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Last modified: November 07, 2011, 01:25 PM

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This is an ideal career for analytical thinkers. Engineers invent, create and build the world around us. As an engineer you use natural and man-made chemicals and materials to make the things we use every day. It is a huge and diverse career sector with a variety of employment opportunities. You design and build roads, buildings, cars, planes, tunnels, or dams. You can work on solving problems in the medical area by creating artificial limbs or heart valves. Even everyday products such as computers and sports equipment have had an engineer work on them at some stage in their design or manufacture.

Salary p/a
60k - 297k

Qualifications
Post Graduate
Degree

Intensity
Standing

Demand
High

Travel
Medium

Conditions
Indoor

Weekly Hours
40-50

Pros

Growth and demand for engineers will continue
Both traditional and new engineering careers
Experts in managing risk

Cons

Risk management can make you overly cautious
Not paid enough relative to the importance of the job
Society unaware engineer’s are at the heart of most development

The Bottom Line

A fantastic career with global challenges and opportunities. Climate change, nuclear technology, alternative energy, infrastructure, medical and systems advancement all have problems for engineers to solve. The bucks are good, there is travel and work overseas – it’s a happening career!!

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