>>11870694Do a practical degree.
EE and ME are practical if you get a job as such, for example, field commissioning equipment. This cannot be outsourced.
For example, for EE, all machinery has local panels that require setting up, so for EE you should take the branch that focuses on PLC programming and high voltage (if you can). This lets you program local panels for refineries, factories, etc, but also do high voltage like switchgears and transformers, etc. You become a vital component in commissioning, normal production, or troubleshooting and maintenance.
Mechanical engineering is the same. STAY AWAY FROM DESIGN. Be the guy who critiques design, or who implements it in the field. There's always a huge demand for MEs who understand 10MW gear boxes, or who can align a 100m long kiln to within 100mu accuracy. Again, brownskins can't do this.
All design in the West now is being outsourced to India or other countries, with a white guy checking what comes back, marking in red everything that needs to correcting, and sending it back again, ad infinitum.
The trick is to understand design, but do the practical aspect, because shitskins are all book knowledge but are unable to apply it practically. Even their book knowledge is shit. The second they smell that you don't know the field they're talking about, they start filling you with bullshit.
I'm neither of these professions. I studied marine engineering (lol) which is very light on maths, but it blows other professions away in practical understanding of machinery. Now I do commissioning of paper plants (lime kilns), cement plants and mining installations that involve pyro.
Pic related is 250MW main burner. Easiest commissioning of my life but the client thinks I'm a god, because it is the final piece in a 300 million EUR factory before it starts running.
