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Your videos are very well structured and researched, they make me think and i agree with alibskrdyyawr that youre doing a great job, thanks for the commentary

14:18 That happened to me 😅 I felt so much doubt in myself afterwards

7:15 I left corporate to work for myself again… It’s exciting and I thought I was super clear, but now in week 3, I’m all over the place.

No one comment on your video,you are doing best job,keep the good work going,soon alot of other will also comments on your videos as well,don't give up.

I'm a civil AutoCAD operator/designer and I see that many civil engineers want to do CAD. I think many civil engineers were actually thinking of CAD when they got into civil engineering. The truth is many of them don't ever touch civil 3D.

I am very happy I found your videos. I am working as a civil “engineer” (i have not passed any licenses 😢) but I have been working for 6 years on major projects private and public. And the same like you I am not enjoying it for the same reasons 😭

Most careers last approx. 4 decades. Know what you like; what you're good at and what is your value proposition. Great organizations/companies have good people, good culture and great leadership. Perhaps you might not have left civil engineering if you'd worked in a better environment. Best of luck in your new endeavors!

Merci again for this video !

nice chonky mic you're holding there...

Amen !

Thank you so much for this video, it's great to hear the same feelings and thoughts that I've had for many years. I come from Eastern Europe where as girls in school we were also thought to choose a career that was stable and provided a good income, also there was a push towards STEM careers. I have also moved countries within Europe, it is the same in all 3 where I have worked. I have also been in planning for a decade now, had a huge burnout, actually 2, but the first one I was not self aware to identify at the time. Now with the 2nd my body has shut down, I had to take it slower. And although I've been thinking about leaving the profession for many years now, I was staying because there's a certain prestige and it was super hard to get a degree here. As you said, the first few years are clearer, you have a path ahead of you, you see yourself develop and there is feedback. But all in all it is so true that this job lacks creativity. I think it is a great job for someone who wants the same days over and over and stability. I realised that I am not that kind of person and that I often need change and new influences. I have ADHD as it turns out, which has helped me to be a planner and see the bigger picture, see some connections that my colleagues couldn't, but I'm terrible at the bureaucratic and paperwork side. So I totally feel what you said about prospects: I have no desire to go down the management route and I also dread being the expert as it is always the same. I'm getting back to what I wanted to be as a child - a creative person, maybe in interior design, and can't wait to make the change. Good luck to everyone who has woken up, we are the ones who can take action in our own lives!

That's right. Civil Engineers are usually thieves. Go with the creative design work instead.

Stop paddling upstream and go over the waterfall.

You uptalk like a valley chick. Just listen to yourself

Career?. Its a JOB

Pay is terrible

I totally agree. Yesterday i decided that after finishing my MBA I will be returning for a history degree. Not for any immediate career change but one in the future when i am nearing retirement and will spend my time writing and teaching history. The goals may change form but they do not have to die.

Great video!! What did you end up doing? I related to everything you spoke to. Still trying to find my way in this world.

Look, I'm sorry about your experience but for me, engineering is the best job in the world. Now that I'm retired I don't regret the choice I made at all, far from it. I started in 1985, hired by a medium-small sized construction company, where they made me do everything, absolutely everything, except carrying out administrative tasks. For eight years it was the source of my practical training, where I cut my teeth learning how to actually build and what practical problems are encountered on construction sites. When all companies in general, due to contingent difficulties, "outsourced" my activity, I set up my own business as a freelancer and with the help of a younger colleague and a good designer I continued in the niche sector in which I had trained, that is, assistance on construction sites, especially in the production of "constructive" design which is an essential asset for serious companies. To clarify: an "executive" project, carried out by a client, must be sufficiently detailed to be able to produce a reliable metric calculation and an amount of work that can be sent to tender; the "constructive" project constitutes the next phase, where the work is represented taking into account the actual specifications of the builder and his capabilities, his means, the necessary temporary works, the specifications of the pre-packaged commercial products, the workshop details where pre-processed materials, the real characteristics of the places and transport logistics, etc. will be produced. Thus, having to deal with companies that worked in all sectors of civil engineering, I found myself producing, calculating and designing, construction, structural, road, railway, maritime, hydraulic, geotechnical and environmental works. When would I ever have been able to work in so many sectors, always listening and taking advantage of the precious suggestions of the elderly and expert site managers, from whom I learned how in other past cases it had been possible to solve a particular problem and putting everything in my pocket? . When I started suggesting solutions, I realized that I had only then become a senior engineer. In short, in hindsight I must say that I enjoyed working, without ever noticing the enormous amount of hours worked and the fact that all in all I didn't earn as much as I should have. But that's okay, it was worth it.

You didn't stop being a nerd.

been in Civ Egr. 20 years and only ever asked about my career plan in interviews, after that, the subject was dropped

Civil engineers are ENGINEERS 🤔

Investing aggressively is the solution to risk of being a corporate cog in someone else's wheel. The best thing money can buy is financial freedom

The realities of positive affirmation in STEM completely led you down the wrong path for a happy and fulfilled future. The grind stone wasn't for you, working is not school with endless learning experiences and fairy tales, it's adulting which isnt for everyone. Welcome to a man's world, we have little to no choice. Blame positive affirmation, a more suitable person missed out on this opportunity and so ultimately did society.

