Careers: Do You Actually Want to be a Manager?: Understand the Pros and Cons Before You Decide to Switch Tracks

As you begin your professional career, freshly armed with an engineering degree, your initial roles and responsibilities are likely to revolve around what you learned at school. If you do well in your job, you're apt to be promoted and gain responsibilities, such as managing projects, interacting with other departments, making presentations to management, and meeting with customers. You will probably also acquire a general understanding of how your company and the business world work.