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Jen :
Take a fun clas if they offer it. Don’t take the degree!
2025-06-03 15:34:33
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max__mouse 🟪🟢💛 :
Thank you. Get a "big three" degree (civil, mechanical, electrical) and find a niche in the workforce. I'm SO glad I didn't do younger me's plan, "Renewable Energy Engineer", plain ol' Electrical Engineer is a god tier way more powerful golden ticket in retrospect 🎫
2025-06-04 00:03:53
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Madeline Victoria :
i used to tell prospective engineering students the same thing that they don't want a super specialized undergrad. I have an aerospace eng degree and I have a very similar skillset to a mechanical engineering grad but I don't get considered for those jobs because that's not my degree
2025-06-13 00:29:48
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user4754932976849 :
hey! packaging engineering is actually weirdly high paying and needed in pharmaceuticals and food, not to mention consumer package goods. it's definitely a smaller degree, but it's definitely something to explore if it's an area you're interested in.
2025-06-04 13:36:58
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Double Vision :
I always tell people if they want to go into that major....double major in another more standard form of engineering
2025-06-03 18:10:15
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Tina :
Is industrial engineering considered too niche?
2025-06-04 01:41:12
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TheYellowMathBooksScareMe :
There's always the option of doubling with a more common major, if you could swing it. A double major in mechanical & packaging would definitely set you apart too.
2025-06-04 17:48:17
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Zoe :
I got this advice for not studying aerospace and just do mechanical- and thats the one I disagree w/
2025-06-03 12:18:51
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Joe Attanaseo :
This is great advice, as always! I studied as a structural engineer. I never once practiced as a structural. It's probably good that my school had other specialty requirements so I got a taste! Packaging, to me, sounds "mechanical" or "industrial." Ultra-specialty/Niche can be learned on-the-job.
2025-06-07 23:57:33
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Diaries of a grumpy captain :
I was gonna fight you on this. But then I watched the video and; well no. You’re right. 🤣
2025-06-03 14:25:13
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SK :
One of my kids wants to do structural engineering-niche but needed I suppose
2025-06-04 00:36:20
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helloitslseeeee :
Not disagreeing with your central point but packaging majors ain’t new though. I shared some classes with them way back in 2008, and they all graduated and made crazy money out of the gate.
2025-06-04 01:49:58
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Scott :
An important task in my first engineering job was to make pictured of stickers, and then make pictures of where to put the stickers. Degrees give you generic learning and you'll get the rest of the hyper-specific learning at your job.
2025-06-04 01:09:03
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Yt @art_lust :
Also, there’s already industrial design degrees
2025-06-03 17:00:44
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Kate :
Me but the opposite about environmental science. Get a degree in geology, geography, biology, etc. and do some additional specialized coursework. Environmental science will not teach you enough about anything in particular and pays less than other degrees doing the same job.
2025-06-04 02:50:38
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GlenDunzweiler :
Thank you. Also, learn how to be an employee AND an entrepreneur. Keep your head UP and work hard. Don’t get a #DegreeInHomelessness (a book I wrote on entrepreneurial skills for students)
2025-06-03 15:03:53
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pleemgees :
Another quick check: how old is the program? If it’s under ten years, pass. Polymer Engineering at UMass - been around forever, top program in the country. Nanoengineering at UC Riverside - might be OK, but higher risk.
2025-06-04 03:23:22
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Brick :
I believe that schools have had packaging science for 50 years, it's not a flashy new major
2025-06-04 11:50:53
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Josh :
Package engineering sounds like a great course to take, maybe two. But not a whole degree.
2025-06-04 19:21:58
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Nicks HaHas :
As a mechanical engineer looking for a job after getting laid off from Boeing 1.5 yr after graduating. the job market is tough enough don't make it harder.
2025-06-03 20:05:43
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PineXCone :
I live in an area where corrugated & plastic packaging manufacturing & R&D facilities are….abundant. So, while niche, this would be a helpful degree for someone wanting to specifically get into that feild.
2025-06-04 19:23:21
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moi_mag_ghee :
Where I work we have package testing and it was done by anyone with any science degree. Then they wanted people with packaging engineering degrees. They all were other engineering dropouts.
2025-06-11 19:37:50
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LabThug :
Good advice, but it's a balancing act. Many of the jobs available now were "weird majors" when we went to school. It's impossible to know without hindsight which are good weird and bad weird.
2025-06-08 21:32:09
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Nicole :
Unpopular opinion: if you want to go into aviation, you don’t necessarily want an aviation degree. You’re more marketable if you get a broader degree if you lose your medical (and that doesn’t mean you can’t still do something in aviation other than fly)!
2025-06-05 00:50:26
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yugiohdude3 :
Howdy, so i graduated about a year and a half ago with my BS in Materials Science and Engineering — got a job in the oil and gas industry cause that’s the best offer I got. I’m now kind of struggling to pivot back into aerospace, where I want to work, what would you recommend I do? I did aero research in uni so I know I like the materials that go in that direction, just don’t know if I’m good with what I have or if I should do a masters in Mechanical or Aero. Thanks!
2025-06-05 13:19:11
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