This article is for everybody who has ever thought about being an engineer. I will explain everything you need to know about this job and all the pros and cons about it. After your reading, you will know where engineers work, what is their salary, how long the studies are, the risk on the job and when you can retire at the end of your career.
Being a civil engineer means designing and building a vast amount of infrastructures such as roads, industrial buildings, skyscrapers, but also water systems and bridges. This requires technical skills, imagination and creativity, but it also means that you will work with a lot of people with different jobs.
Civil engineers plan, design, build and maintain infrastructures in cities. They also make sure that those structures are safe and also efficient. This requires a lot of calculation, surveying, and analyzing because what they are building is very complex.
The day usually starts with checking emails and projects updates. They then review the blue print and the models, and often go on the jib site to supervise the operation. In the afternoon, they, sometime, have meetings with constructors and clients to discuss technicalities of the project.
Civil engineers work both in their office and on the job site which can be a construction site, a skyscraper or any building.
The first step is to get a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in university. After graduating, you will need real life experience as an intern. After sometime, you can do the Professional engineer exam to become a licensed civil engineer.
The salary starts at around 70 000$, but more experienced engineers can have a salary of over 140 000$.
A civil engineer needs practical experienced and then pass the professional engineer exam.
Civil engineering is a pretty safe job even if it requires you to go on construction sites which can be dangerous because of heavy machinery. A civil engineering needs to follow the safety rules to stay safe.
It is very unlikely that civil engineering will be replaced by robots soon because it requires a lot of decision-making, creativity and problem-solving which are skills that computers struggle to copy.
Most civil engineers retire between 60 and 65 years old but some keep working after that as consultant or teacher.
In conclusion, I hope that this article will have helped you with any questions you might be asking yourself. I am pretty far from being a civil engineer yet because I am not in university yet, but I hope to be one in a near future.
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