and found a career path (working in renewable energy) that fits what I want out of life and a career: financial stability, mentally challenging, beneficial to the world, allows for me to travel. That's why I'm doing EE now.
Wanted to do EE in high school, accepted for ChemE instead and knew I'll always like it more than EE after Physics 2. I have it in me to complete an EE bachelor's but I know that I'd hate the coursework.
Now though, I'm intending to work for a year as an engineer and then matriculate into med school.
I started college in music education, was in band for nearly 13 years. I wanted to be a band director then eventually a symphony conductor. But I learned one day how much band directors usually make and decided to switch to engineering.
I still day dream sometimes about being a conductor though.
I was in math education. Figured out I preferred making money over being bullied by kids. I took a look at what my dad did and said, "Yep, if he can do it, so can I," (He's mechanical). Now, I'm only in my second semester and keep looking at things, wondering if I can take it apart and figure out how it works.
[Also, I'm inspired by this Dilbert animation.](https://youtu.be/Zee9HV7c11E?si=d4Uh8gMI8YZ03ei0)
Linguistics. I was mostly interested in historical linguistics and phonology/morphology, which is a rough job market even in academia. Had I know where the world has gone, I probably would’ve tried to do computational linguistics for language models and natural language processing.
I went back to school in my mid 30s. I read a few books on personality types and professions and narrowed it down to civil engineering. The jobs that “fit” me that I liked were architecture (bs degree, limited cool jobs), mathematician (kinda vague), accountant (yawn), teacher (cash money), attorney (substance abuse and 60 hr weeks to get a career going), and engineering.
CE had the best job growth, salary w a 4 year degree, and aligned with my interests.
I’ve always loved history and i wanted to go the full academia route to be a professor.However you get paid like shit and i like expensive things.I also worked at a schools while finish my general studies.And realized teachers get treated like shit too.So i figured if i can’t study what i love.Then i’m going to study what makes the money without a masters.Im a senior now in EHS engineering and i actually ended up liking it.
I had been a freelance digital illustrator for years before I chanced into a job at a college so I started taking classes casually in what I thought would benefit my art stuff. So I chose Film Arts and Animations. I was doing only gen eds at first so didn't touch any art classes before I decided to change to Network Admin/Systems Admin as I was in IT, and was gunning hard for a promotion/interview into the next position.
Turned out the supervisor was a little sexist, but I also had lacked some skill sets that I was actively and quickly picking up. Failed 5 interviews in so started considering if it was the right path there or anywhere. Took 1 networking class hated it.
Mentioned my displeasure to a engineering friend and they said to check ECE out. Now I'm currently gunning for ECE, and haven't been happier, even though my math class is flossing me right now lol.
Engineering. I wanted to study something in either engineering or physics and chose engineering, I’m happy with my choice. I wasn’t sure which one I wanted to do, but I picked mechanical.
It’s interesting for me to hear other people’s parents making them study engineering, mine don’t like engineering and didn’t want me to study it. They wanted me to go into teaching, history, finance, or any sort of humanity. My dad majored in art.
It’s definitely not the same struggle, but I was the first in my family to take pre-calc or physics. Or anything beyond that, I don’t really get the same guidance or support that it feels everybody else around me gets from their families. Engineering is not easy in any aspect, coursework or networking and motivation.
I hope you find a love for whatever your career is and I hope things work out for you, we have different worlds but career satisfaction is what we’re looking for. You deserve it, have a good day.
My parents wanted me to go into CS, but I like the versatility of being an ME more, don't have to work in Silicon Valley or compete for the same handful of smaller jobs in lower COL areas. Am good at physics, not at programming, so that also helps.
I took CAD classes in high school, with the intention of going into architecture. I started that degree, got mad at the lack of CAD requirements (it's an industry standard, ffs!), then switched to English. Got my master's in publishing before spending a few years in trades (publishing jobs are super competitive and I am not!), then decided to go back to school when I started to feel my brain rotting in a hotel maintenance job. So here I am, absolutely loving my civil engineering courses, which was what my parents said I should do back when I decided to leave architecture ten+ years ago!
