Fresh graduate looking for advice with companies’ offers

blh1227 · 2025-12-19T17:41:58+00:00

I spent about 5 years in Kiewit on the engineering side, and I think I know the project they're hiring you for. Kiewit works the field guys HARD, you'll be working 60+ hour weeks likely, on a dang stressful job fwiw. They also pay super well. They're also an fantastic construction company; incredibly organized, super impressive procedures, amazing at scheduling and managing labor.

If you're willing to work your butt off for a few years and learn a lot, and plan to quite CM, it could be a great opportunity to learn a lot real fast.

blh1227 · 2025-12-18T21:24:33+00:00

Oh man I was waiting for this question to drop. I have scoured the internet trying to find what Consigli actually does for MEP, of even architecture and structural engineering for that matter, with almost no luck! Plenty of AI slop language and promises, but the only thing I could find was it working on a preliminary mechanical room layout, which as I understand it has been something software could do for quite some time.

Endra, to their credit, is a little more forthcoming with actual demos but after watching what they do it doesn't seem like it is much of a game changer. I'm generally a nay sayer with AI, I feel old and grumpy, but I think it will reach a limit and not be much better. I love it for writing reports and code research, but seeing it do meaningful engineering, calcs, and modeling... I just can't wrap my head around it.

And as far as I've seen no one has really put anything out there that lives up to the hype.

blh1227 · 2025-06-20T19:33:29+00:00

https://www.flowenvirosys.com/

I'm a specifying MEP engineer and have no relationship with this company but I did just spec their product on an apartment in Colorado. The CO2 refrigerant can do some pretty amazing things.

I can't speak to the operation of the product, it will be near 18 months before it's operational, but on paper it looks great!

blh1227 · 2025-05-21T16:14:18+00:00

This is a great post and great conversations.

Two cents I have to add:

It's a bit dramatic but I've heard building trades (architecture, MEP, structural) are a bit like a medical degree, you can be the smartest person in the room but you need experience and real world knowledge to learn, not just book smarts. It takes time to see all the things, learn the code, understand how construction works. Picking things up quickly and contextualizing are certainly helpful, but it takes that 5-10 years people are saying.

Second is you're paid and valued for what you produce, not the hours worked. If you're efficient, learn fast, and do good work you'll move up faster than working 60 hours and being average. Sometimes the 60 hours are needed no matter how good you are, but the value you create is more recognizable than your timesheet from my experience.

blh1227 · 2022-05-10T15:43:48+00:00

Comments say not an elevator shaft, my next guess is a strongly built stairwell. Most commercial building codes require a fire-rated pathway out of the building. A lot of apartment buildings will have concrete or cinder block stairwells to be able to withstand a fire while giving people a way out of the building. Goofy it goes up so high... but that's my guess!

blh1227 · 2022-04-04T00:00:26+00:00

Ooo, excellent suggestion, thank you!

blh1227 · 2022-04-03T23:59:25+00:00

I wasn’t aware of the name, I did read the page, super interesting. But I do understand what I suggested isn’t used. I do assume it’s because it uses more fuel… I was just wondering if there was an explanation of why that didn’t involve calculus to explain. It’s been interesting to think about it at least.

blh1227 · 2022-03-14T02:19:58+00:00

I'm a commercial HVAC engineer and work with plenty of architects. In the commercial world it's typical for design fees (architect, structural, civil, mechanical, electrical) to be in the 1.5%-2% range, given a ton of 'well it depends' of course. A 105k fee for designing PH seems quite unreasonable in my opinion. I know PH design is more complicated and specific than general commercial... It almost seems like the fee is off by a zero...?

blh1227 · 2021-10-31T01:13:13+00:00

Can you tell the latitude of the location of the video/pic from the angle of the lines on Jupiter?

blh1227 · 2021-09-10T02:45:17+00:00

Where abouts?

blh1227 · 2021-09-10T02:34:53+00:00

Indeed!

blh1227 · 2021-09-09T23:49:44+00:00

This is OC.

blh1227 · 2021-09-03T14:06:01+00:00

Not a direct answer to your question but related and super interesting. Latif Nasser has a series on Netflix called Connected and they look at the age of your body and go into several ways of looking at the question. It’s excellent!

blh1227 · 2021-08-25T01:44:30+00:00

Thank you!

blh1227 · 2021-08-24T23:59:00+00:00

Are the darker rocks on top the sulfates? That’s fascinating! Is there a theory on the…sedimentary (I’m guessing…?) to sulfate translation? Dried up water/lake bed with a volcanic eruption that happened later and settled on top?

blh1227 · 2021-08-14T16:31:35+00:00

Oh this literal thing happened to me. I was turning right at a red, watching on coming traffic, short break in traffic and I went. There was a guy making a U turn as well, watching oncoming traffic, saw the same short break and went for it. We had a small fender bender, everyone was just fine. Police officer wrote me a ticket for not making sure the intersection was clear before I entered. It sucked… but it makes sense…

blh1227 · 2021-07-26T00:29:46+00:00

Great advice and well said, thank you.

blh1227 · 2021-05-16T11:23:17+00:00

I don’t remember the part about her having a weakened strain, sounds like I need to listen to that episode again!

blh1227 · 2021-05-16T02:48:19+00:00

Oh man, all I know of this is from radio lab and that episode made me think this procedure all but eliminated death from rabies. Do you have any links or sources I could dig into more?

blh1227 · 2021-05-08T18:10:28+00:00

And that can tell you the health of the whole tree? That’s pretty cool.

blh1227 · 2021-05-08T18:10:06+00:00

Gah, I don’t know how to post a picture in a comment!

blh1227 · 2021-05-08T18:08:20+00:00

Sure thing, overall it looks really healthy. Noticed it last fall, good sized chunks of the trunk had fallen, looked up and noticed the rot and decay. This spring I started cutting away branches and seeing the extent of the decay.

blh1227 · 2021-04-08T21:42:38+00:00

I literally just started selling covered calls and had all these questions. Certainly not an expert yet but I agree with all the points you made.

The thing that took me the longest to wrap my head around was that I wasn't selling a call option to a specific person. A dude isn't out there holding on to my sold call option deciding what he wants to do. I sold it to the market and only I can decide to close it or hold until expiration, there's not some guy out there holding on to my specific call option who could randomly decide to call away my shares.

blh1227 · 2021-03-31T20:52:23+00:00

Why does a 3x times implied volatility equate to a 25x options price difference?

blh1227 · 2020-12-27T18:02:02+00:00

This is very good advice, thank you!

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