It depends. I go to University of Florida, and tuition is cheap. I also get to use my GI Bill. Lastly, I’m going for Electrical Engineering...so I’d say yes for me.
P.S. Going to Bourbon Street is a poor sampling.
I took 2 years at Washington then transferred to Stanford. The degree/school is just a phrase on the resume. It’s the experience that counts but it is gray. My cousin who dropped out of university to enroll (mistakenly thought it was a computer class) in electrical school and he makes more than I do. Years later, he controls the contracts for the top 4 star hotels in the city.
Change your major.
I’ve been an IC designer at Texas Instruments for 18 years.
More than 50% of my group are Chinese nationals. Our major customers are Huawei, ZTE, and other chinese telecom companies. It’s rule, Chinese hire Chinese. You also need to speak Chinese to develop products with Chinese companies. We are also competing with Chinese design houses now which run 3 8 hour shifts of engineering. We’re working days, nights, and weekends to compete. No time for family.
Even our American competition uses Chinese manufacturing. It’s getting extremely cut-throat in all product lines. Another 25% of the group is from India.
Other notes:
If you don’t have a PhD, forget it. A Bachelor’s won’t get you in the door. A Master’s, maybe. If you don’t get an in internship, forget it. You’re at a disadvantage. And remember, internships are going to Chinese and Indians because the design jobs are moving to China and India and speaking the languages gives them an advantage.
It’s a fact. Sorry, bud.
Change to Finance.
From a fellow gator.
I went to Michigan for Mechanical Engineering. Engineering isn’t Art History. Jobs are plentiful and you should be in six figures within ten years.
I went to Michigan for Mechanical Engineering. Engineering isn’t Art History. Jobs are plentiful and you should be in six figures within ten years.
I went to Michigan for Mechanical Engineering. Engineering isn’t Art History. Jobs are plentiful and you should be in six figures within ten years.
My son is a senior in the EE program at Western Carolina University....currently Cum Laude.... not bad for a Football player....
I’m a EE....
I told him when he went to college choose a degree that is also a career.....
Unemployment for EE’s is about 2.8% out of college...
Good luck on your degree, you will never be unemployed unless you choose to be....
“It depends. I go to University of Florida, and tuition is cheap. I also get to use my GI Bill. Lastly, I’m going for Electrical Engineering...so I’d say yes for me.”
Funny, my oldest kid did something similar. No GI Bill (thank you for your service), but 2 years in Community College, then finished up with an engineering degree at a local state college. No debt, employers knocking, affordable tuition.
Bottom line - parents may not realize this (and most parents that I know don’t), but if they’re paying ANYTHING for junior’s college (or, God-forbid, co-signing loans), they hold veto power and absolute control over what junior does there - even though their kids are adults by then. Of course parents can go AWOL and just give the kids 10s of thousands of dollars and let them do what they want - but parents DO NOT have to. College, to me, is simply a glorified vocational school. The days of learning life’s deeper secrets were gone the minute liberals took them over.