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Posted on 9/10/14 at 2:55 pm to LSUTOM07
Yes, it is for the PE.
There is a general moderately easy morning section then the hard as shite specific afternoon section.
The construction section is just an afternoon genre specific test. You can also take a structural, water resources and environmental, geotechnical, and transportation afternoon section.
The big key to getting approval for the test is working under a senior licensed engineer. Get yourself put under someone licensed if you have any desire to get the PE.
There is a general moderately easy morning section then the hard as shite specific afternoon section.
The construction section is just an afternoon genre specific test. You can also take a structural, water resources and environmental, geotechnical, and transportation afternoon section.
The big key to getting approval for the test is working under a senior licensed engineer. Get yourself put under someone licensed if you have any desire to get the PE.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 2:59 pm to LSUengineer12
The vast majority of people dislike their jobs. A question for anyone who says otherwise would be "would you still do what you do if you had a billion dollars?". I'm willing to bet over 90% of people would say no.
Now does that mean everyone should go and quit their jobs tomorrow? Absolutely not, but I think much more people need to get out of the mindset that work defines you. Most people's lives revolve around work. If you truly love it then great, but if you don't you have to learn how to separate work and life. Work is simply a means to make money, what you do outside of work defines who you are.
Now does that mean everyone should go and quit their jobs tomorrow? Absolutely not, but I think much more people need to get out of the mindset that work defines you. Most people's lives revolve around work. If you truly love it then great, but if you don't you have to learn how to separate work and life. Work is simply a means to make money, what you do outside of work defines who you are.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 3:08 pm to jimbeam
I know two civils that had good jobs and hated them. Quit and went back to school. One in the medical field and one in finance. I don't think I could be a true engineer, but the degree has gotten me a chance at an awesome job as technical support. No real calculations, just use my experience to determine what options should be looked at. I love it. I feel like you can always find something unless you really have your heart set on something that absolutely requires a different degree (doctor, etc.)
Posted on 9/10/14 at 3:53 pm to KG6
Yep. Graduated in Finance and worked in banking. Hated it.
Became an Army Officer. About to start year 6. Wouldn't change a thing.
Became an Army Officer. About to start year 6. Wouldn't change a thing.
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Posted on 9/10/14 at 4:49 pm to webbgem
Civil here as well and definitely do not love my job but I do not dread going to work as I did with my previous job. But then again, I am not sure I would enjoy any desk job. 40 hours a week in a cubicle is no way to live.
Wouldnt mind getting a career in something completely unrelated to civil but I do not have any real specific passion or even experience in anything else. I guess the unknown is what keeps me doing what I am doing.
Wouldnt mind getting a career in something completely unrelated to civil but I do not have any real specific passion or even experience in anything else. I guess the unknown is what keeps me doing what I am doing.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 8:36 pm to LSUengineer12
Graduated in finance and worked in a bank for 9 months. Hated it. I don't hate the job I have now but I'm pretty unsatisfied with it. There's very little room for advancement (monetarily speaking).
I want to go back to school and get either a) get an accounting degree or b) take the required accounting classes to take the cpa. Idk how though while I'm working. It's a conundrum.
I want to go back to school and get either a) get an accounting degree or b) take the required accounting classes to take the cpa. Idk how though while I'm working. It's a conundrum.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 8:44 pm to LSUengineer12
I did, but it was my fault because I got a bullshite degree. Went back and got an MBA and it opened doors for me that wouldn't have been opened otherwise. I am Almost where I want to be now and am much more happy.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 9:49 pm to LSUengineer12
I'm still very fresh into my business career and so far I enjoy the people, the company, the culture, and believe I actually provide value to them. That said, I can't envision myself doing this forever. I sit in airports and see all the miserable looking people who seem like they hate their jobs. I don't ever want to be that person. I will try to set out on my own at some point, but this is the perfect gig for the time being.
Also would like to be a teacher as a second career later down the road.
Also would like to be a teacher as a second career later down the road.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 11:53 pm to eng08
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Another thing is all we have is structural work for the foreseeable future and I fricking hate it.
Why?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 6:56 am to Slickback
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Also would like to be a teacher as a second career later down the road.
I'm with you on that. I tutored for like 3 years in college and loved doing it. Something about teaching that I love. Its rewarding in ways. The only thing that prevented me from teaching was of course money. Would def look into it when i'm old and gray after retirement.
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Went back and got an MBA
Highly considering this. At my company, you can't hold a managerial position without it.
The company I work for is great. Good atmosphere, good people, and good lifestyle, but the cubical life is painstakingly uninteresting. Guess I have to keep telling myself I've only been out of school for 2 years. Just need to grind it out and see what the future holds.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 7:35 am to eng08
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Yep, majority work to live not live to work.
This. It is called "work" for a reason.
And the first 5 years (give or take) in the workforce suck for almost all.
You suck at your job when you first start and it is hard. It takes time to get good at what you do, move up, etc.
It gets easier for most as you get better at what you do and start getting people under you to do what you used to hate when you started, but those early years suck for almost all in any job.
Personally, I pretty much lived for the weekends where I went hard and partied and did a lot of fun stuff with friends, girlfriends, etc those early years. Hell, I still do to an extent. Work hard to have the means to play hard. The job is a means to an end. Not so concerned about getting some sort of personal satisfaction from it. It is there to make me money so I can have and do stuff for the most part.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 8:06 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
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The job is a means to an end. Not so concerned about getting some sort of personal satisfaction from it. It is there to make me money so I can have and do stuff for the most part.
Exactly how I feel. I could not imagine working a job and being excited about going in.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 8:20 am to urinetrouble
Why what? Why do I hate structural design work? Or why is it all we have?
I just don't enjoy structural steel design. I get it, I understand it, I'm ok at it, but I don't enjoy it. I got a CE major and an environmental minor and was interested in coastal stuff at first.
And I totally agree that the first 5 years are miserable and you are still figuring out what you want to do. I don't mind that and I fully expect that.
I actually enjoy most of my work, my projects, and all the people I work with. I don't have anything bad to really say about them.
My big issue is I see no long term future for me doing what I'm doing now and there is no room to move up in my current group.
I'm sitting around a fair amount of time recently which really doesn't help with any of this as well.
I work next to a few 40 and 50 year old guys that are doing the exact same thing as they did when they were my age. They make more $, but to me that is only part of the equation. I don't want to be doing the same thing in 20 years and have decided to make a change.
I just don't enjoy structural steel design. I get it, I understand it, I'm ok at it, but I don't enjoy it. I got a CE major and an environmental minor and was interested in coastal stuff at first.
And I totally agree that the first 5 years are miserable and you are still figuring out what you want to do. I don't mind that and I fully expect that.
I actually enjoy most of my work, my projects, and all the people I work with. I don't have anything bad to really say about them.
My big issue is I see no long term future for me doing what I'm doing now and there is no room to move up in my current group.
I'm sitting around a fair amount of time recently which really doesn't help with any of this as well.
I work next to a few 40 and 50 year old guys that are doing the exact same thing as they did when they were my age. They make more $, but to me that is only part of the equation. I don't want to be doing the same thing in 20 years and have decided to make a change.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 9:29 am to rintintin
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The vast majority of people dislike their jobs. A question for anyone who says otherwise would be "would you still do what you do if you had a billion dollars?". I'm willing to bet over 90% of people would say no.
I wouldn't work if I had a billion dollars, and I like my job. That's too large of a sum to make the point you're trying to make.
I think it would take $10 million for me to quit my job.
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