I obtained a civil engineering degree and shortly after aborted going down that path. This was probably a terrible career decision. However, I was unhappy in general with society (to state jejunely), and I have a creative side as much as an analytical side. I went into nonprofit work and it made my life meaningful. I would say that a person in such position needs to think whether money to buy comfortable house and finance a family on a daily structured office job will make them happier than some type of greater internal life fulfillment with reduced capacity of income.

I didnt have a plan to pivot my career but this has helped me reflecting so much! Keep up this great work 🎉

I took me 4 years to change from Emergency Medicine to Family Medicine. As a doctor, there's no freedom (limited by licensing and language). Even moving from Emergency, training starts ALL over again; plus having to wait for a spot. Then trying to convince interviewers that you can do Family Medicine as an Emergency Medicine. Tons of failures. You have more freedom in your field, so you're lucky.

I have had a somewhat similar, but different character arc with my engineering career. I did a few years in the military first and got my GI Bill, then did ME and got my dream job in aerospace right out the gate. It was good for a while, but over time I didn't understand why I still felt unsatisfied. I tried a few different roles with the same company before deciding it was time to leave. I tried my hand at farming for a couple of years during the pandemic, but that ended for reasons beyond my control. I went back to aerospace again for the money and because I was good at it, and I thought that I could deal with it better if I lowered my expectations a bit. A year later I decided that I was done with aerospace again, right before that door plug fell off... I applied to Civil Engineering jobs but didn't have the right qualifications. In the end I have settled on being self-employed, doing odd jobs as a handyman and freelance automotive mechanic work. I am barely scraping by, and I definitely miss the loss of income from my engineering jobs, but I am also happier and more at peace than I have ever been. I don't know what the future holds, but I am content with my present situation, and that is something more than I have ever been able to claim up to this point.

"Polite veneer"

Such an essential video. Thanks for sharing.

I left my engineering manager roll in 2016 after 13 years at the peak of my career. No fire drive and passion. I was only working for the paycheck. It wasn't worth it to me. Eventually I chased my passion and found so much internal reward doing so.

I think a big problem is schools pushing this pie in the sky dream, that you get paid well, but spend years working towards only to find out you don't even want to do

I would suggest you describe the alternative job that you are doing that allows you to make the same money as you did as an engineer.

I have narcolepsy 🧍🏻‍♀️

Do I feel intrinsically motivated? Hmm well since I'm watching this during work hours I would say no. 😂

So many tips here would have been great for me when I was younger. I'm middle aged now and have learned a lot of the ideas you discuss over the years. Using many of these tips, I'm on track for two of my three goals this year (one was too vague). My two remaining goals are challenging but I'm on pace. This is very sound advice and you're an excellent speaker and I admire your guts and tenacity to strike out on your TH-cam quest and your quest to run your own life and not work for others.

You should also point out that a woman engineer sacrifices her best years for starting a family for this career.

I am a commercial HVAC trades guy, with some college. Yet, I was put into the engineering aspect of my previous company. Mostly, temperature controls, project coordination with other trades, cad drawings, dumb meetings and arguing with "real" HVAC engineers. I would watch these "engineers" and how miserable their life where. Heavy responsibility,( even without a PE) and just endless soul sucking. Sales engineers are absolutely the bottom. Since I still physically worked too, I had the joy of "engineering" my systems, then deploying them. There is something satisfying seeing your creation come to fruition. You get to add your own spin to things, and experiment with the best way, not some cut and paste from 1000 previous jobs. I think that's the part that real engineers don't get ever get.

❤😂😂this is cutsie perspective of a white woman from Canada...though relevant and valid.😂.bbut so different from woman in Asia...I suffered from sexism in hiring and supervising male workers... civil engineering early career to us is out there in the field with scorching heat from 7 to 6pm 😂😂

this feels incredibly out of touch tbh

Many successful people inluding engineers in private and specially government have oversized undeserving ego is how they keep going. Narcist borderline psychopaths

The problem with engineering is there is just too many engineers. It all come down to supply and demand, if there is too many of a thing, then it become cheap. If there is half the engineers there is, all company will treat engineers a lot better.

I’ve been living in flow recently and then started to fall off in terms of motivation but as always the universe guides you to what you need, and this is exactly what I needed this morning. Thank you for sharing! I started running every morning too and have been using public transport rather than my car (out of necessity since I sold my car) and it’s definitely not as efficient but the time spent in getting to places while reading a book, or people watching has definitely increased the quality of my life! Thank you so much for sharing these values and life lessons, truly appreciate you for putting out this content :)

Maybe I've drank too much of the cool aid, but I've always felt a certain motivation from the goal/product I'm building. I like to think that my work (CAD, construction and manufacturing software) gives a net positive to society, and I'd imagine a civil engineer literally building the infrastructure that drives the world would feel something similar.

This was the perfect video to watch on a slow and rainy day. I didn't realise how much I have been craving this gentle guidance, thank you!

I have retired after 44 years as an engineer. I tried the high pay corporate world twice and decided it wasn't engineering. I was always happy in the small company world and it was worth the smaller salary less benefits to trade for the environment. I was able to add some art to my designs and exercise my creativity best in this world and it was very satisfying. You just need to look for the right job at the interview, they are out there.

Too real. Popping caffeine pills as I add this to the watch later playlist

What kind of engineer? Why do younhidevthat?

are you INFP? I got similar feelings lately.