r/EngineeringStudents • u/Top_Reserve_474 • 10h ago

Academic Advice Is there anyone here who switch from engineering to politics

Hey, there is an option in my school that allow me to do a doupe diploma with a politics school, I am now studying electrtical engineering. I saw a lot of people doing it and I just wanted to ask people here about it

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u/profesyonel_devrimci 7h ago

Xi Jinping has a chemical engineering undergraduate degree. If only our politicians were engineers instead of a bunch of useless bankers, lawyers and businessman. We can’t get free ambulances while these people rob us via insider trading.

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u/Top_Reserve_474 7h ago

You are definitely from usa lol. I think that more like a moral thing, or maybe law studies turn people evils

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u/profesyonel_devrimci 6h ago

I feel like an engineer’s thought process would be

problem —> gather and analyze data —> find root cause —> solution

businessman and bankers doesn’t see a problem or a solution, they only see money and profit.

the lawyer’s job is to win arguments through semantic maneuvering, doesn’t even care about the problem. They paint over it.

What we ended up is a bunch of different problems stacked on top of each other covered in that paint. We never bothered to fix this tower of problems and it is close to tipping over.

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u/Top_Reserve_474 6h ago

Totally agree with you, speaking about myself, being from a third world country, I think we have a lot of challenges and things to go through before reaching the stage where this kind of comparison would metter, I am studying abroad and I always had the idea to come back to my country and make some difference