Electrical Engineering or Technical Communications?
I never thought i'd ever be in this position in my 3rd year of college. Im currently majoring in electrical engineering but I just can't handle all the math! I've always had a passion for electronics and the latest tech but it seems like the only thing in the way is math. I have very great communication skills in every area, so im thinking of switching to tech communication. What do you think I should do?
You're also welcome to suggest any other fields. I just have to figure out how to put all these prerequisites to good use .
Im pretty behind right now just finished calc 1 & Physics 1 w/ calc. GPA is going down. Are there any other ways of getting in to the electronics industry?
Don't do it!!!!! Technical communications is boring. fist blueprint reading and schematics. Then product manuals and marketing materials. The focus of technical communications is simply giving you the knowledge to comprehend technical data from engineers and translate that into information appropriate for the target demographic. It may be general consumers,other engineers. Bottom line you are an interpreter. If you want to be sedentary all day and probably get carpal tunnel go for it. Also once the documentation is completed you will have to do even more mundane task such as upgrade revisions or a small factor do to something minor like a firmware change. I think you should suck it up and get through the math. Even if you have to dedicate an entire semester to that one class. We all have weak points. You can breeze through technical communications later and do contract jobs as you choose from home for any company in the world and make extra cash, but to do it all day every day no. I went crazy handling internal documentation like writing work instructions and test methods for floor workers to follow from us in engineering. Thank go it only took about 25% of my time. How much math do you have to go? You must have gotten lots out of the way for prerequisites to get you to year 3. I think if you stick with your passion and suffer some know it will payoff when you find yourself doing what you are passionate about for the next 50 years after graduation.
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