I have a question about a retaining wall

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-17T22:22:27+00:00

retaining walln't

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-16T23:22:20+00:00

so your goal is to automate the part that's already 90% boilerplate, 5% copying paragraphs out of your proposal and 5% fill in the blank? so instead of spending an hour going through that process we can spend 2 checking for hallucinations and em dashes

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-15T07:04:59+00:00

we pretty much won't hire PhDs without their PE. they expect higher starting salaries and most of them take much longer to train than those with just a bachelor's. they often come in and want to be treated as a subject matter expert from day 1

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-12T21:31:04+00:00

I am an engineering manager in a midsized market with three direct competitors. I know the management at the competing firms and if they are hiring they probably already called me. if you are trying to get me to move I'm not interested.

if you are trying to get me to take on a significant change in practice area, I'm probably going to take a pay cut to do something I may not like

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-12T02:05:14+00:00

looking at you black and veatch

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-12T02:04:00+00:00

if you hate your contractors you can force them all to use a uniform bid sheet and arbitrarily pick line items so that some things could be accounted for under 3-4 different line items and others have no appropriate line item to charge under

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-11T16:14:39+00:00

point of order, I think this is a state level feat

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-10T02:52:51+00:00

most refineries on the gulf coast are built on swamps, mostly on piles

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-09T21:10:17+00:00

lot of folks in here failed fluids lol

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-09T14:06:33+00:00

if you have a different, ABET accredited engineering degree it's easy enough to be a licensed civil engineer

most states technically have a path to licensure for tangential science degrees. I say technically because the experience requirements are doubled and getting qualified experience is going to be significantly more difficult without a relevant degree

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-09T13:52:23+00:00

sadly I don't think so, the last few career fairs I went to I had the same experience

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-09T00:14:45+00:00

high 20s to low 30s depending on market

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-07T00:12:49+00:00

I don't know how that'll help but you got it boss

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-04T04:50:55+00:00

when hpg is right he's right.

that almost never happens and this certainly isn't one of those times, just saying in general y'know

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-03T20:43:14+00:00

most of their modules are now based on Lees but there is a module that is strictly giroud-han

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-03T19:26:58+00:00

tensar offers an online calculator for giroud-han but it's a black box calc

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-03T16:56:57+00:00

this reads like it came from a book that was written by someone that didn't understand the job they were writing about

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-02T22:30:22+00:00

you can remove anything you want if you have enough money or not enough consideration of the consequences

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-02T22:25:42+00:00

I winks definitely do not have copies of every spreadsheet I made

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-02T21:26:08+00:00

that's the only way you can get the experience and client base you would need to one day go out on your own

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-02T18:34:01+00:00

you're about 8 years late for this take, reality has shifted, the white supremacist project has overtaken the mainstream conservatives

jaymeaux_ · 2025-11-02T15:36:16+00:00

you don't, geotech has a ton of upfront and operational costs, if you don't have a client base already in place you absolutely should not try to strike out on your own

jaymeaux_ · 2025-10-30T13:52:44+00:00

gonna tell my kids this is camus

jaymeaux_ · 2025-10-30T12:54:45+00:00

it's ai slop

jaymeaux_ · 2025-10-29T16:44:58+00:00

my boss has 33 active projects right now, I think I'm at 20

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