Why a CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CAREER Makes You MORE MONEY!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- Trying to decide between a construction engineering or construction management career or a civil engineering design career? Now, I never advocate to make decisions purely based upon money, but this video will show you how a career in construction engineering and construction management can provide you much more financial benefit than just a pure salary.
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1. Construction tends to pay better than design
Starting salaries for construction project engineers or construction field engineers in Hawaii are around 60k-90k for just a fresh out of college entry level engineer. What I've typically seen is that civil engineering design salaries are roughly $10k less. However there is a lot of time commitment and stress that comes with a career in the construction industry, so overall you probably have to work harder for that salary.
2. A career in construction engineering helps you with real estate investing
Working in construction management and engineering you understand value. Also being a part of the industry you get to get early access to developing areas and can connect with developers who specialize in monetizing real estate and profiting on property values.
3. A career in construction engineering can help with your renovations
Renovations are always a headache and having that background in construction really helps the process. One, you are aware of how the process needs to be built and what the contractor should be doing. Two, if you form relationships with the workers, they may be willing to help you at a discount. Three you can't be taken advantage of by your contractor because you know all the rules to the game and it just gives you more leverage.
4. A career in construction engineering can help with future opportunities.
Because the construction industry is so far reaching, if you don't like the life of general contracting, starting there will open you up to countless opportunities. What I typically see is that people don't like the hours, but like the industry, so they find a job at a smaller firm or working for a supplier just to remain there but have a better lifestyle that suits their needs.
5. A career in construction engineering can help you get the experience to start your own business.
Maybe because I'm not in tune with all businesses, but I feel like you really get opportunities to understand and learn how the construction business is run as just an employee. You get to make some risky decisions and learn how to protect the company. It is good to get these lessons out of the way before you go out on your own.
0:00 Intro
0:39 Great Starting Salaries
2:51 Helps You In Real Estate Investing
4:37 Improves Your Renovation Game
7:01 Opens Up Opportunities
8:24 Start Your Own Business!
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I need to binge-watch your channel during my soul searching, LOL. The struggle between project management in tech or construction.
Awesome video! Love the editing you did along with your stories made it very enjoyable!
Thank you Andy! Really appreciate you watching!
Hey man thank you for the videos. I'm in training to become a project manager in commercial electrical building. It's not exactly your field but it's close enough to where these vids have given me the confidence to keep going. Theres so much to learn lol
Awesome! Keep it up
It for sure boosts how to renovate things 😂 your videos also have a good laugh in them as well as valuable information on being a engineer. And i enjoy hearing about the sub trades !
I appreciate it man! Means a lot that you’re enjoying the videos haha 🤙
You have no idea how helpful this video was for me! I am an entry level Project Engineer in Portland, OR. Such a stressful job and hearing someone else say that was such a big relief. Gonna binge the rest of your videos tonight :) Thanks Kienen!!!!!!!!!
Which company? BMWC?
Graduating in May and start as a full-time project engineer in June. I can't stop watching your videos. Keep up the great content!
Thanks so much Parker! I appreciate it!
Very Good information Kienen!
Thanks so much John!
This motivated me a lot with my masters in construction engineering and management
Have you been applying? Any luck? What state are you in?
I am a sophomore at uno in omaha! Majoring construction engineering and minoring in math. I honestly chose it for the money but watching your videos and my few engineering (not math/science) classes I have taken make me excited and wanting to be in the industry and work in the field. It is nice to see I can afford the e46 m3 i want :)
I can relate to that lol, I chose engineering for the money/interest, then went into Civil and construction eng. & mgmt mostly for interest. Just graduated from clemson very recently, really looking forward to it when I find a job, and first thing I'm gonna buy will be a F82 M4 lmao. Not the smartest financial decision but it will be a fun decision lol.
