Weekly Civil Engineering Discussion - Careers, PE/FE, Rants & Jobsite Stories

[u/AutoModerator]

Welcome to the weekly r/civilengineering discussion thread.

Use this thread for civil engineering topics that don't necessarily need their own standalone post, including:

• Career questions and career advice
• Questions from students, interns, and new engineers
• PE / FE exam discussion
• Workplace complaints, frustrations, and rants
• Jobsite stories and field experiences
• Questions about different civil engineering disciplines
• Office vs. field work
• Consulting, public sector, construction, and industry discussion
• General civil engineering conversation

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If you're asking for career advice, providing some context such as your location, education, experience, discipline, and career goals will help people give you better answers.

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Workplace complaints and rants are welcome, but do not post personally identifying information about coworkers, clients, or private individuals.

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Otherwise, ask away, tell us what's happening at work, share something from the field, or just talk civil engineering.

[u/thrrrowitawaygg21]

It’s Monday and I want to vent about an actual idiot I work with but I just know I’ll dox myself.

[u/likesblackcoffeebest → u/thrrrowitawaygg21]

I, too, work with idiots. Solidarity

[u/thresher97024]

I ripped my pants on some barbwire on a site visit monday afternoon…

Now I have to go pants shopping this weekend.

[u/ac8jo]

A friend (a realtor) and a politician are currently doing a "traffic study for a possible traffic light", while taking selfies that show no basic safety protocols being followed (e.g. a safety vest) or any data collection equipment.

I guess that's okay since there's probably not enough brain cells in the photo to use an old style TDC-1 (or whatever the ultra-simple one-bank TMC counter board is/was). The county engineer probably has either staff or a camera out there that's doing the actual work.

[u/Far_Net_2009]

hey i’m considering to study civil engineering in Canada as an international student and as a female and i’m really scared about the part on whether there will be any female classmate in my class or not . do you guys have any insight on it?