Sounds like a lot of good advice on this board. Here are a couple of suggestions.
1) Read through the engineering journals and see if any of the products and designs inspire you. These journals useually have in them salary surveys and demographics of where the jobs are and what type of products and services they offer. You'll see a lot of cool designs.
Try "EE Times" for electrical and "Design News" for mechanical (use Google of course). I'm sure you can find many more.
2) The department of Labor has an "Occupational Outlook Handbook" (
www.dol.gov ). It generally describes the type of work and the demand projections for ME and EE jobs in the future. It will list all the occupations in alphabetical order. Click on "Engineering" and all fields of engineering will be shown.
3) IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) may have a local chapter in your area. See if you can interview some members to get their perspective of the job. Their websites should have contact numbers or e-mails.
One last thing. World of Warcraft may impact your grade point average. Play at your own risk.
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