The one maybe positive thing that came out of our conversation was that she said she might take a break from school. I have a 2 bed room apartment and live by myself, so I told her she is more than welcome to crash with me while she gets her affairs in order.

So, I might in fact be going to kidnap (willingly, though) her back to Auburn.

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You can get in the industry without being a PE. The majority of the tools guys are mechanical engineers that get paid really well and don't know shite about a lot of petroleum stuff. It's our economies driver, there are PLENTY of paths to take.

Oh, yeah. I know. My dad and I have talked about it a good bit. Lot of Mech and Chem guys in the oil field. As well as some geologists.

Good thing about MechE, there really isn't a field I can't go into. I'm the jack-of-all-trades Engineer.

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Posted by TeLeFaWx

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Posted on 10/22/13 at 11:12 pm to GeauxWarTigers

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Good thing about MechE, there really isn't a field I can't go into. I'm the jack-of-all-trades Engineer.

Correct in a lot of ways, but in a lot of way a lack of specialization is a bad thing unless you don't get complacent. My mentor in my company(right out side of the fortune 100) was a mechanical engineer at A&M who grew up in an oil field family that did what you did for that very reason he didn't want to feel pigeon holed. Well he ends up at an oilfield service company anyway, his degree helped him get a variety of training, and he was a Senior VP before he was 40. Now, obviously he's a special case, and most people never dream of that kind of success but he tells me he sort of wish he went back and was petroleum the whole time. I look at his career path and think hell, maybe I should have double majored in mechanical. The grass is always greener I guess.

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