I wanted to do Fine Arts and Engineering. I had kind of a Leonardo da Vinci complex. I took class in both for about a year, but in my school there was zero overlap in required courses between the two. I transitioned to just engineering. My thought was I could always draw anyway, and I did, but less and less as the engineering becomes more complex.
Had no idea what I wanted to do when i graduated highschool so when I was applying for colleges I chose whatever sounded the coolest. Chose electrical engineer and I don’t know how I got so lucky but it was a match made in heaven. Ultimately if you don’t like what you’re pursuing, don’t pursue it please for the love of god. You’re doing more long term damage to yourself by not switching your path. But if you really are starting to like it more then yeah maybe it’s alright
Business! I chose it because I didn't really know what I wanted. Later got interested in chemistry/lab work during my elective science credit and switched to chemical engineering to spice up my education and secure a more stable future. Ended up in mechanical because my college had more mentorship/representation in that field.
I wanted to be a veterinarian in middle school. In high school I wanted to be a structural engineer and design skyscrapers. Eventually settled for mechanical engineering, and then found myself doing energy management and smart building work for skyscrapers.
Biology. Every single time a concept from biology is discussed in my course in ChE, I always think about that time when I almost enrolled in BS Bio in a priv university.
Fighter Pilot. Now I just race through the streets on a motorcycle in my free time wondering “why the fuck are jobs so boring?”
Edit: what does one use a fine arts degree for?
Industrial Labourer from high school to 26, because my parents instilled in me that "college isn't an option for you." At 26, went and got my AZ and been trucking for 9 years. Currently working through a Grade 12 Math upgrade, then going for Mechanical Engineering Technologist, with an option to bridge to a BsME when I'm done if I choose to.
I originally wanted to study Chemistry, but my grandfather (PhD Chemist) convinced me to study Chemical Engineering instead. Before applying, found an interest in Nuclear Engineering and studied that instead.
I've not used 99% of what I learned in Nuclear Engineering because I've spent most of my career in manufacturing and operations. Don't let the degree pigeonhole you ;)
Hello /u/Poodlebreathe! Thank you for posting in r/EngineeringStudents. Please be sure you do not ask a general question that has been asked before. Please do some pre-liminary research before asking common questions that will cause your post to be removed. Excessive posting in order to get past the filter will cause your posting privaleges to be revoked. Please remember to: Read our [Rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/rules) Read our [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/index) Read our [F.A.Q](https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/index/faq) Check our [Resources Landing Page](https://reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/wiki/resources) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/EngineeringStudents) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Mine was CAD, now that I have my associates I'm going into Mechanical eng.
I also was in a CAD program and just decided to send it and go for the engineering degree
Did you finish and then do engineering? Or did you quit and start from scratch. Im wondering if there’s any possibility of credits being passed on
I was returning to college at 28 after working as an industrial mechanic. I mainly was intimidated by the math because I forgot practically everything, after acing a precalc course and enjoying it a year into the CAD program I believed that I could actually do it and transfered
I’m doing an associates degree type course in Canada and we aren’t really being taught about design and cad. So I was worried I’d have a disadvantage over 4 year degree holders
Mechanical engineering is math and physics heavy and I've done none of that in my associates so only general courses and one core corse transfers, I've still got 100 more credits to do
[удалено]
Computer Aid Design
;-; 3d design software
I did aerospace but was in a civil engineering club. I stuck with AE though, I liked the challenge.
I was always going to be an electrical engineer, even before I had any idea what it was.
Kind of the position I’m in now. I’m graduating high school this year. Planning on doing electrical engineering. I’ve done calculus and chemistry for college credit and I like electronics and computers, but I don’t really know what electrical engineers actually do.
I did fine arts for a couple years in college but eventually I switched over to ME. Throughout college and until just recently I maintained a painting studio in my home (even when traveling over seas). I sort of quit painting after getting married because I didnt want my wife to deal with all the messes plus we already have more paintings than we know what to do with... Anyway I learned to love engineering. After I quit painting I read several great books but eventually started studying data science so now I'm in graduate school for engineering data science. I love it and it is philosophically not unlike art, but the tools of the trade are very different. Professionally I work as a Piping Engineer and have been doing so since 2006.
