(Engineering) Career advise from the Gurus

[Pista1]

Yes you are right: electrical engineering knowledge provides a base for the medical equipment field. I myself started off my career as such along with ninety percent of my colleagues.
There is a catch however. Newly graduated engineers sometimes cannot find jobs because of lack of experience.
I recommend that while you are studying try to find some company where they will let you do professionally related volunteer work to gain real life experience and get to know people and make contacts.
This and the previous posting are meant to be just general advice since I am not familiar with the situation in the UK.

[Tina10]

Thanks for the replies. But I am a little disappointed as not many people seem interested in sharing their knowledge and opinion.

[khoog]

You may be looking in the wrong place. Many people on this site are hobbyists. Others are self-taught and come to the field through their own curiosity, not through academia. Only a very few would be able to give you advice regarding the standard, official career path in engineering.

I've hired (and fired) engineers, and what I know about the field I gleaned from them. If you really want my opinion, I would say study Art, Music, and Poetry and divest yourself of limitations. Start dreaming, and then get into engineering. I'm sure that's not the sort of advice you are looking for, and it probably won't help you even a little bit, but you asked for it.

[Tina10]

Thanks Khoog. I will look into Art, Music and poetry courses or may be psychology

[Jumper]

Just ask yourself:
Do you prefer to pull away your hair when SW doesnt work or do you rather gaze into the ambient glow of a failed HW.

If you do not have a real interest for what you will be working with then you should in my oppinion do something else. Life is too short to get stuck going to work doing something that you do not love or/and work in a place where your contributions are not appreciated.

OR get any kind of well paied booooring job and find a nice expensive hobby!

Sure, I hate my job sometimes too but in general I think most days are great, and the few days that are not is usually just frustration from loosing too much hair.

[rsocor01]

Well, if I could go back in time instead of going for my EE degree I would have probably considered to be a medical doctor or even a surgeon. Many times the work of an engineer is not well appreciated, long hours of work, you don't get paid as well as in other careers, and you can get fired by Khoog (just kidding).

This is probably not what you wanted to hear, but it is my most sincere advice.

Robert

[Tina10]

Thanks Robert, Jumper for your replies. I am very much into electronics, even before I start my course, I have self-taught myself a good deal of basic electronics, PICs, programming etc. It started as a hobby few years back and has become a passion since then. I can't think of my future in anything else than to be in this field, so I have decided to formally get qualified in it. But since this field has has so many branches, I do not want to make a mistake. I don't know the ins and outs of specific branches so I have shortlisted two and hope to get more insight into them here. I don't like computers or programming computer softwares, but I do love programming micros, making hardware and building things. I also like building circuits and get very interested in different systems communicating with each other so I was not sure upto now which one to choose but now I am more inclined to go for EEE than Telecom Eng as it seem to have better prospects