is electrical engineering a good career?????

Answer 1

It depends on what you like. There are other college degrees that are easier to get that can pay better. Most of my coworkers are electronic technicians that make over a $100k a year due to overtime with only a high school diploma and military experience. The days of this are almost over many of the departments will only hire people with a minimum of a bachelors degree in electrical engineer because of how much money the employees are making.

I work as a communication systems engineer for an electric utility company in alaska for 4 years since I graduated from college. My salary is roughly $80,000 year and the company offers a pension plan. Most of the people working their have been around the company for 15 - 25 years which shows it is a very stable job. Other people that I graduated with are working with small design contract firms making only $50,000 year after 4 years.

My work requires me to fly to mountain top sites for working on microwave communication link designs, flying in small planes to work at remote power plants. Most of the work is spent working on systems designs, specifying equipment, generating design documentation, testing brand new equipment, working with contractors, helping technicians understand how to operate and maintain equipment. I get to work on a wide range of techonologies from microwave radios, fiber optics, paging systems, telephone systems, trunked radios, and multiple address radios. The electric companies are starting to move into using more networking equipment like TCP/IP and Ethernet standards.

Another thing to consider, there is a lot of competition with foreign engineers in certain specialities such as computer engineering or programming. I would suggest getting a job that requires you to maintain a physical presence to complete your work.

Final consideration, do you want to spend 4 or 5 years in college to get your engineering degree. I would suggest going to an ABET accredited school so you can get a Professional Engineering license later if you want to work as a consultant or just for job security. Many of my freinds and cousins that became electrical engineers worked so hard through school that they never had girlfriends in college or started dating after they started working. You can get an education degree and never spend more then 5 hours a week studying and get paid $40,000 a year for about 8 months a work.

I can tell you that spend an average of 45 hours a week at work and 5-10 hours a week reading journals and arcticles about communications.

I hope this helps a little even with some of my personal bias.

Good Luck.

Answer 2

Electrical Engineering is becoming less needed than Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering. If you want to get into that field you would most likely end up in working with electrical power generation and ways of distributing electricity, which is a good field as the growth for electrical power need always grows with the growth of cities and factories and electronic equipment. Don't forget that without the electrical power nothing can work.

Answer 3

The answer is NO!!
I have been an an engineer for +25 years I have lost two homes one at the end of the Cold War and an other one recently due to this profession. I have stayed current I have worked on commercial satellites and no one will hire me. A dumb guy building exfoliating machine said no what an insult!! Neanderthal business guys thinks I am out of date my creations are out in space more sophisticated than anything and I do mean anything on the market place, I but I cannot get a job. What a joke I have even tried low balling pay because I can and nothing.

Answer 4

It is a great career for someone who want to do electrical engineering. There are lots of different opportunities and it pays well.

I think it would be a terrible career for someone who hated to do match or other electrical engineering tasks.

Answer 5

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is electrical engineering a good career?????

Answer 6

Electrical engineering is an excellent choices. In the future, elctronic and electrical engineering will be closer together but there will always be a need for engineering motors, generators, transmission, distribution, power, and protection systems.

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

How to define Good?

Subjective, some people like to cook, others love to work with technical stuff.

Need to find what you like, and Do Very Well at it. Easier Said Than Done.

Answer 9

My brother in law does this for a living and he makes a lot of money doing it plus he has a company truck and his out of town expenses are all paid when he works out of town. The only problem I see is he sometimes has to work some crazy hours

Answer 10

It is, if you specialize in a certain field, in order to stand out of the crowd. Present specialising trends would be Home Automation (I mean beyond X-10 and lights on-and-off!), or Environmental (energy saving) Devices, or so-called "Smart Homes".