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I'm in my first few semester of College, and I'm kind of wavering away from a Mechanical Engineering Degree. I'm currently between some other options instead, as the more computer and technology-centric classes are swaying my interests. The options I'm torn between are (and these are all assuming I complete a bachelors in that respective major,) Computer Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, and Cybersecurity.
Does anyone here work in these fields that can shed some light on what the work is like and what I might be in for with each of these? I've done reading on google and such but I can't help but feel a lot of what I'm reading isn't quite "real", so to speak. Are any particularly good choices, are any not specialized enough to be meaningful in the industry, and are there any nuances particular to each that I should be aware of?
I tried /g/ but they're very quiet
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>>18719328
>first few semester of College
>Mechanical Engineering Degree
when you actually take a mechanical engineering class in 1.5 years come back and let us know if you liked it or not.
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>Mech Eng
No personal experience but from what I understand these are the guys who go insane chasing after .01% manufacturing efficiency boosts in stupid mass produced parts nobody cares about.
>Computer Engineering
My uncle did that up at Intel's Hillsboro location before they canned him to bring in fresh meat. After nearly 10 years working there. You ARE disposable and it's easier to replace you than retrain you as the wheels of progress crush you. Now he does datacenter something or whatever. He's trying to get into firmware design somewhere but no luck because all his experience is with microprocessor logic gates. Hard to apply that to anything else.
>Computer Systems Engineering
Bachelors? Fat chance of finding a job.
>Cybersecurity
This was my major for a while before I decided not to wager my career on P ?= NP. It's just highly focused software engineering, but still pretty damn versatile class wise. It might be hard to persaude employers of that though, especially if you get an interview with the HR bitch instead of the head designer. The thing is a software engineer will have no problem convincing anyone they're capable of sec with the right certs.
Whatever you do, don't do computer science unless you actually want to do research and development on a theoretical level, and that's doctorate tier. A bachelors in CS is the new associates in liberal arts.
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>>18720174
Try a non mechanical engineering. But engineering is so hard, not everyone is a heavy hitter like that OP. Join the darkside of business school, if you take initiative you can learn high levles of math and apply that to your education.
But again, Mech engineering is shit. They don't do mech engineering anymore. The chinese do that.
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>>18719328
That is exactly what the first few semesters in college are for, to give you the chance to test the waters in your major and, if you're not thrilled, shop around elsewhere.
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