Why the fuck would any quantitatively inclined person do engineering instead of mathematical finance/accounting?
It's the same math but you make more. Engineers are being outsourced at record highs. You are basically a slave to some MBA that makes thrice what you do.
If you do finance/accounting, kill it, get into a decent position, then ace the GMAT and get an MBA you will make more than any engineer. And your work might even pay for the masters, deloitte does.
In engineering you make like 150k max... and that's for the top spots and google. That is the glass ceiling. That's a first year salary for someone in quantitative finance or corporate law.
Why are dorks so drawn to engineering? It is actually a terrible career unless you go into management, at which point you aren't an engineer anymore. If you're fine with being solidly upper middle class and never running the show, then fine, but if you aspire to do more, you will never do it with engineering. Our society rewards managers/administration than the people who design/build things. You either stay in that bottom rung or join them and boss around the other STEM nerds for 3 times their pay.