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Summary: The hardest moments for a civil engineer often relate to designs that do not function as they should. Hear about the hardest days for civil engineers from the manager of an engineering company in this free video on career information.
Jerry Eliott is a managing partner of Weber Eliott Engineers in Eugene, OR. Webber Eliott Engineers has more than 50 employees providing a broad range of expertise, enabling them to...read more
"My name is Jerry Elliot. I'm a managing partner of Weber Elliot Engineers in Eugene, Oregon. I've been asked to address the question of what is my hardest day as a civil engineer. You know, I'm not sure I've ever had a real hardest day. I remember one time I was at a client's facility, and it was broken down, and I was in my dress shoes, and I was up to waste in muddy water, and I thought, hmm, I better quit giving him a favor here and start charging him. So I looked up at him, and I said Randy, I'm going to start running the meter right now. But really, more seriously, the hardest day at civil engineering--as a civil engineer--is when you get that phone call from a client, and he calls you up and he says you know this thing you put together? It's not working. Those are not fun times, and they often require a lot of scrambling and putting things together. In my career I've been very fortunate that I got them to work again, but that is a very unnerving part of being a civil engineer. So that's some of the hard things about being a civil engineer."
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