re: Construction Project Management and Career Changes

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Sounds like you need a company change, not a career change.

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Have you considered working for a subcontractor? Its more specialized and sometimes can be less stress than working for a GC and being pulled in a 100 different directions (don't get me wrong its still construction). I went the GC route for 4 years, the subcontractors route for 7, and now I'm on the Owner/Developer side. The stress has progressively lessoned and through my personally experience the only way I was able to pull my self out of any work funk was to move on.

To me, and I've been through this, is your scared of the change. You work in an industry that's constantly changing everyday there is the unexpected or unknown that you have to deal with and the only consistent thing you can rely on is the job you have. Its like we almost trick ourselves into thinking that staying put is better than moving on. But as you can see from most of the other posters taking the next step of moving on will help out tremendously.

Good luck either way. Its sounds like you are good, well trained PM who could work anywhere.