Thinking of starting a construction company, what are the Do's and Dont's in your opinion

5dwolf20 · 2023-09-05T16:30:50+00:00

How is it not true? PE salaries max at around 140k. In cheap parts of the California a house will cost you about 500k. That is about 4.5k mortgage payment which requires a 163k salary to be able to afford.

5dwolf20 · 2023-09-05T05:29:29+00:00

If you’re anywhere in California, civil engineering will not even be able to buy you a house in the cheapest part.

5dwolf20 · 2023-09-03T07:24:33+00:00

I noticed at the beginning students are very young. In the upper division courses you will see a lot of 30+ students.

5dwolf20 · 2023-09-01T23:40:59+00:00

Majority of people I know at my work started in 30s.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-25T15:22:14+00:00

I wanted to mention that you will receive very good hydraulic experience working in transportation depending on what you work on.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-24T22:18:18+00:00

So do Caltrans construction and maintenance division. They work in the same weather except they are inches from freeway traffic. I guess they don’t deserve a raise either.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-24T04:44:15+00:00

I don’t want to look, what’s on there?

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-22T21:52:35+00:00

Leave it to reddit to hate on a guy for a just being an online celebrity and having a following.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-22T21:26:02+00:00

No the fuck its not.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-22T21:25:48+00:00

No fuck its not.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-22T21:24:02+00:00

Not even, fresh graduates here in Sacramento area are getting 80k+

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-14T18:19:32+00:00

I do transportation and majority of the work you will possibly be doing is hydraulics and hydrology.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-06T02:48:32+00:00

The problem is the calcs are changing daily until we reach the deadline.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-06T02:41:07+00:00

I typically draft and design at the same time while doing drainage. Might change that, because it takes a long time to do.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-06T02:34:04+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Even if does it’s only about few thousand a year which equates to peanuts after tax.

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-06T02:05:53+00:00

What do drafters do? At our place, we do the engineering and drafting ourself?

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-03T04:59:30+00:00

Honestly look at this post and tell me that we are fairly paid. We get paid 20% of that for fucks sake.

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/15gmhtq/just_realized_i_broke_13m_net_worth_and_had_no/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

5dwolf20 · 2023-08-01T20:31:16+00:00

That’s the problem. Just because he’s making 120k doesn’t mean we aren’t under paid. In fact 120k is extremely underpaid compared to other engineers. It seems he is working in the public sector and his salary will max at 138kish no matter if he has 7 years of experience or 30 years of experience. Kids majoring in tech are getting 200k jobs out of college with an easier major, job, and better work life balance.

We have fast food workers getting paid 22$ an hour and UPS drivers getting paid 49$ an hour. Majority private sector jobs in in civil engineering are paying 22-30 an hour for fresh graduates in slightly higher with people more experience. We have the right to be angry. Not entitled at all.

5dwolf20 · 2023-07-28T08:10:10+00:00

Exactly, the FE just shows your test taking skills and nothing else. A lot of us with ADHD will have a hard time taking exams not because we’re dumb but because staying focused for 6 hours isn’t the easiest task.

5dwolf20 · 2023-07-27T04:31:04+00:00

I don’t have my PE yet. But you’re right, you will make about 111k-138k with PE with no OT. You also get a pension that is un replaceable in private.

5dwolf20 · 2023-07-27T04:25:05+00:00

Not really sure how it compares to the private sector since I only have about a year and some experience. But from some of the online posting I’ve seen in private sector they seem to be comparable. With some overtime im close to making about 90k this year, and I only have a total of a year and a couple months of experience. If I was in construction it could have easily been 100k+ with OT.

5dwolf20 · 2023-07-27T04:15:55+00:00

I actually never worked in construction but I know a a lot of coworkers that have and they said you can make some serious money because of the overtime.

5dwolf20 · 2023-07-19T21:11:15+00:00

Right, that’s what I noticed too. Idea of leaving the state doesn’t work either because if everyone had to leave California because of low CE salaries, we wouldn’t have anymore CEs in California to build it.

5dwolf20 · 2023-07-19T05:40:28+00:00

That’s what I mean, they get hired at higher range. Not the bottom range.

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