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Originally Posted by wwkayaker
I am a teacher/principal. Those of you speaking about the pension teachers enjoy sound misinformed. I am impressed if you do know the facts about the teacher pension, because I have no information about pensions in other fields. And the workload of teachers, that is another bee's nest I won't touch.
That being said, I am interested in engineering. One poster mentioned engineering being the worst decision of his/her life. I am looking into going back to school for engineering. I have done research into the different areas of engineering and I am leaning towards materials engineering. I am interested to hear from engineers on here about what the typical engineer's day looks like. (I don't mean to hijack this thread but, this question may serve the OP as well.)
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Engineering is a pretty wide ranging field allowing you to go from highly technical pure science stuff to being a manager and all the way in between.
I would say a fairly typical office job day would be an hour of meetings then work on your various tasks you have to accomplish. What those tasks are is where the variance comes in.
I think one problem with engineering when you start discussing career paths is that many engineers would like to sit and think about solutions to problems, figure out if they will work, then let someone else actually implement them. The problem is that implementing the solutions is 80% of the effort. So most people end up being people managers regardless of their actual skills or role and pulled away from the from technical part.
The key becomes finding the right job with the right boss and the right work.