I chose to do my career project on Software Engineering, based on my last blog post. I'm still not a hundred percent sure about it, but it does seem like an attractive option so far. The salary is good, various articles make it sound like there's a fairly good job market and it's only increasing, and all those logistic things don't seem to be much of an issue.
There's a couple more things I've been thinking about so far, though. A few people have mentioned that software engineering would be too much of a "cubicle job", since you just sit a computer and code all day. Now, I don't really have a problem with the actual coding part - as I discussed previously, I'm good at it and it's a fun sort of puzzle - but I don't know how long I'd be satisfied with not doing anything else, just sitting there. I don't know if I'd feel like I'd be living life to the fullest, as cliche as that sounds.
I've also been considering various other types of engineering, ones that might involve similar problem-solving strategies. A friend of mine is considering chemical engineering, and aerospace sounds pretty cool too. These would all be a lot more...active careers than software engineering, but they're still not quite the same. I don't think I'd enjoy being a mechanical engineer, though. The possibilities are a bit too infinite, if that makes any sense.
