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If I remember correctly, in Maslow's scheme you had to evolve through the lower needs before reaching the top.
Just an afterthought - being you can become disenchanted or burned out in any endeavor, if you picked a field of work that paid well AND invested wisely you would have a cushion for early retirement OR you would be able to afford to retrain yourself.
Look at how computers revolutionized our society. There is bound to be something else down the road that does the same. Get money. Keep your options open.
That is true, however you can't always get jobs that make money. Look at what jobs have been created since the recession, low wage part-time jobs. Let me just say, there is some money in those jobs but not enough to create a cushion. That and often due to weird scheduling, not enough to get a second part-time job...
Major in what you want to study and what interests you.
Many people I knew in college majored in finance/accounting even though it wasn't their passion. A vast majority of them went back to school to become history teachers. Someone else joined the army as an enlisted infantryman and is now going back to school to be a teacher.
If you don't enjoy what you're studying, you won't really like the job. and unhappiness isn't worth all of the money in the world, really.
In my 20's, I would have said, "follow your heart and study arts/literature". But now as a crusty older person who needs to pay bills and work to raise a family, I think it is important to prepare for your future wisely while in college. Stick with the engineering degree if you can make A's in the coursework -- it's a high-paying, fairly recession proof field, and you will be thankful for the degree down the road. Then study anything that interests you at the Master's level or as a post-bacc, while you are employed.
But if you can't make all A's due to a lack of interest, you will end up hurting yourself with a low GPA. A poor performance would hurt your ability to find good interships, compete for top jobs, and get into graduate school. So dig deep and decide what you really are capable of accomplishing.
I would suggest that you at least start the engineering curriculum. There are several different disciplines within engineering, including civil engineering which involves designing buildings, bridges, roads, etc. that can open the door to a lot of creativity. You could also do a double major in engineering and design (art) which would open up a variety of career options.
If architect Frank Lloyd Wright had been a competent engineer, so many of his buildings wouldn't have so many terminal or near-terminal faults. John A Roebling, who was a more than competent engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge, which was not only a marvelous engineering feat for its time, but is beautiful in and of itself, not to mention that it's still in use 130 years later!
But if you can't make all A's due to a lack of interest, you will end up hurting yourself with a low GPA.
Unless you are extremely bright, you will not make all A's in engineering no matter how hard you try.
Rocket science really isn't that easy. It is not just hype.
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