00:00is a civil engineering major or civil
00:04worth it that's what we're going to be
00:06talking about today and let's jump
00:07right into it first off what exactly is
00:11civil engineering with civil engineering
00:13you're going to focus on planning
00:14building and implementing large
00:16infrastructure projects
00:18besides engineering a lot of the skills
00:20you're going to run into
00:21are going to be computer science
00:23surveying project management and
00:25analytical problem solving now there's
00:27around 13 000 people that graduate with
00:30degree every year at a bachelor's level
00:32now there's four important components
00:34we're gonna go over but first thing
00:35we're gonna talk about is going to be
00:37salary so with this degree you would
00:38expect to make around 61 000 a year
00:41starting out in 103 000 in in mid-career
00:44if you became a civil engineer you would
00:46make around eighty seven thousand
00:48dollars a year which is around forty one
00:51hour another career path you might go
00:52down is becoming a surveyor and they
00:54make around sixty three thousand a year
00:57and thirty dollars an hour and there's a
00:58bunch of other related careers i'm gonna
01:01go ahead and leave a list of them up on
01:03the screen and you can check them out if
01:04this is a degree you're interested in
01:05and you'll see that most of them are
01:07relatively well paying
01:08and when you look at engineering over a
01:10lifetime you see that it's the highest
01:12paying type of degree
01:14they make around 3.5 million dollars
01:16over a lifetime whereas the average
01:18degree is going to make 2.4 million now
01:20of course this is data from about 40
01:22years ago up until now this is the
01:24but you know maybe the census data 40
01:26years from now will show that other
01:28types of degrees are more lucrative
01:30now i always recommend that you try to
01:31go for a career where you could make
01:3375 000 a year because studies have shown
01:38increases on average up to about 75 to
01:42and then after that you don't really
01:44increase in happiness as you make more
01:46money so it's always a good idea to
01:47maximize your happiness and so most
01:49people are going to be happiest once
01:51they're making around 75 to 80 000 a
01:54and this degree can definitely get you
01:56to that point so overall engineering
01:58really well the salary score is going to
02:02now when it comes to satisfaction first
02:04we're going to talk about
02:05meaning and civil engineering degrees
02:09meaning score which is basically how
02:10much you think your career
02:12positively impacts the world you can
02:14compare that to one with a very high and
02:16a very low meaning score and you'll see
02:18that it is on the higher side so this is
02:20a degree that leads to careers where
02:22people find a lot of meaning
02:24if you look specifically at the career
02:26of civil engineering you'll see that it
02:29meaning score so even better and if you
02:31look at the job satisfaction it's 71
02:34and again you can compare that to a
02:36really good one and a really bad one and
02:38you'll see that it is on the better side
02:40now when it comes to how much people
02:42regret their degrees engineering is the
02:45least regretted type of degree only
02:47around 15 of engineer graduates regret
02:50and the main reason is because some of
02:51the best jobs require an advanced degree
02:54and i do want to emphasize here that
02:56this is the most subjective section by
02:58far for one person it could be like a
03:00one out of ten and another person it
03:01could be like an 11 out of 10 amazing
03:04best career ever so take all this with a
03:07your job satisfaction meaning could also
03:09have a lot to do with you know who your
03:11manager is who you work for the company
03:13you work for industry you work in your
03:15co-workers etc there's so many different
03:17things that can impact this
03:18but with that being said i am going to
03:20give this one a score of 7.5 out of 10.
