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I'm 25 and going back to college to be an Engineer (in what specifically I am unsure, primarily looking at general Mechanical Engineering, with a high interest in robotics.)

However, people keep telling me I should go Navy. Nuke Tech especially. I know that isn't for me...but are there other military engineering jobs I could get that would spring board me forward?

/k/ was of no help.

>> No.5705811

>However, people keep telling me I should go Navy. Nuke Tech
>wat

>/k/ was of no help.
>Welp

Just do what interests you, if you are in just for the money you shouldn't be doing engineering in the first place

>> No.5705823

>>5705811
I don't want money. I want to work in fields that interest me even if it means living in a trailer park to afford a place to live.

>> No.5705829

lol? go to a good school and get a 4 year mechE degree. you can pretty much do anything you want after you get through that.

>> No.5705843

>>5705823
So do that.

>> No.5705848

>>5705811
>Just do what interests you
>Just do what interests you
>Just do what interests you

I hate this. What if I have ZERO interests that translate to the working world?

>> No.5705859

I have an uncle that was a Nuke Tech on aircraft carriers. If you don't want to have working knees by the time you get out I'd say go for it, you're already a dog so being a military dog isn't that strange for you I'm sure.

>> No.5705860

>>5705848
Then you forsake your interest and do something to get by, fuck.

No one when they were a kid said "hey, I'm going to be a chemical engineer".

A lot of people do it for the stability.

>> No.5705863

>>5705811
>if you are in just for the money you shouldn't be doing engineering in the first place
I agree that as engineer you don't have the easiest money. But if you are actually intelligent and hard working, engineering is basically guaranteed wealth. All my professors that are electro engineers themselves have dozens of patents, own a few small companies, are really rich and only work at the university for the fun of it.

>> No.5705865

>>5705848
do you even maslowe's hierarchy

>> No.5705869

>>5705865
Not OP.
>maslowe's includes sex as a need

Filthy monkey

>> No.5705874

>>5705860
Yeah I remember this very well... When I was a kid, I always wanted to become a physicist because back then I did not know how little you can achieve as one. Then I discovered and joined the engineering masterrace.

>> No.5705904

>>5705874
Engineering is pretty boring in practice. Engineering research is pretty dumb most of the time. E.g. stuff scientists have already figured out quite a while ago, but engineers still act like it's new, or mindless optimization, etc. PhD student in the field btw.

Good money though.

>> No.5705905

I want to be a quantum physicist xD

>> No.5705909

OP here... genuinly considering just going for w/e they put me in. I have no life. I spend every day doing 4chan. No girl (lost her after a while and no interest in more.) No child. I hate my family. I hate my current college-directed job.

I'll go bug /k/ about military stuff, in general, but yeah. I just want to build robots or rockets or planes or what-ever.

I want to help humanity.

>> No.5705911

>>5705804
Get BS, go Navy/Air Force, after a few years of service get paid to go to grad school.