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Is Construction Management a good field to get into
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:00 am
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:00 am
How good of a field is CM actually? Does it pay well? Thanks
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Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:02 am to Tigahhs97
Pay is good, hours can suck. Don't spend your life behind a desk for the most part.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:03 am to LNCHBOX
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Pay is good, hours can suck. Don't spend your life behind a desk for the most part.
Basically all of this
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:03 am to Tigahhs97
Better than Petroleum right now. You are looking at the 70s for starting pay and an opportunity to move up and up. There will always be things required to be built. Also LSU is one of the best in the world for CM.
Architects don’t get jobs, and civil gets decent. CM is the way to go if you have good people and management skills.
Architects don’t get jobs, and civil gets decent. CM is the way to go if you have good people and management skills.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:04 am to Gray12
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Better than Petroleum right now.
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Gray12
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:05 am to Tigahhs97
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How good of a field is CM actually? Does it pay well? Thanks
Pays as well as you are willing to travel and not have a work life balance. You can do office gigs, where I'm at currently, that pays well enough and a better work life balance. You won't get the money the travelers do but you will also have more of a life. I met many after doing the field life for 5-10 years had enough and moved to the office.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:05 am to Gray12
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Better than Petroleum right now. You are looking at the 70s for starting pay and an opportunity to move up and up.
You shite on service companies working their new guys for minimal hourly pay but are pimping CM
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:07 am to LNCHBOX
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Pay is good, hours can suck. Don't spend your life behind a desk for the most part.
Good degree. However, I will respectfully disagree with part of this statement. Get out from behind the desk. Get in the field and learn how things are actually built.
Computer screens =/= the field. Well, not all of the time.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:07 am to Gray12
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You are looking at the 70s for starting pay
That is an outlier number and only applicable for some field positions. Starting pay, realistically is $55k to $60k.
ETA: National average
This post was edited on 8/16/19 at 10:10 am
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:07 am to Gray12
70000 right out of college? What’s the ceiling in the field?
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:08 am to Gray12
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You are looking at the 70s for starting pay
More like 40s.....
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:08 am to Tigahhs97
Yes, but you need to have a plan.
Learn as much as you can, get out to the job sites, pay your dues, network, learn to estimate, and go Inyo business for yourself.
Learn as much as you can, get out to the job sites, pay your dues, network, learn to estimate, and go Inyo business for yourself.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:08 am to Screaming Viking
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However, I will respectfully disagree with part of this statement. Get out from behind the desk. Get in the field and learn how things are actually built.
Computer screens =/= the field. Well, not all of the time.
Wut?
ETA: I'm asking you wut because I don't see what you're disagreeing with from my statement.
This post was edited on 8/16/19 at 10:10 am
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:09 am to Tigahhs97
For GCs it's great. Subcontractors it's pretty good and way less hassle than a GC.
Get a gig being a Safety or QC, then that's easy money.
Get a gig being a Safety or QC, then that's easy money.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:09 am to Tigahhs97
Most guys I know make really good money. Obviously with deadlines comes major stress but if you can handle your shite and be organized it’s great. Except when you have to be on site for that 4:30am concrete pour
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:10 am to tketaco
What’s a QC?
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:11 am to Tigahhs97
yes. get into industrial and you can make whatever you want
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:12 am to Screaming Viking
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Computer screens =/= the field. Well, not all of the time.
Wanna frick up a Project? Rely on a computer screen and never do a single layout. Problems for days.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:12 am to Tigahhs97
Quality Control Manager
Posted on 8/16/19 at 10:13 am to tketaco
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Get a gig being a Safety or QC, then that's easy money.
this
need 2 biscuits to sop up all the gravy with those jobs 
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