Engineering degree can get you to quite alot of field now, if you look at the recuitment criteria at CS or MNC. definitely not including acct related. this is mainly due to engineering course involves alot of critical thinking and innovations. in SG, engineer path will nv lead to any good cause due to it being not valued and respected for its professional status. in sg (out of CS), technicians/ people without academic qualifications were given engineer post hence pulling down its overall value and causing graduates not getting the right pay.

Engineer is a professional field that is widely valued and respected out of sg. i believe the reason behind this failed engineering career was mainly due to sg wanna increase the no. of engineers in the country but did not take into serious consideration of the quality. Those GLC and CS top management handling technology/ engineering were not engineering grads hence failed to realise the importance of producing quality engineers. many infact thought that engineers just need to have the technical skills when in real, engineers need to have both the theoretical and technical.

I am an engineer in GLC now and leaving this engineer field next month to move to management (still dealing with engineering related). At this current state, i wont pursue a full engineer career unless sg start to restructure and filter away those unqualified people. I really hard time working with most of the non-academic engineers due to the diff competency level and knowledge understanding. To clarify, I dont look down on non- graduate engineers but frankly speaking, the technology world now and in the coming years will be more challenging then they thought. If they did not have good fundamental in the first place, how can they fulfill their job? i do admire those people who willing to upgrade themselves so to fulfill the responsibilties of an engineer.