Computer Engineering

Your all over the place! heh thanks for the advice though. I don't know if programming or designing boards is more fun. At least I'll learn how to overclock well

Which fields offer the most pay ?

and the local governments in your pocket...

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I am not really familiar, but would suspect the most money would not go the the doers, but to the managers or corporate controllers. The money is at the top, which they hire out workers for as little as they can get away with.


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It's not really what job you take, it's more or less yourself. I worked with engineers.. 600 of them. Always thought they made good money.. when after 20 years they're making 18-20 dollars an hour, I was amazed that my $5,000 community college education outdid hundreds of engineers with bachelor degees and a few with masters.

It really depends. If you're self motivated and can work for yourself, or find a job where you're not just the average person, you'll do good.

But you need to really spend your time working hard, social network, and just make yourself known.

The key is, you don't have to be the best, you just have to be known and be reliable. It doesn't hurt to be the best, but even towards the top with a good work ethic, personality, you'll do better than someone who lacks those qualities.

It's not a matter of going into what pays good, but a matter of what you want to do. You should realize this already.

If you go into a job for money and don't care for it, you'll hate your job, never advance and be happy.

Find something you like, then work towards that. You'll be happier and advance further. You have your first year to figure out where you want to go.

You can be like Rich.. do work, rob the local government and drink beer and trowl through forums with odd information that people stare at and wonder where he finds it..

Or you can dig holes.. oh wait..

Find something you like and go with it.. if you actually work at it, money won't be a problem.

Civil Engineers also have the hardest testing if I remember correctly. I want to say when the testing scores came back for the University of Toledo.. which is the major university in my city (UT Rockets somewhat known in College Football).. I want to say 2 people attempted to their 'final' test for Civil Engineering and 1 passed.

Now, you get structural engineering which I'm told is the easier of engineering.. they were getting 500-600 people taking and passing it.

But that's why civil engineering pays well.

I'm recently 24.. I've been working professionally since I was 18.. I have 6 years professional experience, a 2 year associate degree and a certificate I just bothered finishing up in March. I worked and went to school full time.. cut the partying down to a bare minimum. 1 year working at a college, 1 year working at an engineering firm.. I was 20 when I started my last job. That's when I started my partying and stuff.. at 20.. not horrible.

My friend went to OSU.. 5 years in some business management/accounting stuff. He's been working for Owens Illinois for a year now.. brags about how much money he makes... I was the one expected to go no where after high school.. he didn't like the fact that I make 10k more than him per year and I out pace him at 10% more money in raises and bonuses than he does.

Do what you like, it'll show and won't seem like work for you, and the money will come. My friend doesn't like his job because he sits alone and works with numbers all day. I get to travel, all expenses paid, do whatever.. and I work my 8-5.

Once you get 6months to 1 year in, start trying for internships to learn some stuff.

I know we were payign $12 an hour for interns to do engineering for the company, working on large projects like Toyoto's new plant down in San Antonio, or Kellogs, or stuff like that.. One went on to work as an intern for Nasa, another is working for Toyota.. that's how to get the good jobs.. gotta have the school and the internship.. that's what means the most.. that internship.