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Going from Engineering to Special Education and worried!?
I am currently a Biomedical Engineering student. I LOVE MATH, science, some physics, and all analytical things. However, I cannot stand engineering. Why? I don't know. I don't want to work for a big corporation all my life. I don't want to work in a male dominated atmosphere (I had a job at a rapid prototyping center and the males were horrible to work with- i.e. "Oop, go do that with Sophie, she's a girl." "Why are females so ______?" I always wanted to go into a field where I could help people who really need it (the underdogs)- originally I wanted to go to med school and work at a free clinic. Money is NOT an issue. I really want to work with kids who have special needs- give them the care and attention and good teaching they need. But I am SO SCARED that I am going to miss calculus, and thermodynamics, etc, etc. How can I incorporate these things into my life without a career in them?
Public Comments
- How refreshing that you would like to work with children that have special needs! And how awesome that you wanted to work as a doctor at a free clinic. You sound like a special person. Perhaps you can incorporate the calculus and physics into a volunteer position for a non-profit organization such as an environmental organization or such. I would also suggest that you work side by side with children with special needs to help ensure that you would really like to do that 40 hours a week or so. Perhaps getting a job as an instructional aide within the public school system where you may work one on one with a student that is mainstreamed in the 'regular' classroom.
- you can make an effort and end your engineering studies and then find a job and study something that you like or work as a teacher which is more human, or give up your studies and become a teacher right through, but if you're good at engineering don't give up, there are jobs related to third world and engineering that are quite fulfilling
- Try tutoring. Or perhaps you could teach a night class at your local or area college or university.
