• Question: Was being an engineer your only possible career choice?

    Asked by tuckp to Al, Emma, Ivanka, James, Omar on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Ivanka Brown

      Ivanka Brown answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I did civil engineering at university and following this degree I could have also gone into most numerate jobs. From my experience some on my course went into accounting or banking and some went on to a conversion courses to do construction law or project management or teaching.
      However, I have seen some job adverts that that ask for any degree higher than a certain grade, no matter what the subject, so a university degree can get you into many careers.

      For me personally, I have always been good at languages, so another possible career choice for me was translator or international relations.

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      James Vokes answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I would say doing an engineering or science course will help you in any job that uses numbers. I know a guy from my Physics degree at Uni who’s now working for a bank. He sold himself at the interview by saying that Physics allowed him to “think logically and solve problems” and you can say that about any engineering or science course.

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      Emma Bould answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I could have done pretty much anything I wanted to – but I made the choice to study engineering and I chose Mechatronics over half a dozen other choices of course.

      I didn’t have to do an engineering job once I graduated – in fact I didn’t really. I worked for an IT company as a business analyst before I joined the Navy, which used my ability to interpret information and solve problems rather than my knowledge of control systems and robotics!

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      Al Bartlett answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Hello tuckp,

      No, I wanted to be a fighter pilot but unfortunately im too tall so it wasn’t to be I took on the role of an engineer so i get to fix the planes instead of fly them!!

    • Photo: Omar Mustufvi

      Omar Mustufvi answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      No not at all. Like the others have said, engineering gives you skills which can be used in so many other jobs- a lot of my friends from university have ended up as managers, bankers, consultants, journalists, researchers, the list goes on….

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