Hi everyone, so I am thinking about going back to school for engineering, but I guess I will give you guys some background info.
I graduated almost a year ago (last December) with my bachelors in Biology originally planning on going to medical school, but things changed. I was still looking to get into medicine but a different route and I have finally realized...medicine is not for me...I am not compassionate enough to make a good doctor (or whatever) and I am finally accepting the fact that I only wanted to go into medicine for the money, which is no good and even if I did end up in medicine, I guarantee that I would hate it and that would not be fair to my self, or any patients that I would be working on.
So anyways, I am currently working in a DNA/paternity/forensic lab. The people there are nice, the job isnt bad but it is super monotonous and I dont think I can work in labs doing the same crap all day, everyday, for the rest of my life. I have considered graduate school in biological fields other than medicine but as interesting as they would be, they dont seem to pay enough to justify the extra schooling. I am really considering going back to school for another bachelors in engineering...what I should have done in the first place since I have always been tinkering with things, and building/designing stuff
I am pretty positive that I will have a full four years of schooling. Majoring in biology only required taking lower level physics (engineering majors at my university require the upper entry level physics classes), college algebra and a statistics class so I will need all of the math classes. My science (chemistry/bio) credits will transfer as well as my other gen eds. I kind of want to go into biomedical engineering since a couple of other science classes would count towards the degree but honestly, I kind of want to get out of biology/medicine as a whole and do something with vehicles (cars); would mechanical engineering be the way to go? Computer engineering would also be considerable. What is the job outlook for the various branches? I know that masters degrees are helpful, but are a lot of people with just bachelors able to find jobs pretty easily? I would hate to go back to school and end up jobless
Also, are there any online methods of getting an engineering degree? My current job does not pay much but it will be so hard to go back to being a broke college student working fast food again. I can probably take a couple of hours off each day to go to class but I doubt I can pull off working full time as well as going to school full time so I would have to quit.
I graduated almost a year ago (last December) with my bachelors in Biology originally planning on going to medical school, but things changed. I was still looking to get into medicine but a different route and I have finally realized...medicine is not for me...I am not compassionate enough to make a good doctor (or whatever) and I am finally accepting the fact that I only wanted to go into medicine for the money, which is no good and even if I did end up in medicine, I guarantee that I would hate it and that would not be fair to my self, or any patients that I would be working on.
So anyways, I am currently working in a DNA/paternity/forensic lab. The people there are nice, the job isnt bad but it is super monotonous and I dont think I can work in labs doing the same crap all day, everyday, for the rest of my life. I have considered graduate school in biological fields other than medicine but as interesting as they would be, they dont seem to pay enough to justify the extra schooling. I am really considering going back to school for another bachelors in engineering...what I should have done in the first place since I have always been tinkering with things, and building/designing stuff
I am pretty positive that I will have a full four years of schooling. Majoring in biology only required taking lower level physics (engineering majors at my university require the upper entry level physics classes), college algebra and a statistics class so I will need all of the math classes. My science (chemistry/bio) credits will transfer as well as my other gen eds. I kind of want to go into biomedical engineering since a couple of other science classes would count towards the degree but honestly, I kind of want to get out of biology/medicine as a whole and do something with vehicles (cars); would mechanical engineering be the way to go? Computer engineering would also be considerable. What is the job outlook for the various branches? I know that masters degrees are helpful, but are a lot of people with just bachelors able to find jobs pretty easily? I would hate to go back to school and end up jobless
Also, are there any online methods of getting an engineering degree? My current job does not pay much but it will be so hard to go back to being a broke college student working fast food again. I can probably take a couple of hours off each day to go to class but I doubt I can pull off working full time as well as going to school full time so I would have to quit.