I studied elec eng for 4 years in the UK up to masters level. I went from being top of the class with a good knowledge of maths/physics to struggling. A few peo

I studied elec eng for 4 years in the UK up to masters level. I went from being top of the class with a good knowledge of maths/physics to struggling. A few people moved from elec eng to cs and went from failing to getting a 1st. On graduation I had options to work in defense building radar and all sorts of stuff, but I didn't have the confidence to take up any of those options. I took a programming job which was basically adding numbers up, saving stuff to a database which I actually had some chance of succeeding in. I'd imagine within a couple of years that job would be paying double what I could make doing engineering. I see quite a few places doing embedded work in the uk that involves some electronics. When I did need to do something that involved elec eng recently we did a procurement which ended up in an Indian company providing some custom built Arduino devices to do signal testing and report back to us. They were pretty good, but there was no sensible option where we could get the same thing done in Europe on budget.