Seeking Advices

Got these words from some frens, esp the first one from a very wise and experienced person:

1) An engineering degree can bring us to wherever we want to go to. Spending 5 years as a process engineer doesn't give him a better prospect when he apply to be an embedded systems engineer. The field of engineering is so diverse today. But as we work longer (ie 5 years or more), if we don't go into management, tat means he is condemned. All work experience is valuable as long as we learn something from it. Not those kind of routine jobs.

2) Those are really hardcore engineering work. Essentially we need to know where we want to be 5 to 10 years down the road. Either still as an Engineer or somewhere in the management. The experience and knowledge may be useful but it is not a compulsory pre-requisite. We have to know about the company we are in now: does it gives us the opportunity to develop ourselves (upgrading) and what is the career ceiling offer to us (promotions).

3) The IA company which I worked in previously have 40 people in all. Half of which are managers which do the planning, coordination and talking. The technical people are ITE people which do checking.