Originally posted by tch7
Once you have a few years of work experience under your belt, employers aren't going to really care much about the specifics of your degree. Therefore if you can't find jobs with just the SENG major, the yes do the double major. If you can find a job with just the SENG major, then you're better served by that extra year of work experience and income.
When I was doing my civil eng degree I was in a position to do an accelerated masters that would've added one more year of school, but I found a job easily enough with just my bachelors. I'm much better off having not done it, as that additional year of experience and income far outweighs the possible benefits of a masters.
You must be very young.
I'd take a masters for one year. It could eventually far far outweigh 1 year experience.
Case and point SVP candidate.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft