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Is Engineering degree harder than ACCA?
 
Yes [ 157 ] ** [40.15%]
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post Jun 6 2021, 12:07 AM

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During my degree engineering course back in those days we were made to take accountancy subjects as well.
I managed to score over 90% back then and it was among the easiest subjects in my engineering course.
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post Jun 6 2021, 12:26 AM

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QUOTE(9m2w @ Jun 6 2021, 12:15 AM)
Engineering is kinda like the Nights Watch from GoT, a thankless job most of the time.

You want fame. glory. riches, bitches, get something else. Odds are you do something great no one knows or cares. You make ppl's life easier but they wont know you're there.

Of course some fields does bring in the money but these days with the proliferation of grads its becoming the outlier.
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I wasted my 20s studying engineering, thought it paid off when I managed to graduate with Dean Commendation List from a top major Australian university which placed me in better position than even Yeo Bee Yin back then.

Came back to Malaysia to find a job closer to my parents and my first starting salary was just slightly above RM3k? doh.gif

Competition is intense and STEM demand in Malaysia is low.
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post Jun 6 2021, 12:30 AM

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QUOTE(diffyhelman2 @ Jun 6 2021, 12:21 AM)
If you think mechanics is difficult wait till you encounter fluid dynamics or electromagnetic theory.
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Actually all the struggles and hardship learning those calculations they're rarely utilized in the real working world.

Even my senior colleagues who are brilliant staff engineers in the Silicon Valley admitted that what you learned in school rarely gets utilized on the job.
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post Jun 6 2021, 12:33 AM

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QUOTE(Yggdrasil @ Jun 6 2021, 12:11 AM)
Are you sure it's accounting? Maybe bookkeeping like double entries or Introduction to Accounting whereby just prepare balance sheet and P/L?
Real accounting is more complex than that but still not as complex as engineering.
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Yeah probably basic accounting, I admit totally forgot most of the advanced calculations I learnt back in university already today.

It's totally very different approach once you get into the working world. Kinda wasted if you asked me.
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post Jun 6 2021, 12:36 AM

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QUOTE(9m2w @ Jun 6 2021, 12:30 AM)
I got First Class but it was a local U.

I attended Management Trainee interviews for a few PLCs and GLCs but didnt cut it, settled for a job that paid 1,700 in 2000. It was stiff back then even with a limited pool. I can only imagine now

But hey you got offered more than 3K thats nearly twice mine hahah
Actually i think what you learn, the tough stuff do serve a purpose. Its to weed out students without the aptitude for engineering from taking up or graduating from it. Harsh but look where we are now. Too few jobs for too many engineers
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I admit! If you were to ask me to solve those questions back during my engineering course time now I barely can remember anything out of it unless I undergo a refresher course. laugh.gif
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post Jun 6 2021, 12:38 AM

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QUOTE(holypredator @ Jun 6 2021, 12:37 AM)
I'm surprise... no one even ask... what kind of engineering degree are we talking about here..
seems like a lot of people don't even know what are they even talking about...
Aerospace engineering and electrical engineering are hard...

Mechanical engineering... environmental engineering... etc. these are easy as hell degrees.... especially if it is not caltec/standford level.... their final year project is just rehash of shit already exist... farking degree mill jer
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Microelectronics E&E.

I don't know how I went into Optronics from there. doh.gif
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post Jun 6 2021, 12:41 AM

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QUOTE(diffyhelman2 @ Jun 6 2021, 12:38 AM)
Perhaps it’s not just the course? For eg, ppl here who are book smart but kayu ppl gravitate towards the engineering course. The not book smart but good eq end up in acct. hence you see the biz and acct grads high flyers.
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Some of my cousins graduate with masters in Engineering but ended up in the banking industry doh.gif
No girlfriend or chance to meet girls because probably less than 5 in the class..


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post Jun 6 2021, 12:45 AM

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QUOTE(Starbucki @ Jun 6 2021, 12:42 AM)
I wouldn't really pit one against another when it comes to EQ or comm skills. Most accountants are kayu and some are screaming banshees with regards to EQ.

Deswai I wouldn't really say which course is harder, or that one attracts better people. Too broad a topic.
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But but lots of engineering students end up as forever-alones unlike some popular courses where by the time they graduate they're already in steady relationship close to marriage after a few years into their jobs.
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post Jun 6 2021, 08:43 PM

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QUOTE(Yggdrasil @ Jun 6 2021, 02:49 AM)
True. The ratio of females to male is like 1.5 to 1.
No reason for guys to be single  biggrin.gif
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Ratio of females to males according to Malaysian statistics is 100 female to 106 male.
That's like a ratio of 1.00 : 1.06.

No reason for guys to be single?

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https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5151265
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post Jun 6 2021, 09:01 PM

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QUOTE(Yggdrasil @ Jun 6 2021, 08:49 PM)
I'm talking about Big 4 demographics.
Ratio of female to male is around 1.5:1.

If you from engineering, the ratio of female to male is like 0.2:1.
Good luck finding a gf laugh.gif

I had a friend who did engineering. He said his whole lecture hall only got <10 girls.
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Went past my studies days.

When this pandemic ends, globalization will see a reversal after this. You can see the anti-asian movement now in Western countries such as US.

This is Malaysia and of course we speak of the gender breakdown in our own country.
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post Jun 6 2021, 09:05 PM

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QUOTE(diffyhelman2 @ Jun 6 2021, 09:03 PM)
Interestingly enough that 32.75 million includes almost three million foreigners. I wager that the vast majority of those foreigners are male. If you restrict to native born Malaysians i think you’ll find the ratio close to 1:1.
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Let's not forget those "foreigners" might be after our native aweks and amois competing with our own as well.

You never know.

 

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