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Originally Posted by datawiz
Quarter of a Million dollars in out of state tuition later, 3.75 GPA at Georgia Tech, near the top of her class in her major, and she didn't apply to a single engineering firm. She's gonna write software for a living and has an extremely lucrative deal lined up. This deal has been in motion for over 6 years.
It's what makes her happy, and she's brilliantly talented at it. It just so happens that she now will be doing what I do, and this is the same kid who said "Dad, I don't want to do what you do". 
Software has a much higher upside than engineering. Unless she got into management, she saw in her 3 years of engineering specific internships that the engineers can get trapped in a box. This kid wants no glass ceiling.  |
very true (the box thing).
when i got out in 85, i had spent the last 2 semesters writing code for several classes - some long hours to make the program run correctly without bugs, and I decided I didn't want to sit at a computer all day writing code.
different choices, different outcomes (so here I am at my computer typing away...
).
and as things turned out, my first job working on nuclear power plants only lasted 8 years, and then i had to somewhat reinvent myself and change to another career path (construction and real estate).
my 2 cents, which i doubt she needs: keep your options open, you never know who may call or need a hand with an interesting or lucrative opportunity.
(BSME 1985, Univ. of Southern Cal).