re: Attention engineers and engineer students...

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I need some advice....

I have a son who attends NC State University in Raleigh. He is a junior majoring in electrical engineering. He has already received a minor in math and Mandarin Chinese.

Yesterday he calls me and tells me he doesnt think he can do it anymore. He was under such distress it is breaking my heart and I just dont know how to support him. He says he is in the highest level engineering classes and that it is impossibly hard. His biggest concern is that he worries the work he is doing now is what he is going to be doing the rest of his life.

Can someone please tell me what electrical engineers really do for a living and is he going to be limited to working in a cubical doing impossibly difficult math for the rest of his life. I just dont know what to tell him. My instinct wants to tell him to stick it out... but I dont want to be responsible for encouraging him into a career he hates. Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.


PS. He loves computer engineering but NCSU will NOT let him switch programs.

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