>>11784542>the job outlook on nuclear engineering is fucking terrible hereThe job outlook in engineering is terrible for commoners everywhere. The "I'm gonna graduate in engineering and find a good job!!!" meme is only true in very specific economic cycles where you have an unusually high demand for fresh engineers, which is clearly not the case now. In normal times, the engineering positions in any field, not just nuclear, are reserved of a select group of people. This group, of course, is mostly made of engineering students and graduates who already have their links with industry. Some engineering degrees such as Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering give people the impression that they have a broader market available than, for example, Petroleum, Ocean and Nuclear engineers. This is not true, however. Even in ME and EE you would have to pick a specific industry to work in, and you would find out that every particular industry is hard to get in, just like what you saw with Nuclear Engineering. If you're an outsider in EE, you're fucked anyway.
Joining the Navy is the best way out, although I don't understand why you would never do it. Try going for a Master's degree and doing intense networking, then. Just don't waste your life being miserable for not being able to work with the thing you like.
