Career Advice Needed

Hey,
So, yesterday I was accepted into University of Michigan – Dearborn, and I was planning on being a computer hardware engineer. However, I had a career research project at the beginning of this year, and so I did it about computer hardware engineering. According to the information that I collected from several different websites, the demand for them is going to only increase by 5% from now to 2018 which is below the average. Also, I could not find an interview online of a computer *hardware* engineer. Right now, I’m 17 years old and I was planning on going to University of Michigan – Dearborn , get a Master degree in Computer hardware engineering and then transfer to another college to get a Ph.D [ Doctoral degree ].
Some of the things I’m not sure of:
How much of their time do computer hardware engineers actually use the computers rather than developing them?
I have never had any experience with creating computer hardware, so I don’t know how it’s exactly made. So, is it going to be like a group of people working on chips etc 24/7 ? I’m interested in this career because I’m interested in knowing about computer hardware such as video cards and such.
Should I stick with this career or switch to a different career?
Fast responses are greatly appreciated, since my high school is having college onsite admission at our school.
Answer #1
In all honesty. I would agree with the outlooks you have collected. The hardware department is going to be slow in going at the moment with the economy the way it is. I went to college and majored in computer engineering. If you want to go hardware. I would suggest going in for networking technologies. The networking field still has a good projected growth rate.
Answer #2
In all honesty. I would agree with the outlooks you have collected. The hardware department is going to be slow in going at the moment with the economy the way it is. I went to college and majored in computer engineering. If you want to go hardware. I would suggest going in for networking technologies. The networking field still has a good projected growth rate.
I agree with you on the networking part. However, I’m taking Cisco 2 [ networking class ] right now, and I might be CCNA Certified at the end of this year.
However, I don’t like networking Things that I’m good at are:
Graphic Designing – Make no more than $60,000. Been doing it as a hobby ever since I was 8 [ not kidding lol ]
Using Excel, Word etc – Not really that interesting to me.
Things I *Might* be interested in:
Computer software engineer – Seems boring because you have to code 24/7.
Game Designer – I use photoshop which is sort of related to this. However, they don’t make as much money unless I make professional known games.