there is a book and a test that evaluates your strengths. Called Strengths Finder by Tom Rath, Amazon had the best price when I looked. Has a one time code for the online test. The point of the book is if you work in the areas of your strengths you will be the happiest and most successful.

Financial literacy is crucial to truly achieving financial independence. The book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," Kiyosaki suggests accounting with knowledge of stocks, bonds, possibly real estate, and taxes to protect your money and using the rules for your money to make more for you. I just saw yesterday an Accounting major with a tutor and smiling. No doubt that Software eng. will also open opportunities and increased marketability to your likability since systems/network thinking will create the leaders of tomorrow. Good Luck.

Mike, "software engineer" is a misnomer, there are only computer programers. Engineers are people you actually make real things or drive trains! I have been a chemical engineer for 30+ years and have seen the the engineering profession decline throughout that time. This is due to this country's abandonment of manufacturing as our economic base and switching to finance or in other words a "Ponzi scheme."

I have always said, “Engineering was an interesting way to make a living till the MBA’s SUCKED all the fun out of it.”

I am a end of career engineer and I would recommend you stay in accounting. Definitely do not change your major based on an on-line quiz. The problem with engineering in general is it is too instable. The only secure engineering jobs in aerospace is in the "skunk works" because of the high level of security clearance required to work on these projects, but these are only a handful of engineering jobs compared to the thousands of engineering positions. All the rest can vanish overnight should congress cut funding for your project or your industry go through a downturn. Engineers are the first cut because they can be cut with minimal immediate negative impact, have higher than average wages and the cost savings can be doctored on the books to look to be much larger than they are. Layoffs have become a way of passing off corporate risk to employees. If the corporation passes risk to the shareholders the price of stock goes down quickly to compensate, pass it off to the bondholder and bondholders raise the interest rate on future bonds to compensate, but employees can do nothing if laid off. Layoffs can occur as frequently as every ten years and can last up to two years for an engineer and each cycle a certain number of engineers become cabdrivers, dishwashers or lawn service managers. As an engineer you will have to also deal with the downward wage pressure from contract engineering being done in China. (i.e. $10.00 per hour engineering). Take my advice stay in accounting, get a minor in mathematics and or IT, then either get an MBA or go to law school you will be far better off 10 years from now than your fellow students who got engineering degrees.

I would recommend against chemical engineering in my personal experience. I have been looking for 2 years for an entry level position without success. I would think mechanical, civil, electrical, or computer engineering would be the best choices.

Mike,

As others had said do what you are passionate about. Engineers have always amused me because they get defined into specific fields. I understand why this is the case but a mechanical engineer needs to understand how a material may break down over time which bleeds into understanding various chemical interactions in an environment. Next can come the civil engineering and how an overall structure that the mechanical subsystem is a part of will need to built and on and on it goes.

In the end if more than one area appeals to you be brave enough to pursue them because that can and will uniquely set you apart from the crowd.

Very interesting Mike!