Career Advice: IT to Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Hi there,

I have just recently graduated from uni with a BSc in software engineering and after having been working for 9 months I have realised that I do not want to be stuck sitting at a desk for the rest of my life and would like to do something which provides me with a bit more of variety in my working day.

I am running through my options to decide whether or not to go back to uni to re-train to do something else and Electrical/Electronic Engineering does appeal to me, but now that I have better idea with what I want from a job/career I am doing a bit more research (which is perhaps what I should have done in the first place, but hey! life's a bitch, you live and you learn

and all that crap) into the fields I am interested in....

So the questions are...

If I re-studied at uni to do Electrical/Electronic Engineering what are the chances that I could get a job which doesn't involve just sitting at a desk 9 to 5pm? (9 to 5 suits me with working late accepted as deadlines arrive, but something which involves work in the field as well as behind a desk is what I'm looking for)

Is there a particular area (specialisation) which has a high percentage of a new graduate working in Electrical/Electronics? (e.g. with IT the job market has a 90%+ chance of working with databases)

and finally will my current IT background help me in anyway in pursuing this as a new career option?

Sorry if I seem ignorant here with any questions, as I am just starting to contemplate this change and am looking for advice from people who have studied this directly and not some career advisor.

Many thanks in advance.

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