Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/workexperience#wiki_work_experience

Every year, AskEngineers has a thread where working engineers from major disciplines can contribute their professional work experiences. The purpose of this is to give students, young engineers, and engineers from other industries an idea of what engineers actually do at work. It will hopefully give readers some info that can help them navigate their career a little better, or simply be educational and informative.

There seems to be a recent influx of high school students and other prospective college students asking what engineering major they should choose, or wondering what engineers actually do at their jobs. The AskEngineers work experience posts linked above was created to address these questions. These "what major should I choose?" threads are not allowed according to our submission guidelines due to the high number we get every year. Our users have complained in the past that these threads become very spammy and take over subreddit traffic.

That said, I haven't locked any of the ones posted so far as they are technically allowed if you follow the guidance below.

tl;dr BEFORE posting about how to choose your college major:

1. Ideally, you should have already made your decision on which major to choose (or at least narrowed it down) based on info in our Frequently Asked Questions page... so if you haven't done any reading yet, please do so before posting.

2. Come up with followup questions about the specific engineering discipline you're interested in and include them in your post. Some examples of relevant followup questions:

   • what's the job outlook for this field?
   • are there any jobs in this field that allows frequent travel?
   • what's the work-life balance like for a typical job in this field?

3. Finally, use the search function and look for past threads asking the same question. Many of the questions you have may have been answered in the past.

Occasionally check back on your thread for new comments so that you can answer followup questions and provide more info. The more information you provide, the more our users can help you. Here's an example of a recent thread that was well taken care of by its OP: https://redd.it/5vqwxu

'Clarificaton' posts are generally allowed

The most common of these is probably "what's the difference between Computer, Software, and Electronics engineering?". I realize that not every engineering discipline is in the FAQ and that some of the entries aren't very comprehensive, so if the discipline you're asking about isn't adequately covered, feel free to make a post with your questions about it.