Engineering or medicine?

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Engineering or medicine? 2016-01-12 04:21:58 Post No. 1038046
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Engineering or medicine? Anonymous 2016-01-12 04:21:58 Post No. 1038046 [Report]

I'm in my second year of comp. sci. but I have a crippling inferiority complex toward doctors. Doctors and medical students just seem like better people. Good background, generally knowledgeable, sociable, cultivated. I want a comfy upper-middle class life, not just in terms of pay. Is this possible as an engineer? What should I do to avoid ending up in an office with depressing drones?

I went with comp. sci. to learn skills with good entrepreneurial applications, with careers opportunities to fall back on. I'm looking at a master in software engineering because programming and management skills seems useful. I'm tempted to get a business degree instead, or try to get one one the side, but I don't know.

In the broader sense, what kind of lifestyle do engineers lead? Family, hobbies, travel etc. or do they just slave away at the office?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 04:40:49 Post No.1038072
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 04:40:49 Post No.1038072 [Report]

Depends on the person anon, there's hundreds of thousands of engineers in the job market, no real median personality. You'll be fine with what you're doing, CS is probably better for entrepreneurs than CE per se anyway

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 04:43:29 Post No.1038073
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 04:43:29 Post No.1038073 [Report]

>>1038046
It depends if you're good or not really and therefore what kind of job you can get. There's certain places that give you more freedom(r&d for example), which is great but they tend to be on the high talent end. you could get stuck at caterpillar designing tractor transmissions