What about smuggling drugs in cement bags you can make a ton of money from that
lol
Thank you for sharing your experience at least now I know a few things or so🙏🏾
Yup exactly, I feel like I know a little bit more while simultaneously still knowing nothing 😂
Lol love the painting story, communication, communication, communication. That’s the one lesson I learned early.
Completely agree!
Thank you, brilliant!!!
Thanks!
Wish I had seen this kind of video before I went to college and chose a career!
Thanks Mari! I appreciate it!
Love the nice shirt being an engineer is good
Haha agreed!
Please make a video on " the must have softwares for civil engineers ".
Wow.. so informative...I am young woman still aspiring within the construction industry I have studied a construction management and really would like to work abroad...I am from South Africa
Thank you Sisanda! Go for it!
I'm hoping to be come a project manager in the construction industry. I want to start my own business, but I don't know about being my own general contractor. Are there businesses in the industry that provide specifically project management to general contractors? Or is the standard method for GCs to hire their own PMs? Great video as always, keep them coming!
More so that the contractors manage their own PMs. There are other companies than manage the contractors but they work more on the owner’s side so you’re not really always in the middle of the building action. RLB is one for instance.
Awesome man, keep up the good informational vids... I'm a final-year student in Indonesia and aspire to be a construction engineer. I'm just curious. from your perspective, was construction and risk management taught in college enough for you to excel in the industry?
Hey man! Nice video. Right now I am studying structural engineering for my bachelor degree. I was thinking about to do master in construction managment, so I could have the management skills and the more technical skills to. My only question is, if I should rather start working in the construction industry for more experience after my bachelor or have a masters degree in construction management.
I push experience in the field over the degree. You’ll learn much more and you’ll get paid instead of paying money to learn. Plus you see if you really want to be part of the industry and can make a career change if need be without wasting money on a masters. You can learn mostly everything on the job in construction.
Hey what is the difference between construction engineer and construction engineering technology?? I really hope u would answer to this question
I’m 19 and currently in my second year doing civil engineering in fiji. We need a lot of advancements in technology and the scope here is huge. Would you like to work here for projects and scope it out one day ?
Subscribed and liked 👍🏻.. you think a B.S in construction management is a good career to become a project manager, probably going to start as a project engineer to learn the ropes.. then get my MS in Engineering Management from UNT- Texas
Thank you! I appreciate it 🤙 and yeah absolutely! Sounds like a good plan. Hopefully you can work at a company will pay for your masters or at least help. If you stay within the construction industry, sometimes an MBA can be good so you learn more about the business side of things as that becomes more important as you move up
Hahah the music when you went to Omaha 😂 engineering is definitely a great major, right off the bat you can make great money
Lol the Hawaii boy was a little out of place in Omaha...but yeah love being an engineer haha
Currently an Electrician apprentice , about to start school with a plan to move towards civil engineering any advice?
I'm a mechanical engineer and I want to get a master's degree in construction management what do you think about me?
What’s the difference between construction supervisor vs Construction engineering
Excellent breakdown, any recommended school in the Seattle area?
for me, UW was great, not too sure on the others...
@@KienenKoga ok nice
Hey, amazingly, I just found your video randomly on TH-cam. I see you haven’t posted in a while, staying with me. But I hope you are doing well.
Thank you for commenting! I appreciate it!
By design does that fall under structural engineering?
How about mechanical engineer and project management
What happens in civil engineering college basically? Can you pls plot it... I seemed to get confused in graduate-degree-licensed engr.
Sure! I can try make a future video on this
@@KienenKoga Thank You!!
Was the painter your grandma hired part of the internship you did??
Hahahahaha nah not this one
Recently I had joined PG in construction management.
Do you have any suggestion for the people like me
Get the experience and make sure the job fits your intended lifestyle.
Is construction engineering the same as structural engineering? And what licenses did you have to get as an engineer?
Great questions. No, construction engineering deals more with the actual build of the project, how it gets done, sequenced, etc. structural engineering is more of the design aspect of it and actually determining how the architect’s vision can actually work structurally. For example like in a lego set, the structural engineer will make the instructions, and the construction engineer will follow those instructions and build it. For me, no licenses are required!
