freezit4,

I enjoyed reading your replies to all the forummers here. I liked that you could hold on to your decision despite the tactless and judgmental words of some people.
I don't know Biomedical Engineering, and your questions are valid. I used to wonder about Electrical Engineering at my crossroad years, and sadly I wasn't internet savvy enough to make a great decision. I would suggest you start a new topic just asking for Biomedical Engineers to come to talk about their job and their feelings on the job to you. Then sift through their words (I have faith you know how to sift out the good from the chaff) and get more evidence online about overseas job descriptions in BME.
I am a working product engineer now in a Fortune 500 company offshored here. I have been through not knowing where my interest lay and not knowing how to find out. There are people saying, you should know yourself, you should know what you want to be, you should be sure this is what you are good at - but the truth is, it is easier said than done. You may like Physics, but you may hate certain subjects in Physics like Optics, or Nuclear energy. There will be a basket of things we like and it comes with the things we don't like. Academically though, I think we should choose the things we like to study and discard the things we don't like. At the end of the day, you will be finding a job that you like, say semiconductors, which is not at all related to Power Systems, so it was ok to fail Power Systems anyway.
I'm saying this because if you like something, you will be good to outstanding at it. Everyone would have things they are good at, and things they are bad at. I do mean this academically. You should not have this attitude on a job though - if you only like doing certain stuff, you will fail to perform on those tasks that you hate, and it will show up as a poor performance review.
On the question about whether you like electronic stuff, I would suggest this article to read: Malaysian's advice
With your whole life's sense of contentment at stake, I'm sure you could invest some money in a book or two. If one book makes you want to read another book to understand the first book's contents, then you have interest. As my husband says, if you like 70 to 80% of the chapters in that book, you can go for it, because later you could specialize in one of those chapters. Otherwise, be more careful before making a conclusion - again, it could be that that chapter doesn't interest you, or you really don't like the whole subject. At your age, I'm not sure about this because you don't have the job experience to tell yourself convincingly that this is the career for you - but you can read it and ask yourself if you could keep solving these ranges of problems daily.

This post has been edited by breatheinout: Apr 16 2010, 08:39 PM

Guys, I came across this very comprehensive statistics about the profile of various engineers, and would like to share it with all.

Bureau of Labour Statistics, Engineers

Do read it carefully, and at the bottom of the page, it leads to Electronics Engineer, profile job scope, mindset of similar engineers, etc. I read this webpage and it agrees somewhat to what I'm doing, so I quite agree about its relevancy. I wouldn't take it as a bible, just get a very good overview of the Tasks and Work activities.

This should be pinned up at a higher level than Engineering, but I don't know where to put it. It can be applied to everyone of various vocations.