vlatkozelka wroteWhat is the purpose of this thread? The other one is asking exactly the same.
I understand your fear, it's normal at this point of your "career".
I suppose you kinda answer yourself anyway. Why would you move on with a career that you are so unsure about? Google telecom engineers and see what they do. The majority are researchers here and there, because as I told you, the field is too low level to be directed at consumers markets (e.g. companies you would work for). How many telecom companies do you know? I bet you can count them by hand... I can count you like 5 off the top of my head: huwaei, siemens, nokia, intel, qualcom. I'd need 3 more hands to count you the number of software companies I've worked for or collaborated with...
At this point I'll stop giving you hints and answer you like Kareem: if you are looking for a field where you would find a job and make a living, then change your major! You don't have to stray far from CCE:
- Software engineer (or computer science, feel free to ask me what are the differences)
- Multi-media engineer
- Systems Engineer (or what we'd call the IT guy)
If you're looking for a career as a researcher/PhD, then go ahead, do CCE. But then excpect to have to continue on studying for masters and PhD. It is what all my CCE friends ended up doing (willingly though, they knew it from the beginning...nerds)
Just look at the market, do you see any drop in the demand for software anytime soon? Do you see the rise in the demand for innovating antennas and telecom medias anytime soon? (well maybe by NASA...)
PS: These are my advice. I speak from my own experience, and from observation. Please don't come at me with a list of telecom companies you've just googled and such (you know who you are!)
Hello there,well i am sorry for creating another thread for this and i am happy you understand my fear for my future career and i guess every lebanese feels the same for some time in their life when thinking about their future. I would like to ask you too about the difference between software engineering and software development cause they SE just seems like another name for CE for me. I just want to say that its not like i am not happy with what i am studying right now but i still dont want to graduate and have no job to do. Thanks