It is time for young students to choose degree and university and many of them avoid engineering courses due to misconceptions about the profession. Not all the engineers work under the sun or in greasy factories. As a matter of fact, many engineers spend their time in air-conditioned offices doing analysis and design. In some cases involving planning and management, engineers usually stay indoor nearly all the time. Of course, there are some civil engineers at the site, but nowadays a lot of us are employed by consulting companies, by the government and in a wide variety of industries, or maybe self-employed.
France is a very rare case because 70% of the civil engineers work for the administration.
Do all engineers work under the hot sun?
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Some Civil Engineers even work in Banks! :)
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you again!
Welcome back imp! Difficult week for the stock market and the financial field, isn't it? In fact, the Ibex was below the 14000 yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI have heard something but, in spite of what many people think, these movements of the market do not affect my job too much.
ReplyDeleteMore than outdoors working, they should be afraid of boses and never get complete released of job during professional life. This is the real "hot sun" in engineering career, as I saw it fron my craddle (my father, just retired, is an engineer too).
ReplyDeleteEngineering jobs can be exhausting but it is our duty to encourage youngsters toward engineering, technology and applied science degrees instead of social studies, medicine, dentistry and such because the first ones create value-added products.
ReplyDeleteI think I never could be a dentist, an administrative or a TV showman. Things in my head work by a pattern that´s only useful in technical thinking. As I know that, when a neighbour or a relative tells me he want to begin an engineering carrer, but he/she is not sure to be able to 'survive', I allways try to encourage them telling them that, although it's no easy, if they like this "way of life" they will succeed soon or late.
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ReplyDeleteI guess your last comment is a joke, but I am not sure if everyone is going to perceive it as such.
Imp, if you like crap food, caffeine, cigarettes, long nights and you do not mind to make your client's fantansies into reality, pr.........n, sorry, engineering is the right career.
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