re: Construction Project Management and Career Changes

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I wouldn't give two shits about a homeowner. Try explaining to a plant manager why his FCCU isn't up and running and he's losing millions of dollars a day...

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Yeah, I daydream about being in residential. If I ever want to have a better life balance and take a big pay cut, I'll do it. Only way to make money in residential is if you're the GC and you own the company, though.

I'll deal with a clueless doctor and his bimbo wife 10/10 times over engineers and plant managers that have spent YEARS designing a complex new unit that costs 10s to 100s of millions of dollars and needs to be done by some absurdly aggressive deadline with the threat of liquidated damages hanging over your head. Never mind the far more dangerous work environments, the far more stringent safety/QC requirements, the far more expensive/dangerous equipment, etc

It really sucks when the client knows far more about what you're building than you do LMAO. They may be less knowledgeable about constructability in some regards, but most of the time, you aint gonna bullshite them