MWP

I have been in Houston for almost 30 years. I bet I know more LSU grads in my subdivision than I do back home in Louisiana. I honestly think LSU gives graduates a map of Houston along with their diploma. However what’s odd is I rarely meet anyone from North LA. Everyone here is all from South LA. I guess Yankee Louisiana people move to Dallas.

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I think the young bros are just hitting roids again.

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Did they ever stop? Seems like Tren is the rage now.

Lots of bank to fish down in Galveston in the surf. I actually like to fish the pocket on the backside of the East jetties but you would need to cross the ferry or drive over to Winnie and head South from League City. It doesn’t get as jacked up by the wind and stays pretty flat over there but sharks are bad and there are no shortage of rays. Texas City Dyke is another option but the surf is the best bet for consistency when it doesn’t look like chocolate milk.

Damn I could think of some really random shite to ponder but never in a million years would this ever cross my mind.

If I could have only been the first downvote.

The last thing to probably ever cross my mind is pulling a car with my junk.

Speaking as a person that worked his way up from the field level to my current role as Director/VP in the Pipeline Construction field, I would say a CM degree with a minor in Accounting would give you a definite advantage. Taking Spanish as someone mentioned is a huge plus since that will be your predominant labor pool if you stay in the Gulf South, but my biggest piece of advice would be to try and either intern with a construction company or just just go get a field job in whatever construction element you want to go into. That experience will be invaluable and will give you a huge leg up over some kid that did nothing but earn a degree with no field experience.

After my Plan A goal in life back almost 30 years ago as a career Marine Officer got derailed because of an injury, I was forced to go to Plan B and that was Oil
And Gas. I went out and got hired on as a laborer on a pipeline job over a Summer after the Marines and redirected my school work to get a degree in Management with a minor in Finance. After that, I was hired as an Office Manager on a pipeline mainly because I spent Summers laboring and then operating. Trust me once you get into the PM role, field guys respect the managers that have been there and done that and know what they are going through every day. These days the kids that have PM aspirations are basically interns when they were in college. Very few PM’s in the pipeline construction field that come from college actually spent a ton of time working in the field which is kinda sad and once they graduate, we generally put them right back in the field as what we call Field Engineers or Field Clerks to help the PM over a project do their grunt work. Some might get a little bit more responsibility than just a regular intern by letting them start dabbling in estimating, costing, scheduling, etc…but we aren’t asking a ton out of them till they prove themselves. The ones that are good are the ones that fall under a good PM or a Supt that is willing to take them under their wing so to speak and really teach them. That development will usually put a CE making PM in 5-7 years post graduation.

We get a handful of engineers that for whatever reason decide they want to jump to our side of the fence and do construction but for the most part that is rare. The engineers usually go to work for the gas company or the engineering/design companies or in other words, the client.

1000% agree that doing deads with the hex bar is much more forgiving on your back than doing them with a barbell and you are still getting the same benefits. Not saying barbell deads are bad at all. If you can maintain strict form they are awesome, but as you get older, that margin of error for injury gets smaller. Honestly I wouldn’t consider a barbell deadlift program unless I was a powerlifter.

You need to train shoulders more once you get healed up.

Second Capt. Jason, I went with him several times on the Backlash and his newer boat. I think it’s named the Finest Kind. Great dude that knows that part of the Gulf better than anyone I know. I honestly try to go to Destin only when AJ’s are in season because he has some unreal spots for those donkeys.