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Originally Posted by Unregistered
2 observations -
- studying engineering is diff from working as an engineer - think we are all talking about working as an engineer here, and opportunities arising from the same
- in deciding on a career, its never meaningful to speak of top salaries ... its always more meaningful to speak in terms of mean or median salaries. Would u encourage my son to choose professional soccer as a career because the top guy gets $10 million per year? And on this point its clear that the median salary in finance is higher than that in engineering
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Just as it's never meaningful to speak of top salaries, it's also never meaningful to speak of median salaries without looking at the difficulty of getting into a particular career.
An engineering graduate finding an engineering job is almost a certainty whereas a finance graduate finding a finance job (particularly one in front office) is not.
The battlefield is littered with bodies of finance graduates languishing in front desk (not front office) receptionist/ telemarketer-type dead end jobs.
Unlike the myriad engineers here who can like claim "if I had studied finance ...", these unfortunate finance grads can't do the same.
Hence one advantage of studying engineering is that one can always claim "if I had studied finance ..." and add whatever number of zeros to your salary.