In an early counseling session, I told my adviser that I was in the engineering program as a step to a Masters in Architecture. He nodded and said something alo

In an early counseling session, I told my adviser that I was in the engineering program as a step to a Masters in Architecture. He nodded and said something along the lines of, "From time to time we get students here with that plan. By the time they graduate they realize that they can make more money with their B.S. than they would if they spend the time and money to go on to architecture school." After graduation, I often interacted with architecture firms on various projects and quickly lost interest in architecture-the-job.