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A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer? (1 Viewer)

super.muppy

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can someone please describe a day in a life of a civil engineer.

is it really boring???
 

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Maybe something along these lines...

office->meeting->visit construction sites->paper work

*shrugs*
 

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can someone please describe a day in a life of a civil engineer.

is it really boring???

0840 arrive, start working
1320-1330 lunch / fresh air
1815 go home

What 'working' entails is role-specific and not at all boring if you like what you're doing. Generally doing something different every day at least, typically working on 2-3 projects at once, typically 50/40/10 technical / writing / client stuff. This is my day at a private consultancy btw.

Council/RTA/Railcorp would look more like this:

0910 arrive
0930 start work
1200-1315 lunch
1655 go home

60/20/20 technical / red tape / paper airplanes.


When i worked in construction eng it was more like:

0630 arrive
0700 start not working
1200-1300 a certain part of not working where you eat food
1600 finish not working

with a mix of 70/20/10 not working / marveling at the stupidity of construction workers / playing in the mud
 

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0840 arrive, start working
1320-1330 lunch / fresh air
1815 go home

What 'working' entails is role-specific and not at all boring if you like what you're doing. Generally doing something different every day at least, typically working on 2-3 projects at once, typically 50/40/10 technical / writing / client stuff. This is my day at a private consultancy btw.

Council/RTA/Railcorp would look more like this:

0910 arrive
0930 start work
1200-1315 lunch
1655 go home

60/20/20 technical / red tape / paper airplanes.


When i worked in construction eng it was more like:

0630 arrive
0700 start not working
1200-1300 a certain part of not working where you eat food
1600 finish not working

with a mix of 70/20/10 not working / marveling at the stupidity of construction workers / playing in the mud
Boofhead!
 

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0840 arrive, start working
1320-1330 lunch / fresh air
1815 go home

What 'working' entails is role-specific and not at all boring if you like what you're doing. Generally doing something different every day at least, typically working on 2-3 projects at once, typically 50/40/10 technical / writing / client stuff. This is my day at a private consultancy btw.



When i worked in construction eng it was more like:
Council/RTA/Railcorp would look more like this:

0910 arrive
0930 start work
1200-1315 lunch
1655 go home

60/20/20 technical / red tape / paper airplanes.
0630 arrive
0700 start not working
1200-1300 a certain part of not working where you eat food
1600 finish not working

with a mix of 70/20/10 not working / marveling at the stupidity of construction workers / playing in the mud
Council/RTA/Railcorp would look more like this:


More like
0810 arrive
0900 start work
1200-1245 lunch
1730 go home

60/20/20 technical/red tape political gay shit/bored of studies(or talking shit at unapproved smokos, whichever you prefer).
 

pottsy44

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0840 arrive, start working
1320-1330 lunch / fresh air
1815 go home

What 'working' entails is role-specific and not at all boring if you like what you're doing. Generally doing something different every day at least, typically working on 2-3 projects at once, typically 50/40/10 technical / writing / client stuff. This is my day at a private consultancy btw.

Council/RTA/Railcorp would look more like this:

0910 arrive
0930 start work
1200-1315 lunch
1655 go home

60/20/20 technical / red tape / paper airplanes.


When i worked in construction eng it was more like:

0630 arrive
0700 start not working
1200-1300 a certain part of not working where you eat food
1600 finish not working

with a mix of 70/20/10 not working / marveling at the stupidity of construction workers / playing in the mud
wow i cannot believe how accurate you got all of those haha. ive worked (and worked around) all those jobs haaha
 

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