u/sirmoski

I just finished my leaving cert and was looking at college courses and process and chemical engineering in UCC caught my eye alot after much research. I want to go into the pharmaceutical engineering industry but still unsure about how the income looks like. I researched and kind of decided I will also be switching to managerial roles at a later stage in my career.
Whats the realistic salary projection numbers with years of experience. I searched alot and seen that 10-15 years of experience can get you into a senior manager role making somewhere between 140-170k before bonus but Im not sure if any of this is realistic, Im not sure if the money is realistic, Im not sure if even becoming a senior manager is realistic.
I need to decide my course in the next week and I am so lost.

I got 187 points last year which is 94%, I was doing okay on medentry getting upper 60s lower 70s questions right per full mock. I didnt get enough leaving cert points to get into med cuz I put in no effort and all I got was 521 which didnt make the cut. This year, I actually put effort in my leaving cert. I got 74/114 questions right on 6 of the full mocks I did, then 79/114 in one and 69/114 in another, so super good results in the mocks. I open my fuckass result to see 160 points (60%) which makes no sense. There is no hope in me doing medicine now because I know I did not score 600+ points in the leaving cert, and with the new course and point system next year, its going to be really unfair applying to any college because it will be easier to score points and hpat will be out of 150 only. no clue how 160 points came to life out of 187 even thought I was doing better in practice. so yeah lol ig.