• Question: why would you recommend to become an engineer?

    Asked by sam to Sylwia, Steve, Phil, Matt, Hollie, Helen on 12 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by lydssx_, Katie and Rhiannon.
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      Hollie Heard answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      It’s a really interesting and challenging career in which you are continually learning. It gives you the opportunity to create incredible things and help improve our understanding of, and how the world works. It’s a career full of opportunities and potential that can lead you to some of the most incredible places across the world and beyond, all the while meeting and working with some extraordinary people.

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      Sylwia Nikel answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      What Hollie said is actually something I fully agree with.
      Every job gives you different opportunities to learn, experience and meet new people. AS long as you love what you do in your work, it’s good enough.
      However, I believe that engineering and science have greater potential to allow you to be part of newly created technologies and therefore have an impact on changes that are being made. You also have better chances to understand the world around you in greater detail or at least from a perspective that probably most of the people are not going to be able to know it. It’s like being an engineer/scientist you shape the world to some extent and you make it better.

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      Steve Williams answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      Well I wouldn’t recommend engineering to everyone as not everyone would like to be an engineer. What I would say to young people is that its a good idea to consider engineering as a possible job choice. Of course to decide whether engineering is something you would like to do you need to be well informed and that is what these Q&As and chats are all about. I guess most peoples idea of an an engineer is someone who works on really big thinks like bridges, planes, power stations etc. But this is a false impression as engineers also work with the really tiny and across a huge range of areas. For example in recent years we have seen the rise of genetic engineers. Engineers also develop the computer chips and work at increasing smaller and smaller scales with the new nano technologies. In your lifetime there is likely be new areas of engineering not yet even considered. If you become an engineer you will probably spend the rest of your life learning and improving your skills and knowledge where each day seems to bring a new challenge. If you are naturally curious about the way things work then its hard to imagine a career better than Engineering.

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