View Poll Results: Are you an engineer, or is your job in some other discipline?
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Are you an engineer, or are you something else?
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I'm a Junior in ME at USF. I'm not so sure about staying Mechanical though.. looks like a pretty stale job market, especially in Florida, compared to other fields. I've been interning with a civil engineering firm doing roadway design for two years, but this week is my last week! I am finally moving onto a ME intern job doing something with jet fuel pipelines. I guess I will see how I like it next week. 
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Originally Posted by JonBoy,May 27 2008, 02:14 PM
You're just trying to fit in with the cool crowd by random association. 
In reality though, accounting is much more of a science-type course of study than a lot of the other, typically fluff, business degrees. Accountants were the only people to REALLY, consistantly put in the hours in undergrad b-school.
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Originally Posted by Chris Stack,May 27 2008, 02:01 PM
In reality though, accounting is much more of a science-type course of study than a lot of the other, typically fluff, business degrees. Accountants were the only people to REALLY, consistantly put in the hours in undergrad b-school.
In both fields--certainly in mine--I'd bet what makes a good worker is making good assumptions before you start--simplifying the real system into the best idealized (structural or tax) model. Then it becomes simple optimization, unless you were wrong or forgot something.