• PossiblyOptimist@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Simultaneously really bummed out about the terrible conditions people have/are going to have to live through and deeply grateful that I get to work on improving those shitty conditions

      • lemme_at_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Has there been an increase of jobs for civil engineers in recent years do you think? If so, what are the main drivers of such increases, IYO?

    • PossiblyOptimist@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lol nope. A lot of what I do is using computer programs to model soil conditions (dirt) so it’s more about understanding what soil is out there and how it acts when we build things on it/with it. The most I use is algebra

    • PossiblyOptimist@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s someone who designs infrastructure, so roads, buildings, bridges, sewer systems, etc. Basically if you think about anything a construction worker builds, a civil engineer/team of engineers designed it. There are different categories of civil engineers. Structural engineers make sure a building can handle the weight of everything on/in it. Transportation engineers design highways. I’m a geotechnical engineer, so I deal with soils (dirt) and make sure the ground can support whatever is being built.

      • Kresten@feddit.dkEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m soon going to study as a software engineer, but in my country that’s also called a “civil engineer”, is that true in English, as well?

            • lemme_at_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              11 months ago

              Only for some time. Job boards in their early days were simplistic in their capture of information, you either pasted or attached a cover letter & CV but they would quickly become much more granular in gathering a lot more information about your skills, even if this made the application process a lot longer than before. It had the benefit of your skillset defining your ability rather than the title of your degree obscuring it. Also, OCR & language translation advanced really quickly there after.