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I should have loved electrical engineering

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157 points tdhttt | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 09:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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crinkly ◴[04 Sep 25 10:20 UTC] No.45125606[source]▶
If you want to learn how to solve problems with hammers, engineering is what you want to do. If you want to know how the hammer works, do mathematics or physics. If you want to get paid, do software.

This is why I did an EE degree, didn't get paid much, went into software and used that to pay for a mathematics degree.

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kennyloginz ◴[04 Sep 25 10:31 UTC] No.45125665[source]▶
This is outdated advice. If you want to get paid, get a hammer.
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1. boringg ◴[04 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45127113[source]▶
I don't think engineering gets paid well compared to software. And by engineering I mean any physical forms of engineering that doesn't fall into "software engineering". The advice seems pretty accurate to me.

In that analogy it also works that in that the level of cognitive difficulty is most challenging @ physics theoretical work --> engineering --> software. Inversely proportional to pay check size. Though a physicist can probably figure out software whereas the other way is a tougher slog.