I guess it depends on what you enjoy doing.

I’m having the same problem myself, so I’m keeping my options open — I’m taking pre-med courses while doing an engineering degree.

Do you want to directly help people?

Do you enjoy making something out of nothing?

Are you creative?

Can you take more years of schooling?

What I wanted to do when I started taking engineering was to just get a good degree so I can make money. But now my priorities changed. Now I want to help people ‘directly’. I want to meet new people all the time. I want to end up in a career that I know I’m gonna love. And I know that as a doctor, I will probably enjoy more, helping people.

BTW, to become an engineer all you need is a bachelor’s degree in whatever field of engineering you choose. To become a doctor, med schools are considering people who already obtained a bachelor’s degree and took the prerequisites…

If you know that you want to help people through medicine, then becoming a doctor would be the best choice. You just have to be ready for the number of years of schooling and training you’ll need to do.

If you don’t want to spend a lot of time in school, then engineering is a good career for you.

It all depends on what you want to do.

Doctor or engineer? That’s a tough one. If you’re looking at pay, then I’d say doctor, though you probably won’t be earning the big bucks until you are about 30 or so, whereas being an engineer, you get a great starting salary, and you can do it right out of college. (In the long run though, the doctor will probably get paid much more) If it’s about helping people, both professions help people, it just depends how you want to. Both are very respectable professions in their own right. Keep in mind, both disciplines are extremely hard. I’d say getting an undergraduate degree in engineering is probably harder than doing pre-med, but med school is for sure harder. I don’t know if this helped, because I didn’t really point one out…but if you want my opinion, I’d say engineer, well, because I’m an engineer.

Both degrees offer a bright future for anybody finishing these

courses, however it depends on the person if he/she will

succeed. You can be an engineer or a doctor but it does not

guarantee instant success. You have to work hard to achieve

whatever goals you are aiming for. Another factor to

consider is; are you really interested in taking a course in

medicine or engineering? I included this factor since if you

are just taking any of these two degrees just to be called

a doctor or and an engineer, I am advising you not to,

and better yet select a degree that really interest you and

you will see that you will benefit in the long run.