Should I finish my Electrical Engineering degree?

[FastAdam23]

Hello everyone, my name is Adam, 19 yo from Croatia, and I am currently studying Electrical engineering for a bachelor's degree.
I started reading The millionare fastlane not too long ago and I am loving it so far but I started to question whether I am pursuing the right thing or not. Here in Croatia college is free so I think it's a good investment overall but I am not sure if I can land a good job with a bachelor's from my country because the education here is outdated. Is it worth going for a Masters? Should I finish bachelor's and just start working to get experience and maybe open a business in this field?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

 

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[Andy Black]

Hello everyone, my name is Adam, 19 yo from Croatia, and I am currently studying Electrical engineering for a bachelor's degree.
I started reading The millionare fastlane not too long ago and I am loving it so far but I started to question whether I am pursuing the right thing or not. Here in Croatia college is free so I think it's a good investment overall but I am not sure if I can land a good job with a bachelor's from my country because the education here is outdated. Is it worth going for a Masters? Should I finish bachelor's and just start working to get experience and maybe open a business in this field?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

@ZCP is an engineer and runs an engineering firm. Curious what he thinks.

 

[ZCP]

@FastAdam23 what is your end goal/outcome for the next 10 years? what do you want to do? where do you want to live? what do you want to be doing? who do you want to be with?

 

[FastAdam23]

@FastAdam23 what is your end goal/outcome for the next 10 years? what do you want to do? where do you want to live? what do you want to be doing? who do you want to be with?

End goal is for sure to be an engineer because I always liked it. I want to start a business but have a backup job and education. All I know is that I want to have time and financial freedom as well as location freedom. Just not sure if I can achieve it with a bachelor's degree. My family has been telling me that I need to get a master's my whole life to become something so now I'm just wondering what is the right path. Just don't want to waste my young years worthlessly.

 

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[ZCP]

find the 5 or 6 jobs / things you would like to do. what qualifications are required to do that?

find 5 or 6 people on linkedin doing exactly what you want to do. reach out to them and ask how they got there, what they needed, advice they would have.

question: are your family exactly who you want to be and doing exactly what you want to do? then they can give you ideas, i just would not blindly listen to advice from people that are not doing what you want to do. right?

 

[VZM]

Im in the same kind of boat here. Finishing my final year of aerospace eng. I also try to do a small business flipping boats during the summer (it doesn't always work out, but the knowledge gained was awesome). I'd say stick it out and finish your degree. There is a lot of stuff you can do with an electrical eng. degree, you can go work, or you can surely start a business. If its free, then I'd go for it. Additionally, you may have a bunch of resources at your institution that can help you start a business while you are in school, sometimes even give you money. Not to mention the possibility of finding cofounders (this one is kinda tricky, most people in my class are the grind away 24hrs a day at work kind of people) but def worth a try.

As for the masters, its up to you. For engineers, experience is very relevant, not only being a thermometer with a ton of degrees. I personally am probably not going the masters route.

Just my 2c

 

[FastAdam23]

Im in the same kind of boat here. Finishing my final year of aerospace eng. I also try to do a small business flipping boats during the summer (it doesn't always work out, but the knowledge gained was awesome). I'd say stick it out and finish your degree. There is a lot of stuff you can do with an electrical eng. degree, you can go work, or you can surely start a business. If its free, then I'd go for it. Additionally, you may have a bunch of resources at your institution that can help you start a business while you are in school, sometimes even give you money. Not to mention the possibility of finding cofounders (this one is kinda tricky, most people in my class are the grind away 24hrs a day at work kind of people) but def worth a try.

As for the masters, its up to you. For engineers, experience is very relevant, not only being a thermometer with a ton of degrees. I personally am probably not going the masters route.

Just my 2c

How come you aren't going for a master's? In our field, the pay is better with a higher degree and also we get certain benefits like being an authorized engineer. Im sure there are plenty of businesses in our field as engineering minds are always respected and helpful to society but are probably much more expensive to start.

 

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[VZM]

How come you aren't going for a master's? In our field, the pay is better with a higher degree and also we get certain benefits like being an authorized engineer. Im sure there are plenty of businesses in our field as engineering minds are always respected and helpful to society but are probably much more expensive to start.

At least where I am, you become an authorized engineer after working in engineering for at least 4 years, masters or not. Also I have to pay a bunch for tuition here, and honestly that is kind of anti-fastlane in my opinion. There are the sidewalkers that spend immediately everything they earn, and then in my mind there is the category that just keeps paying tuition for 10 years to get a phd and it takes them 10 more years to pay off the debt. My reasoning is that I can get a pretty good business going in 10 years and have a small pile of cash by the time one graduates with a pile of debt.
Now, I am not knocking on anyone doing a Phd, much less if the tuition is free (as in your case). If you need a masters to become an accredited engineer, (not sure how it works in your country) then going for it might be a good option. I am just explaining my reasoning as to why I am not getting a masters.
If you do go for masters, try to start thinking of and testing different business ideas anyways if you can.

 

[loop101]

Hello everyone, my name is Adam, 19 yo from Croatia, and I am currently studying Electrical engineering for a bachelor's degree.
I started reading The millionare fastlane not too long ago and I am loving it so far but I started to question whether I am pursuing the right thing or not. Here in Croatia college is free so I think it's a good investment overall but I am not sure if I can land a good job with a bachelor's from my country because the education here is outdated. Is it worth going for a Masters? Should I finish bachelor's and just start working to get experience and maybe open a business in this field?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

I suggest you finish your degree. You have your whole life ahead of you, and you will have many more employment options if you have a degree.