For the most part even the drinking is eliminated in most project camps these days, too many "issues" would arise. That leaves you with working, eating and sleeping; definitely not the most exciting but after an 11 hour day and half hour bus rides on each side who has much energy left? The...
Mototank,
Where in the world are you interested in working? I'm guessing in the US but if Canadian by some chance I know that Alberta is pretty hard up for electrical engineers willing to put in field time. The EPC's are gearing up for another boom cycle (the bust here was relatively minor)...
Shimo first,
Don't worry about your eng. tech. position, it was understandable for the last while and cmpanies would approve of you having a job, let alone one still tied to engineering, that time is starting to pass though in Alberta at least.
If you haven't already join some clubs to...
For the blog I was wondering what other people's thoughts were. I didn't see it applying just to women either and thought of a couple different people I work with while reading... myself included on a point or two.
This topic comes up every now and then with my engineering friends (we work in oil & gas sector) and many of them are flat ou deniers that CO2 causes warming and it would be silly to try and reduce it. My problem with this is even if CO2 isn't the be all and end all of global warming, why would...
Jmoore,
Another option to look into is trying to get a position with one of the big EPC's. I'm pretty sure all of them have projects/offices over there (mining) and your previous experience may show well with them. Depending on what your plans are this may or may not be for you but if you did...
Another vote for following Ron's advice. Who knows what other details that your name is attached too they may have previously changed, you are legally and morally obligated to bring this up and put as much distance between the client, your current employer and yourself as possible.
If some...
I became an engineer for the fame, riches and women... apparently I was a misguided soul.
Actually the current of life just kind of lead me into it. I didn't know any engineers growing up (was a farm kid) but both my parents pushed education as being needed. Thought I'd get bored with any...
"So the meeting wasn't to discuss, understand and possibly solve problems, it was to announce pre-thought solutions." Aren't the vast majority of meetings to announe pre-thought solutions? I hate going into ones were I don't at least have an inkling of what I want the answers to be.
As for...
Gotta agree with Moltenmetal, conservation should be the focus and building codes should be updated to reflect this; we expect everything else to constantly increase but for what limited (almost nil) experience I have with building codes we still seem to building garbage houses.
As for the...
lacajun,
With regards to the Zombie Apocalypse emergency planning I have to disagree with you (at least how I read your post). That was probably the most effective emergency planning campaigns I've see/heard of out of any government group... just look at how much coverage it's received. The...
Currently working in the field at 77 hours a week,2 weeks on 1 week off with 45 minute commutes on each side of the work day. When I'm in the office it's 40 hours a week unless OT is dire and approved... OT doesn't count for an hour here or there to finish something that I want finished.
I...
Chronik,
If you haven't already read through ASME BTH-1 and your provincial OH&S code. For example Alberta requires a 5:1 design on ultimate breaking strength.
I agree with the steps you've taken, tell them who they can go to if they ask and otherwise leave it up to them, you already did your part trying to help them earlier. We're going through the same thing with our condo board after redoing the windows on our '85 townhouse. They had an...
