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Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Civil Engineer ()
Date: September 21, 2016 08:42AM

I've been in civil engineering for 20 years and I'm sick of it. Lots of work for very little pay. I feel like I should do something else but don't know what to do or how to go about

Any advice? I can always count on FFXU!

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Donkey Dong ()
Date: September 21, 2016 08:48AM

Pornstar

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: boss of bosses ()
Date: September 21, 2016 09:02AM

Civil Engineer Wrote:
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> I've been in civil engineering for 20 years and
> I'm sick of it. Lots of work for very little pay.
> I feel like I should do something else but don't
> know what to do or how to go about
>
> Any advice? I can always count on FFXU!


Join the mafia. If you can do the time, do the crime.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: I'm not a civil engineer ()
Date: September 21, 2016 09:21AM

I've been doing the same thing for 29 years now with little to show for it! I, too, am considering a career change. you would think with all of the wasted government spending around here it would be easy to find something else to do for a career. It takes a college degree and special certification, I guess!

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Different Path ()
Date: September 21, 2016 11:03AM

Freelance dick sucking?

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: huh...okay ()
Date: September 21, 2016 11:25AM

You might have been able to count on this site once upon a time...but it's been overrun by 12-year olds

Check out some career boards or think about contracting since you live in the DMV

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: WilliamRobert ()
Date: September 21, 2016 11:29AM

huh...okay Wrote:
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> You might have been able to count on this site
> once upon a time...but it's been overrun by
> 12-year olds
>
> Check out some career boards or think about
> contracting since you live in the DMV

He must be worse off than we thought if he is living in the department of motor vehicles office.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Ludwig ()
Date: September 21, 2016 01:19PM

If you have your PMP certification it should be easy to get onto a government contract.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: at the dmv? ()
Date: September 21, 2016 01:28PM

WilliamRobert Wrote:
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> huh...okay Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > You might have been able to count on this site
> > once upon a time...but it's been overrun by
> > 12-year olds
> >
> > Check out some career boards or think about
> > contracting since you live in the DMV
>
> He must be worse off than we thought if he is
> living in the department of motor vehicles office.

How is that even legal? Like just camp out there after the doors are locked? Usually there are at least a few guards around, there's no way they wouldn't suspect seeing the same person in there every single day. i'm surprised it wouldn't set off motion alarms at night or something, it sounds ridiculous.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: helppppppp ()
Date: September 21, 2016 02:17PM

Try reddit nova

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: seriously- ()
Date: September 21, 2016 02:23PM

teaching

Lots of work for very little pay.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Grease is the way ()
Date: September 21, 2016 02:31PM

Try Uber or Lyft

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Not in Good Hands ()
Date: September 21, 2016 02:39PM

I'm in the same boat. Been an insurance investigator for 25 years and just tried of the entire industry and the bullshit that goes with it.

I could easily become an agent and probably knock down $80k a year but the idea of being an agent makes me want to vomit.

I'm also considering the consultant route.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Soupy ()
Date: September 21, 2016 02:41PM

FCPS is looking for a new Superintendent.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Well... ()
Date: September 21, 2016 02:42PM

You're not giving us a lot to work with here. What do you enjoy doing?

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: September 21, 2016 02:45PM

I hate the DMV. Two and a half to three hours minimum wait. Sucks.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Nice Guy Eddie ()
Date: September 22, 2016 11:15AM

Jizz mopper.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: iLester. ()
Date: September 22, 2016 02:22PM

It depends on what you have saved up. Go into a government job and get another pension. Teach. Start a real estate appraisal business or something else related to real estate.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: 9x3ub ()
Date: September 22, 2016 08:31PM

If you have a civil engineering background and did some mapping, you could try seeing if you could work yourself into a geospatial analyst job. The only thing with those jobs is most want you to deploy 3 or more months a rotation if it is in the mil/intel side of the Gov't.

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Re: Middle Age Career Switch
Posted by: Walter White ()
Date: September 22, 2016 10:42PM

Make a fortune.
Cook meth.

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