Well I started out as a Mechanical Engineering Technology student, but definitely didn’t feel challenged mentally by my junior year, so I switched to Mechanical

Well I started out as a Mechanical Engineering Technology student, but definitely didn’t feel challenged mentally by my junior year, so I switched to Mechanical Engineering, which lost me a couple years of credits. Then when I was a junior in Mechanical Engineering, I realized that I was theoretically more intelligent in understanding how and why things work, but I noticed that I only looked smarter on paper and it wasn’t as much applied knowledge. Then I kinda met in the middle with a Manufacturing Engineering Technology degree where I already knew all of the physics side of things, and learned more about Automation and Robotics, and how to make things more efficiently and increasing the ROI on the project from a Business perspective. But I’ll also agree that sometimes it takes quite a bit of hunting for work that’s equitable to your knowledge and skills. In most cases, if you find some work that pays well, there’s a good chance that the work is definitely needed, but it isn’t very challenging and becomes more like doing paperwork. That’s where I’m at now where I make enough money to be above the poverty line, but all I do is regurgitate paperwork without having much input on the design of the CADs that I’m making. I feel like there isn’t an abundant amount of opportunities for work along Mechanical Engineering that entices the engineer with equitable pay for doing something that they’re passionate about and still challenges them.