“You see, many Freepers worship at the feet of the Great God, Engineering.”
I have a liberal arts degree, BA-Chemistry, and I have a science degree, BS-Chemical Engineering. Both have served me well.
Recently I had cataract surgery...my MD Ophthalmoligist got a BS-Electrical Engineering before going the MD route. The Optometrist (Doctor of Optometry) in the clinic got a BS-Mechanical Engineering, didn’t care that much for it, and went on for O.D. Her husband also got a BS-Mech Engr, then went on to get his M.D. and did a residency in Neurology.
Point is an Engineering degree can be the ticket to an interesting and rewarding career in industry, with or without practicing Engineering. It can also be just an ‘undergraduate degree’ that eventually leads to other things. In the three examples cited above, they happened to be the ‘foundation’ for rewarding careers in Medicine.
Now I am in ‘retirement’, after 40 years in manufacturing industry. Today I am busy helping people with natural solutions to health concerns...not to supplement retirement income, but to help people. Been doing this now for nearly 10 years, and consider myself a researcher and a consultant, teaching treatment remedies.
And btw, I do not ‘worship at the Great God, Engineering’. Your comment regarding that has the ring of some disappointment, or sour grapes or a bitterness toward ‘Engineering’ or ‘Engineers’.
Many decades ago I earned two bachelors degrees, one in economics and one in political science (if I had picked my parents more carefully I would have gone on to law school). Nevertheless, I had a nice career and am very comfortably “fixed” in my retirement. No regrets there.
What irks me is the continual bleating of those who have engineering degrees to the effect that that is the only degree worth having. These pompous buttheads just seem to want to gloat.
I have a grand nephew who has a bachelors and a masters in engineering and will get his Phd in said discipline in three months. Him I applaud. I never hear any of that crap from him. The Freepers engineers? Well, in a word: no!