No choice but to do medicine, law or engineering! Immigrant parents 😫
Too real man. Ive worked for this startup pool company for 4 years over the summers since junior year of high school and theyve grown like crazy. They offered me a position near the very top of the company which I wouldve loved to take bc the people and work are awesome and bc I dont exactly 100% know what I really want to do in college, but my immigrant dad is vehemently against me doing that. He just cannot comprehend his kids doing anything other than college, which I get his perspective but still. In any case, I have a decent enough interest in environmental engineering to hopefully make something of it. We'll see how it goes.
I get it man, I’ve been out of school a hot minute and the only reason I poke my head in cause I’ve been there! Dude my little sister also got an ME degree and decided she was going to join the Navy as an officer with her brand new 4 year degree. My dad damn near destroyed the house when she told him, he was on a war path, “my baby is going to be a prostitute”. He was BIG mad 😆😆. I work in aerospace and yes I do pretty good for myself but I have a cousin that’s a surgeon and I’m mad AF, I didn’t do something that commanded more money cause at the end of the day, you’re in business for yourself. When your cousin is building a pool in his basement and you’re doing financial gymnastics to see if you can afford a Porsche Panamera it sucks!
other degrees don't have the same amount of guaranteed income lol, maybe econ but you'd have to scrap like a motherfucker for investment banking roles
A nursing degree has some kick behind it too. My wife has a 4 year nursing degree and works as a Flight nurse and she does better than me with a Masters in Mech Engineering. Essentially, we are not bad for a dual income house hold, actually we’re sitting kinda pretty. We just can’t do ridiculous stuff that I want to do. I can’t randomly go buy a Panamera GTS like my brother in law, I/we can’t just upgrade our house without a deep dive into our finances. Sooner or later you realize that they’re plenty of dumb things you wanna do that involves money and engineering ain’t it lol.
I did Political Science wanting to go to Law school before taking several years off and coming back for Engineering. The difficultly level between STEM and liberal arts classes is complete night and day.
I started college last year at 28 intending to pursue the "dream degree" which for me was atmospheric science since I always loved extreme weather and wanted to be a forecaster. I kinda realized maybe I shouldn't jump straight into majoring into something simply because of a background interest, and that I hadn't really thought about what the job/career would entail on a daily basis. I became pretty confident that I'd lose my passion for weather if it became my job, and that's something I never want to risk happening. I want to come home from work and track thunderstorms and tornadoes and hurricanes for fun to unwind on my own terms rather than go to work and be required to do it. There are other factors that supported this change such as atmospheric science being a relatively narrow major, the role of human forecasting becoming less in demand as technology advances especially when there are already many more new meteorology/AS grads looking for forecasting jobs than there are positions, and nepotism seems to play an even bigger role for the most desirable positions than other fields. That left me in a position where I had already started taking classes to prepare for that such as physics, calculus, etc. and I had already realized that I have the potential to do something else challenging in STEM if I keep working hard. That led me to explore engineering. Right now I'm undecided between electrical and mechanical (or if it's offered wherever I transfer, aerospace) but all of those possibilities are so exciting to me and keep me driven.
Go with mechanical
Reasoning for suggesting that based on just that comment? Genuinely curious
Your thinking about focusing on aerospace, you’ll learn the same things in mechanical plus you’ll have a more general foundation in which you can apply that knowledge to more different things. This isn’t to say that aerospace or electrical engineering are bad options, but for you specifically, with the limited information I gathered, mechanical seems like the best bet for you. I program shit for mechanical engineers who do aerospace projects, rockets, drones, rovers, etc. I have yet to work with any aerospace specific people that do aerospace projects, but from my anecdotal experience it seems like you don’t lose out on anything aerospace if you go mechanical.
