It's everywhere. You not only require your own individual abilities, but you gotta know how to work smart and be socialable. Else, no matter what you do, you will be stuck.

Whatever you are going to study, be it acct or eng, socialing, hardwork and study smart is all you need to score well. This applies to work as well.

After reading this thread, I feel that engineers are being 'judged'. Don't forget that some acct grads don't earn as much as an engineer even after many years of work. People are just looking at the successful people while forgetting the remaining ones.