What is a good major to study in college? I'm not the medical type.?

Question

I have an Associates in Electronics. I'm looking for a job with a good future, a job that won't be outsourced in the future. Taking all suggestions.

Answer 1

You don't have to be manufacturing electronics to utilize your degree in electronics. There are tons of manufacturers still that must use electronics to test what they make, and mainain those means of testing. This is what I do.

I also have an AAS in EET and it just so happens that where I work, we manufacture PCB's, but there's several departments that don't, and I'm equally involved in both areas because ALL of the testing of what we make involves electronics(PC's, sensors, fixtures, etc.) So it's not all going to India and China, but alot of it is.
I'm not that medical type either, but have you sat back and thought about all of the electronics that are involved in the medical field? IT'S ALL ELECTRONICS, and I know of a company which contracts out the service and repair of just about every IV pump and monitoring device out there. Universal Hospital Services. I worked there for 3 years before I found where I'm working now. UHS is as stable as the medical field, but a good place to be a bench technician.

Answer 2

I think you might be well off to go one of two ways. 1. With Electrical Engineering. This will set you up for a job somewhere like Boeing. The second idea is to go with a Business Management degree and consider starting an a business as an electrician. With your business degree you'll learn marketing strategies to help you know how to get the word out about your Electrician business and as long as there is electricity we'll need electricians. With your electronics background, it sounds to me like a good fit.

Answer 3

Materials Engineering is a good one to get into with a minor in business. A wide variety of companies need this specialty and I find it extremely interesting especially with the more exotic stuff like nanostructures and materials with interesting properties.

You can get into electrical engineering, it is a good well paying job. Just look around and see what runs on electricity and most of the time they need electrical engineers to design the electrical parts of whatever.

Those are a couple of the better paying fields in engineering.

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Answer 4

You might want to enroll as 'undeclared' and take courses in a few different fields that you are considering. You can declare a major later. A "good" major just means the one that will work best for you, and obviously we can't tell you for sure what that is.

Answer 5

Maybe you should be a nuclear biological or chemical technician. Try looking for info about jobs at www.bls.gov