You guys are funny. Both Officer and ME4 got nothing to do with his Naval Architecture degree, or Marine and Offshore Technology.

Your job as ME4 is to ask your lower ranked MEs what is the ship's status? And then they report to you, then you report to Officer.

Your job as Officer is to rotate among certain positions starting from Admin Officer, then Navigation Officer, Communications Officer, Operations Officer, Executive Officer, and finally Commanding Officer. In your 4 yr bond, you will probably only reach Communications Officer max.

Since you had already sealed your doom by signing on, my advice is to go forth as an Officer.

MEs got no respect.

From an ex Navy Regular.