What careers don’t get enough credit for being fulfilling, acceptable pay and a good work life balance?

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Geotechnical jobs.

    I live in a major US metro area, and finding time a damn soils engineer was a nightmare. There are very few around and it can take months to get on their calendar because they’re spread so damn thin.

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        8 months ago

        That’s a good point. The problem is probably that they don’t want to do residential contract work. They’d rather work for big developers or energy companies.

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      8 months ago

      Start hiring people out of Alberta. Still lots of engineers looking for work.

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      8 months ago

      I got to speak with a few soil engineers at a recent job site and they said the worst part of their job is that everyone hates that they’re around, because they’ll make or break a site, lol. I felt bad.