Look, if you are already in engineering, I think the take away from this thread shouldn't be "engineering doesn't pay, now how do I get to finance? "

It's remarkably difficult to get into a well paying front office role, even if u have first class honours at nus or ntu. As a mid career engineer , the odds are fairly stacked against you.

The more appropriate and higher success probability question is "which area of engineering should I focus on to carve out a lucrative career ?" To do that, refer to my note above on "engineering is not a dead end"...