Young Engineers: What's the next step in your career?
(PRWEB) July 30, 2015 -- By: Chad Hartmann
What should graduate engineers expect when they start their new careers? Life-long learning. You may have just graduated and feel like your young mind can't grow any more than it did while you were in college. Think again. This is the equivalent of starting out in kindergarten. What you learned in college gives you the technical background to understand the theory of why you do what you do in your Civil Engineering career, but it doesn't give you a full grasp on what you actually do.
College teaches you to color between the lines and to play nice on the playground. When you get into the real world, and start your career, you learn how to apply that theory and solve real problems. You know, the problems like “Train A leaves Dallas at 55 mph and Train B leaves Houston at 95 mph, where do they intersect”? The answer is they don't. The problem never specified their direction of travel. You'll soon realize that a vital aspect of your career growth involves something you might not have tried in college. Asking questions. You don’t know what you don't know.
One thing to consider when you begin that new job is that you are surrounded by a wealth, a plethora, of experience and knowledge, so take advantage of it. The senior partners in your firm have been there, they've done that, and they got a t-shirt AND a mug. They will be your greatest source of information and your ally. Ask for their advice. Ask for their opinion. Even if it doesn't match what you were thinking, respect that they are looking at your problem from an angle you never thought about.
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