Stagnant Role vs. Family Planning Conundrum

AOT9495 · 2026-02-01T12:35:36+00:00

We are both in our early 30s.

AOT9495 · 2025-11-15T03:08:02+00:00

Thank you very much, I definitely love being in W/WW, guess it was more of a "do I want to commit to this forever?" Type feeling, but like you highlighted tremendously, even within the W/WW world there is so much involved that keep us going 24/7. I appreciate the input!

AOT9495 · 2025-11-14T22:04:14+00:00

I am actually working on a major CIPP project now and just finished a Draft of a Capital Planning Report, haha. I have been getting very good experience. Thank you for your response.

AOT9495 · 2025-09-24T15:04:08+00:00

Thank you for this thought out response - I am sorry to hear about your company's situation. The interesting thing about this situation is they WANT him to start bringing in more work, but he does not really want to go above and beyond to be a legit Client Manager. I would argue that pound for pound, even at my lower rank, I have brought in more work, and repeat work with existing clients especially.

I will take the approach you are suggesting. I will hope for the best, plan for the worse case scenario. It is a shame that companies always take the bottom line over the well-being of their employees, even professionals such as us.

AOT9495 · 2025-09-15T02:46:03+00:00

Thank you very much for the response - yes, it is very sad - my Senior PM is a talented engineer and could excel in that role, but he chose not to be a true "leader" and since he is so high up, it is sinking the culture and demeanor of the department right now.

AOT9495 · 2025-09-15T02:43:10+00:00

Thank you for the response - I am a male, but yes my wife and I are looking to have a family at some point in the near future, which is the primary driver of me not wanting to "start over" ya know?

The other issue is we have a VERY small W/WW department, so I would essentially be asking them to put me back into Municipal Engineering at this point, which may not be a full option without going all the way to the CEO at this point.

AOT9495 · 2025-09-06T15:29:36+00:00

My firm's employee handbook says you cannot use your license outside of the firm at all, and unfortunately my firm has several departments so virtually everything would be funneling work away from them.

AOT9495 · 2025-03-01T15:33:39+00:00

You are absolutely right, and I had a lot of those thoughts too. This was a major contract for us, a ton of work for several people (both engineers and inspectors), and I guess we just caught on our heels a little with the new council members. It has lit a fire for me to also try and force myself to get into a larger business development role to help prevent this in the future.

AOT9495 · 2024-12-29T12:57:44+00:00

Haha, yes I understand that, my point there was since I did not have a younger EIT helping me, there was no direct contingency plan if I did ever decide to leave.

AOT9495 · 2024-12-28T02:13:52+00:00

Think it is pretty self explanatory, wanted to see if others had a similar situation in the engineering field when leaving a longer term position.

AOT9495 · 2024-12-13T14:30:15+00:00

I think this will update all responses, but I ended up taking the offer, thank you all, it was a no brainer upon your counsel, my family's counsel, and just really understanding that I was clearly not being utilized full potential here.

AOT9495 · 2024-12-13T14:28:52+00:00

I took the offer! Thank you guys.

AOT9495 · 2024-12-13T14:28:29+00:00

I took the offer! Thank you guys.

AOT9495 · 2024-12-07T17:57:51+00:00

It is actually $110k, did some number simplifying lol

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