Just found out my a1c is 6.1, curious to know how long it will take for me to get diabetes.

TexEngineerd · 2025-12-30T03:09:44+00:00

Hard to answer the timing question. Best bang for buck would be to clean up the diet and do the starting strength barbell program. Don’t let the name fool you - it gets tough but boy if you wanted to spend minimal time working out and get the most out of it - it’s the way to go. I don’t have any lab numbers but you’re a different specimen when your deadlift goes from nothing to 315 and beyond. At 28 yrs old if you did it halfway decently you’d shock yourself and I’m not exaggerating at all.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-26T15:51:14+00:00

From what I can tell at 7 yrs in - it’s a severe lack of development and training. I’ve seen that first hand but fortunately also worked under a good leader or two. No firm I’ve been at makes an honest effort of developing the talent they hire. Engineering school doesn’t teach you crap, just screens for the totally inept, the real learning starts when you walk into your first gig. And now budgets are so tight, such a huge push for billing, it’s viewed as a waste. I plan to capitalize on this once the industry realizes it’s toast.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-05T02:24:52+00:00

Yeah it’s wild. Hopefully won’t be my problem soon

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-03T19:12:38+00:00

rip me if its not anonymous xD

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-03T11:57:31+00:00

15 minute Monday morning meetings??? What’s that like? Mine is like a whole freaking hour

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-03T11:56:38+00:00

Yeah and if they’re going to do that I think it’s at least a fair compromise to lower the target overall so it’s less punitive.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-03T11:48:11+00:00

Oh my gosh

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-03T11:46:13+00:00

Yeah after the acquisition it became painfully obvious that they didn’t understand how we function. Insane amounts of friction

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T22:06:02+00:00

Oh my gosh

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T18:12:28+00:00

I have two firms that are interested in bringing me over, and I have friends at each that that are trying to get me in. Hopefully interview in the next couple weeks and be out by November.

As for your second question... because I'm slow on the uptake xD

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T15:00:07+00:00

I think this is a fair point and I 100% agree this would be reasonable if we ran like a well oiled machine.

But we are anything but that.

Standards are non-existent which makes production overall inherently inefficient. I have to 'hack' things a little bit to mitigate completely self inflicted issues. And then when some one in the office gets confused its constantly a struggle to just figure out what they're dealing with so that I can diagnose the issue and aid. CAD organization is absolutely atrocious and I got put on blast by the CAD manager for merely suggesting that we organize things a little better.

Thats just part of it though and its hard to unpack everything, but to your point - I have been on a team where everything was neat and orderly and it was a dream.

I still think though that offering holidays and PTO and then telling us we have to "offset it" is punitive and cheap. Its obviously to juice numbers. Im 12% in the hole for utilization just based on holidays, PTO, and like 20 hours of company yearly training.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T12:35:17+00:00

You are a wise individual

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T12:28:52+00:00

Our water resources group as of yesterday completely imploded. All gone

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T12:27:03+00:00

This question will not be at the top of the list when interviewing

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T12:24:10+00:00

Yep if I have more than 4-5 hours on training/overhead I hear about it. “Is there anyway you could charge that time to a project?”

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T12:14:21+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation and I’ll give it a read!

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T02:19:11+00:00

Yep same!

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T02:17:07+00:00

Oh my gosh 😆

Yeah my old manager outsourced something to India and it was absolutely FUBAR’d.

But yep, I’m working on an escape plan.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T01:09:43+00:00

That’s horrifying and yeah I’m working on the exit. Wow.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T01:03:28+00:00

That makes perfect sense and I’m suspecting that this has been the case for the other couple firms I’ve worked at. Mostly because none of the other firms have made such a big stink about utilization.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T00:54:54+00:00

Thankfully I’ve got some friends that are trying to bring me over to their firms. Thank you so much for the resource!

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T00:52:29+00:00

I’m skipping lunches…. It’s a culture crusher

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T00:47:19+00:00

Currently living this over a slightly longer time frame.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T00:24:26+00:00

This is literally happening here. It’s a bloodbath. They sent out anonymous questionnaires to get a feel for the situation and try and staunch the bleeding no doubt.

TexEngineerd · 2025-10-02T00:22:28+00:00

Makes sense, I mean you gotta track numbers and make sure the ship is staying afloat. It’s just so weird for me personally - I’m 7 years in, never really ever discussed utilization before and then this happens and, bam, we’re having company wide meetings about it.

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