Engineering is your path to becoming a billionaire!

9 per cent of the fattest cats studied an arts subject at university, more than those who specialised in typically tailored topics such as economics and finance.
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Engineers are smart and down to earth and love their jobs for which they are well paid. = save/invest heaps of money. Makes sense and good on them.
Business studies came in 2nd. A very relevant course.

This is interesting and encouraging to read:
9 per cent of the fattest cats studied an arts subject at university, more than those who specialised in typically tailored topics such as economics and finance.
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Even Arts students can be successful.
 
Engineering is essentially a degree in solving real world problems with practical solutions. There's a lot of money to be made in identifying problems or needs and providing solutions to them.

Those skills can be applied to a lot of seemingly unassociated fields.
 
I would suggest that it wasn't the engineering degree that made these people successful - the education/degree was merely a set of tools they gathered along the way and it was much more about their personality, drive, opportunity and courage that made them who they are.

They did not succeed BECAUSE they did engineering. They succeeded AND they were engineers.

Of course, a large part of the "opportunity" aspect comes from the skills they had learned - but I think there are plenty of opportunities for the right people with the right motivation and courage with skills that aren't necessarily so technical.

(as an aside, I think there's a whole lot more to this debate regarding the technical vs non technical aspect - especially as it relates to scarcity of skill and competition - the ability to do or create something that nobody else can/has because of your unique set of skills and opportunities)
 
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WattleIdo said:
Engineers are smart and down to earth and love their jobs for which they are well paid. = save/invest heaps of money. Makes sense and good on them.
Business studies came in 2nd. A very relevant course.

This is interesting and encouraging to read:

Even Arts students can be successful.
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Arts student= future Labor/Greens politician?
 
Peter_Tersteeg said:
Engineering is essentially a degree in solving real world problems with practical solutions. There's a lot of money to be made in identifying problems or needs and providing solutions to them.

Those skills can be applied to a lot of seemingly unassociated fields.
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This.

I did engineering as my undergrad degree and it was very much 'sink or swim'. If assignments (which often had to be programmed or constructed) didn't work and therefore weren't passed, you didn't get to attempt the 100% weighted exam. You were simply failed for that subject.

The problem solving and drive that environment taught me has translated very nicely into the realm of professional consulting.

I'll probably never be a billionaire, but I'm already wealthier beyond any expectation I had as a younger man.
 
Im an civil engineer, also did a business degree, a few of the guys i studied with were keen to get into developing and some invest in stocks while at uni. A lot of problem solving involved in the degree, and large workloads. I think a drive and passion to succeed is probably the main thing, engineering just provides me a decent financial foundation to build from.
 
Sim said:
I would suggest that it wasn't the engineering degree that made these people successful - the education/degree was merely a set of tools they gathered along the way and it was much more about their personality, drive, opportunity and courage that made them who they are.

They did not succeed BECAUSE they did engineering. They succeeded AND they were engineers.
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^^^This. Some of the most success individuals I know are people who have come from engineering backgrounds, but are not longer in the consulting or contracting sides of engineering business - they've left and gone on to do other things.
 
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