Why waste your time on engineering? Most of your peers who have the drive and ambition are all going into the Finance field already, $4k might seem a lot at first, but after 5 years you will likely be 50% behind your peers.

You can see a lot of cases here as well where engineers wasted many years in this dead end field going nowhere only to start from scratch again in the banking sector in their early 30s.

If you are still very hung up on engineering, at least join a top tier MNC, do not settle for anything less. You go into stat board or SME now your career is basically ended.