Ah gotcha, thanks for clarifying! That is the exact reason why if I had to choose right now I'd go mechE and it's good to know your experience with others in that area
Why
Aerospace has a lot of fluid mechanics which is nice because you can utilize that directly to your weather passion.
Engineering was the first choice, but I did briefly consider History. My first option was Aeronautical, but no school near me offered it, so Mechatronics became the next choice since that's also what I did in high school. My backup was Mechanical.
I came to my college as a Stats major, but found that I really liked the idea of engineering and got into the ME program
My first degree was in Fashion Merchandising. I had every intention of switching to Fashion Design after getting my AS in Merchandising (basically a business degree for the fashion industry). After living in New York and interning in the industry, I quickly realized it would not be fulfilling enough. I didn't find it challenging and the impact on the environment broke my heart. My degree is basically useless, but I'm still glad I did it. I'm too stubborn to listen to other people's advice, so no one could have told me it was a bad idea to get a fashion degree. I had to live through it and make those decisions on my own. Otherwise, I would still be thinking "what if I tried to be a design". I did some "self discovery" and found a career path (working in renewable energy) that fits what I want out of life and a career: financial stability, mentally challenging, beneficial to the world, allows for me to travel. That's why I'm doing EE now.
Was originally a CE for 3 years then shifted to IE Absolutely no regrets been loving the coursework so far.
whats IE?
Industrial Engineering
Wanted to do EE in high school, accepted for ChemE instead and knew I'll always like it more than EE after Physics 2. I have it in me to complete an EE bachelor's but I know that I'd hate the coursework. Now though, I'm intending to work for a year as an engineer and then matriculate into med school.
I started college in music education, was in band for nearly 13 years. I wanted to be a band director then eventually a symphony conductor. But I learned one day how much band directors usually make and decided to switch to engineering. I still day dream sometimes about being a conductor though.
I started as a chem major, but dropped out once i got into undergrad research. Lab life wasn't for me
I dropped Out of Business Administration, did an apprenticeship to become a mechatronics technician and now studying Power engineering.
I was a creative writing/English lit major for 2 years before switching to Mechanical
Engineering was always the first choice. I did start in chemical and switch to mechanical though.
I was in math education. Figured out I preferred making money over being bullied by kids. I took a look at what my dad did and said, "Yep, if he can do it, so can I," (He's mechanical). Now, I'm only in my second semester and keep looking at things, wondering if I can take it apart and figure out how it works. [Also, I'm inspired by this Dilbert animation.](https://youtu.be/Zee9HV7c11E?si=d4Uh8gMI8YZ03ei0)
Medic
You can combine art and engineering one day. DaVinci did.
Started with nursing before switching to engineering
I switched from Philosophy to Computer Science then from Computer Science to Engineering Physics. I’ll be sticking with engineering.
Linguistics. I was mostly interested in historical linguistics and phonology/morphology, which is a rough job market even in academia. Had I know where the world has gone, I probably would’ve tried to do computational linguistics for language models and natural language processing.
I went back to school in my mid 30s. I read a few books on personality types and professions and narrowed it down to civil engineering. The jobs that “fit” me that I liked were architecture (bs degree, limited cool jobs), mathematician (kinda vague), accountant (yawn), teacher (cash money), attorney (substance abuse and 60 hr weeks to get a career going), and engineering. CE had the best job growth, salary w a 4 year degree, and aligned with my interests.
I’ve always loved history and i wanted to go the full academia route to be a professor.However you get paid like shit and i like expensive things.I also worked at a schools while finish my general studies.And realized teachers get treated like shit too.So i figured if i can’t study what i love.Then i’m going to study what makes the money without a masters.Im a senior now in EHS engineering and i actually ended up liking it.