03:23next we're going to be talking about
03:25demand and when it comes to engineers
03:27demand is a little bit
03:29weird so for instance when you look up
03:31the job of civil engineering you'll see
03:35000 jobs available right now and it's
03:37only growing at about 2
03:39which is slower than average that means
03:40over the next 10 years only 5
03:42500 jobs are going to pop up even though
03:45there's tons of people graduating every
03:47year so if you look at that you would
03:48probably think there's a huge imbalance
03:50and there's a ton of unemployed civil
03:52engineers well there may not be
03:54that many jobs specifically for civil
03:58people who graduate with a civil
04:00engineering degree generally are able to
04:02a job in a related career and these
04:04types of careers tend to be relatively
04:08and generally speaking when you look at
04:09unemployment rates with the different
04:10degree types you'll see that engineering
04:12degrees tend to be on the lower side
04:14stem degrees in general but engineering
04:16aren't bad and when you look up the
04:18keyword civil engineering degrees on
04:20monster.com you'll see that about 8700
04:23job listings have that keyword
04:25in the description you can compare that
04:27to a degree that has tons of demand like
04:29computer science with 141 000 or one
04:32that doesn't have very much demand at
04:33and anthropology at under 1 000 and
04:36you'll see that it's pretty decent i
04:37know that might not seem very good but
04:40is definitely on the higher side uh
04:42computer science is kind of like a freak
04:43outlier and one thing you'll notice here
04:45is even if businesses aren't actively
04:48looking for people who have
04:49civil engineering degrees a lot of the
04:51time if you apply to just a random job
04:53that's like you know pretty well paying
04:55like a business job for instance and you
04:57have a civil engineering degree
04:59you're more likely to get hired than if
05:00you had a degree that might not be as
05:02well respected a lot of companies have
05:04the philosophy that they're going to
05:05hire engineers and they're just
05:07basically going to hire the smartest and
05:09hardest working people
05:10they can and then they can teach them
05:11how to do the specific skills required
05:14later on so with that being said the
05:15score here is going to be
05:178.5 out of 10. next we're going to be
05:19talking about x factors and that is
05:21anything that we didn't go over before
05:24think is important and the first thing
05:25we're going to go over is
05:27i mentioned before the engineering
05:28degrees in general over a lifetime are
05:30going to make around 3.5 million
05:32not only that though engineering degrees
05:35go into completely unrelated careers
05:38still tend to earn a lot more than even
05:41the degrees that are related to that
05:44so for instance engineers that become
05:46artists will make around three million
05:48dollars over a lifetime engineers that
05:50get into community and legal services
05:51will make 3.2 million over a lifetime
05:54so you see that engineers almost all
05:56across the board are going to be making
05:59more money over a lifetime than a lot of
06:01different types of degrees
06:02pretty much no matter what career path
06:04they end up going down
06:06now a lot of people will say it's
06:07correlation or causation you know maybe
06:09it's because engineers are just really
06:11smart and people who are able to do
06:13are just really smart in the first place
06:15nobody really knows but
06:17i tend to think that it does teach you
06:19some skills that are useful no matter
06:21what career path you end up going down
06:23now speaking of skills ziprecruiter's
06:25skill index has civil engineering at 61
06:27out of 100 and you can compare that to a
06:29really high one and a really low one and
06:31you'll see that it's definitely on the
06:33on top of that when you look at the
06:34likelihood of automation for pretty much
06:37any type of engineering degree it's
06:38always going to be pretty low so for
06:40instance in this case it's
06:411.9 percent and i've mentioned this
06:44before but i doubt the engineering
06:45related careers would ever be able to be
06:47fully outsourced just because you have
06:49to be able to communicate really well
06:51in person there's a lot of tangible and
06:55involved there a lot of creativity
06:57involved a lot of the time you're going
06:59be on site so you can touch things and
07:02issues so i highly doubt that an
07:05engineering related career would ever be
07:08outsourced another thing is that
07:10engineering degrees tend to create a ton
07:12of millionaires and in my opinion the
07:14reason why is because so many people end
07:16up starting their own businesses when
07:18they get an engineering degree
07:19a lot of the time engineers are kind of
07:21on the cutting edge of technology and so
07:23it's very easy for them to
07:25see problems that can be solved and
07:27that's basically what entrepreneurship
07:28is it's practical problem solving so if
07:30you're somebody who might want to start
07:32a business in the future this might be
07:33something for you to look into
07:35i always like to mention that
07:36engineering related degrees are very
07:38difficult so you've got to know what
07:39you're getting yourself
07:40into very tough you know if you want to
07:42go to college and just
07:44party all the time engineering is going
07:45to be tough for you to
07:47accomplish that unless you're a genius
07:49but overall i'm going to give this one
07:50an x factor score of
07:529 out of 10. so when you add all those
07:54up and you divided by 4 you're going to
07:56overall score of 8.5 out of 10. this is
07:59great degree for the right person as
08:02always make sure you do your due
08:04research it reach out to people who are
08:06in careers that you're interested in
08:08figure out what your strengths and
08:10weaknesses are what your passions are
08:12what your natural talents are
08:14and figure out what types of careers
08:15align with that don't just go into this
08:17one because i recommend it or because i
08:19say that it's high paying or anything
08:21along those lines that is a bad
08:23idea but if you want some help doing
08:25research on college degrees you can
08:27check out my college degree ranker down
08:29in the description below
08:30on that i basically compiled a list of
08:32all of the most important factors that
08:34you should consider in my opinion when
08:36you're looking at different college
08:37degrees so if you don't want to wait for
08:39a video to come out that you're waiting
08:40for you can just check out my college
08:42degree ranker down below
08:43and there's a good chance that you'll
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