Currently a sophomore starting my aerospace engineering classes.

>>8308581
>I don't want to work as a military contractor

why? they have all the interesting shit

>>8308606
>why?
i'm a pacifist and don't want to make my living creating the means by which war is waged

>>8308609
gay

>>8308613
question remains

should i change my major to mechanical engineering or not

Work for Southwest airlines or some shit. They don't make weapons but are just as evil.

>>8308617
you should change your major to women's studies you homo fruit

>>8308617
that or civ eng

>>8308617
pls be chem eng, they and chemists are the most compatible pair of applied and pure scienc

>>8308640
but i don't like chemistry and wasn't very good at it

>>8308581

most civilian aircraft jobs are outsourced to mexico now so you're fucked if you're American

ask yourself this: can your job actually be outsourced (defense jobs cannot be), if so then reconsider

>>8308652
i was thinking i might like to work at nasa

on the other hand will it still be around 20 years from now

>>8308609
nigga you gay

>>8308581
Aerospace engineer here, I know how you feel. I've been offered defense jobs before, but I turn them down and only work in commercial aerospace. This may be doable, but it will be difficult. Right now, pretty much no new commercial aircraft are being designed. Your best bet would be to find a job on an assembly line where you work on concessions, that is, reanalyze parts that have been screwed up by manufacturing to see if they're still usable. Boeing and Airbus both have massive backlogs, so there'll be a lot of manufacturing work for the next decade. Hopefully, at some point, there'll be a demand for new designs.

Best of luck

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>>8308676
>NASA isn't developing ways to fuck people up

>>8308609
If you do not develop weapons your enemy will. Designing weapons is the best way of being pacifist

>>8308609
Keked, idealists are hilarious.

Just go mechanical.

>>8308757
This.

>>8308609
Gaaaaaay

>>8308647
chemistry is literally the most interesting shit though, chem engs dont do much of the headache stuff in chem, but they do for other subjects