[johnadams121212]

Which career path do you think is the most satisfying? As in involves problem solving and use of maths?
Which one involves more client and social interaction? As in meetings, presentations etc.
Which one are you likely to be able to work on "big projects" ?
Which one offers more travel opportunities?
Which one has a higher pay ceiling?
Which one would you pick and why?

[pbsjohnz]

More maths = engineering
Client interaction = CA (but engineering wil alsol have millions of presentations and meetings)

Big projects could be both but I would say that engineering may have slightly more depending on what field you choose

I picked eng but my sister did accounts

[ProStacker]

Engineering. Big cover-all word there. Which branch of engineering? Civil? Mechanical? Aero? Chemical? Electronic?

What role? Project? Maintenance? Planning? Construction? Manufacture?

You are asking a question that is so vague you cannot answer it so you ask it here, where it is still vague. You need to think more about this rather than posting it here.

[Smack]

(Original post by johnadams121212)
Which career path do you think is the most satisfying? As in involves problem solving and use of maths?

Depends. If you find the use of maths satisfying then I'd opt for neither accountancy or engineering because in both fields maths is just a tool that's sometimes used. And I won't speak for accountancy but many engineers don't actually use any maths at all...

Which one involves more client and social interaction? As in meetings, presentations etc.

Engineers are always going on site visits and having meetings with vendors, clients etc.

Which one are you likely to be able to work on "big projects" ?

Doing what?

Which one offers more travel opportunities?

I know engineers that have to travel all over the world, at fairly short notice.

Which one has a higher pay ceiling?

Depends on how good you are. I've known some engineers who were on £1700 a day on some projects but if you're a crap engineer in a low paying industry you won't earn much more than the UK median wage. In fact you'll probably be made redundant.

Which one would you pick and why?

I picked engineering because I have no interest in accountancy.

[M1011]

(Original post by johnadams121212)
Which career path do you think is the most satisfying? As in involves problem solving and use of maths?
Which one involves more client and social interaction? As in meetings, presentations etc.
Which one are you likely to be able to work on "big projects" ?
Which one offers more travel opportunities?
Which one has a higher pay ceiling?
Which one would you pick and why?

Difficult question given very few people will have experience of both. From my limited accountancy knowledge;

1) I'm led to believe that there isn't much maths in accountancy.
2) Impossible to say, depends entirely on the actual job. There's positions where accountants are at client sites 90% of the time and positions where accountants never leave their office.
3) "Big projects?" Again entirely role specific IMO.
4) Going to assume you mean abroad. *Again* role specific, but I imagine some roles within engineering involve a lot of overseas travel whereas I think those would be few and far between for accountants.
5) Sky's the limit. Chartered accountants have a very strong presence in the boardrooms of large companies, so if you can get yourself there you could be on a shed load of money. Of course the majority won't, so it comes down to you really.
6) I know very little about engineering, so I can't really say this is an informed decision, but I went for accountancy.

[Peel]

Which career path do you think is the most satisfying? As in involves problem solving and use of maths?

Quite a personal question as to which one is satisfying as it really depends on what you want. I think engineering involves a lot more maths and problem solving - that's pretty much all engineering is tbh, but I might be wrong.

Which one involves more client and social interaction? As in meetings, presentations etc.

I'm pretty sure accountacy involves more client interaction, at least at the low-mid levels. In terms of social interaction, both work in teams so I doubt there's much to it. Having said that, many engineers are aging men. Engineers usually have weekly project meetings and present to clients on a less frequent basis - not too sure how this compares to accountancy

Which one are you likely to be able to work on "big projects" ?

Hmm, depends on what you mean by a big project, but engineering projects (at least for civil) are almost always big in terms of scale - the shard, cern, crossrail, the olympics are some of the more prominent ones.

Which one offers more travel opportunities?

Probably engineering, particularly if you work for a top multinational consultancy.

Which one has a higher pay ceiling?

Accountancy I'm sure - particularly if you include accountants who then go on to be directors at large companies. Although I know an engineer on 1 mill, but he's very much the exception rather than the rule.

Which one would you pick and why?

Engineering. Accountacy doesn't really excite me personally and I'm quite interested in international development. I do have to say that accountancy is a good career that quite a lot of my family are in: pays better, has good exit options, the crowd is younger and more gender-balanced than engineering, and companies tend to have good, central locations.