/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>197134
Peak oil.

>>197168
When?

>>197134
Maybe you should. Get a minor in geology for shale boom.

>>197168
But that won't happen for a while, right?

>>197179

Five years ago

Because every other entering student in the last three years had the exact same idea.

Petroleum is good short term go for shale natural gas with any luck we'll get a republican or next obama clone to sell out do we can start getting gad for cheap as fucking shit. Be like saudi arabia of natural gas. But yeah long rerm reasearch in other ways to harvest massive amounts of energy for cheap on the other side....

>>197134
i only know of one other retard that got petroleum engineering and he drives a pepsi truck

of course, i don't have shit but i'm an inspector for subsea equipment

if there's one thing I know it's that petroleum engineering is the game design of the engineering world.

take that as you will

>>197134
Because it's saturated with people like you and unlike everything else, there's no new product to mine

Thinly veiled college advice thread?

I really like computer science/electronics and programming but I also like finance.

What's the best way to combine the two?

What kind of job has a mix of programming or electronics and finance?

Because what job will you get in 50 years when all oil wells are closed and people are inhaling hydrogen gas bombs.

>>200099

You can be a software developer in the banking industry. Not every job is making video games or Facebook. Your first job will likely be debugging software you've never heard of making $50K working 10 hours a day in a basement.

>>197195
>>198961
Chem E here. My graduating class is very large compared to the year before mine (my profs said that ours was largest class they've ever had to teach). It doesn't stop there, the classes under mine are even bigger.

I study petroleum engineering. I have one year left until I graduate.

It's the engineering discipline with the most retarded people and most of them wash out after their first class. Lots of scumbag behavior, especially if you work in groups.

Most of my classmates really don't care about their work or what they study, they just see an eventual paycheck (>being this delusional that a company would seriously pay a new graduate 100k a year, top kek). It's those same people that piss and moan that they haven't gotten a single interview.

Honestly, it's a depressing major. Most students in my program are much older than me and are returning to school just hoping that this is their ticket to a good job. Many have kids and are married. If I could go back, I would probably not study petroleum engineering, I'd pick a different engineering discipline.

And oh god, the superiority complex of most of my classmates is absurd. They brag about their eventual starting salaries despite not having a job or internship, a single interview for one, and are in debt from school. And they still have the nerve to shit on other engineering disciplines.

Truly, petroleum engineering is pig disgusting.

I want to go into petroleum engineering at university of alaska fairbanks. There probably aren't as much of a flood of students up there, and If I can drill in the arctic, it will be a skill that sets me apart from others.