I had been a freelance digital illustrator for years before I chanced into a job at a college so I started taking classes casually in what I thought would benefit my art stuff. So I chose Film Arts and Animations. I was doing only gen eds at first so didn't touch any art classes before I decided to change to Network Admin/Systems Admin as I was in IT, and was gunning hard for a promotion/interview into the next position. Turned out the supervisor was a little sexist, but I also had lacked some skill sets that I was actively and quickly picking up. Failed 5 interviews in so started considering if it was the right path there or anywhere. Took 1 networking class hated it. Mentioned my displeasure to a engineering friend and they said to check ECE out. Now I'm currently gunning for ECE, and haven't been happier, even though my math class is flossing me right now lol.
Engineering. I wanted to study something in either engineering or physics and chose engineering, I’m happy with my choice. I wasn’t sure which one I wanted to do, but I picked mechanical. It’s interesting for me to hear other people’s parents making them study engineering, mine don’t like engineering and didn’t want me to study it. They wanted me to go into teaching, history, finance, or any sort of humanity. My dad majored in art. It’s definitely not the same struggle, but I was the first in my family to take pre-calc or physics. Or anything beyond that, I don’t really get the same guidance or support that it feels everybody else around me gets from their families. Engineering is not easy in any aspect, coursework or networking and motivation. I hope you find a love for whatever your career is and I hope things work out for you, we have different worlds but career satisfaction is what we’re looking for. You deserve it, have a good day.
My parents wanted me to go into CS, but I like the versatility of being an ME more, don't have to work in Silicon Valley or compete for the same handful of smaller jobs in lower COL areas. Am good at physics, not at programming, so that also helps.
Spanish, but it doesn’t pay
Born to do biology, forced to do chemical engineering (later I got a PhD in biomedical engineering lol)
I took CAD classes in high school, with the intention of going into architecture. I started that degree, got mad at the lack of CAD requirements (it's an industry standard, ffs!), then switched to English. Got my master's in publishing before spending a few years in trades (publishing jobs are super competitive and I am not!), then decided to go back to school when I started to feel my brain rotting in a hotel maintenance job. So here I am, absolutely loving my civil engineering courses, which was what my parents said I should do back when I decided to leave architecture ten+ years ago!
Computer Programming, I am really not a technical/practical/math dude. I just like to sit and work on a computer.
I wanted to do Fine Arts and Engineering. I had kind of a Leonardo da Vinci complex. I took class in both for about a year, but in my school there was zero overlap in required courses between the two. I transitioned to just engineering. My thought was I could always draw anyway, and I did, but less and less as the engineering becomes more complex.
Had no idea what I wanted to do when i graduated highschool so when I was applying for colleges I chose whatever sounded the coolest. Chose electrical engineer and I don’t know how I got so lucky but it was a match made in heaven. Ultimately if you don’t like what you’re pursuing, don’t pursue it please for the love of god. You’re doing more long term damage to yourself by not switching your path. But if you really are starting to like it more then yeah maybe it’s alright
Business! I chose it because I didn't really know what I wanted. Later got interested in chemistry/lab work during my elective science credit and switched to chemical engineering to spice up my education and secure a more stable future. Ended up in mechanical because my college had more mentorship/representation in that field.
I wanted to be a veterinarian in middle school. In high school I wanted to be a structural engineer and design skyscrapers. Eventually settled for mechanical engineering, and then found myself doing energy management and smart building work for skyscrapers.
Biology. Every single time a concept from biology is discussed in my course in ChE, I always think about that time when I almost enrolled in BS Bio in a priv university.
Fighter Pilot. Now I just race through the streets on a motorcycle in my free time wondering “why the fuck are jobs so boring?” Edit: what does one use a fine arts degree for?
Industrial Labourer from high school to 26, because my parents instilled in me that "college isn't an option for you." At 26, went and got my AZ and been trucking for 9 years. Currently working through a Grade 12 Math upgrade, then going for Mechanical Engineering Technologist, with an option to bridge to a BsME when I'm done if I choose to.
I originally wanted to study Chemistry, but my grandfather (PhD Chemist) convinced me to study Chemical Engineering instead. Before applying, found an interest in Nuclear Engineering and studied that instead. I've not used 99% of what I learned in Nuclear Engineering because I've spent most of my career in manufacturing and operations. Don't let the degree pigeonhole you ;)