r/ChemicalEngineering • u/MistakeSea6886 • Sep 21 '23

Salary What’s the most profitable career path?

I’m a freshmen Engineering major that is taking gen Ed’s. I am thinking of switching to chemical engineering next year. I really like ChE but but want to pick a profitable career path, which is why I’m on the fence between it and Computer science. I did research and found that petroleum engineering is very profitable, and ChE can pick it pretty quickly. However with the way the world is going(more green energy), are renewable energy jobs such as nuclear power plants going to experience a boom in demand and become more profitable?

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u/Rancid-broccoli Sep 21 '23

You should be looking for careers that interest you and can make decent money. Looking based purely off of who makes more is a guarantee that you are going to have a bad time. Happiness>>>money.

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u/CarlotheNord Sep 21 '23

This^

I'd love to go back to my high-school self and slap him. All I cared about back then was a job that would make lots of money, and even then I put essentially no thought into it. Now I work in the Alberta oil patch to try and get ahead and get into a line of work I don't hate, and by God do I hate this job.

Money isn't everything. Consider what your line of work will entail, hours required, availability, where you'd have to live, etc.

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u/TargetZealousideal29 Mar 25 '24

Bonsoir, C'est exactement là ou je veux travailler, pouvez m'en dire plus sur votre travail et condition ?