@@KienenKoga I see, so what exactly is the difference between a construction worker and a construction engineer?
@@haidermoh.9937 the worker does the actual manual labor while the engineer prepares the plan and gives them the information they need to do their job properly
@@KienenKoga I see, thanks!
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Wow 50-90 k starting out is pretty darn good
Yup! Really not bad especially considering you don't need a secondary degree!
In which area of Civil Engineering there is more Money. Currently I AM in final Year. And wanted to make my Career in structure engineering. But I sometimes get dissapointed by searching on TH-cam that structure Engineers are get paid very less compared to Software engineers
Awesome question Himanshu, for me personally I was never interested or passionate about software engineering so even if it pays more, I couldnt see myself spending most of my life doing something I didn’t enjoy. From what ive seen, construction engineering pays the most (if you work in contracting) but it also seems the most stressful. Having a civil engineering degree opens a lot of doors for you that all can create decent financial opportunities for you, focus on what kind of work you actually enjoy over the money. The money will come 🤙
@@KienenKoga very well explained.. 🙌.. Construction Engineering means you wanna say construction management right. In which whole lot of work is site Related right? I love working on site but not for the whole day, mostly I am intrested in designing subjects so I want to make career in it. So I am thinking to pursue Masters in structural Engineering.
So are you saying people who get a bachelor in construction management you earn more money then people in civil engineering
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What are the chances of becoming a construction engineer without going to college?
Unless you have prior experience doing engineering work under an engineer, there’s a very slim chance you’ll get a job as an “engineer” without some degree pertaining to engineering. You could technically work your way up from field grunt to become a construction inspector that has similar duties, but most states won’t allow anyone to perform “engineering services” unless they are board certified or are working under the direction of someone who is. If you were to move into a construction inspector role, you’d most likely be getting paid much less than a construction engineer with an engineering degree or a degree in general. Check with your state’s board of engineers to confirm the process for becoming a state certified engineer. The education and experience requirements differ by state for licensure.
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Does a degree in civil engineering qualify you as a construction engineer?
yes
I have 5 years of Work experience
Does this apply to a construction Project Manager (UK)
not exactly sure how much that market pays, sorry. But some of the things in here for sure should help (like getting applicable knowledge to improving your home assets)
@@KienenKoga I was wondering if what you were saying also related to a construction project manager as opposed to just a construction Project engineer
@@MrPjchinwuba yup! Project managers make more money too than project engineers haha
Holy crap. I didn’t realize how low project engineers start out in pay. I would expect that after 4 years of school you would make more than $60k a year.
Probably varies wildly across the country. Straight out of college as an electrical engineer I started at 80k in Michigan, my Mechanical engineering friend started at 110 in Seattle, my civil engineering friend got 67k here in Michigan.
Hello, I've been watching ur videos lately and have watched all ur videos, they are very informative.
I am from India . I have done my bachelor's in civil engineering and have an experience of 4 years, is there any way I can get civil engineering job In Hawaii..
Would appreciate your reply.
Anything is possible; some of the smaller companies though may be tougher since they dont typically deal with international hires and may not have the background to handle it
How much do environmental engineers make?
Depends on the company likely and location. I would think close to civil e
Why’d you go to Omaha?
Just for work, last minute throw into the midwest
Did you major in civil engineering?
Yes he did
Whats your nationality sir?
Japanese! But born and raised in the US
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thank you!
I like Hawaiian shirts
Me too! Haha
I AM A Civil Engineer.
I want to join your company
Haha its a great place to work!
How about structural engineer?
Hey Bryan! I’ll probably try to do some videos in the future about other engineers too. Thanks for watching!
@@KienenKoga thankyou im just having a hard time choosing my specialization and i want to have a good decision
While in malaysia the engineers were poorly paid.