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<p>You’ll be fine if you’re in your early college years, but you might have a little trouble finding internships in the next year or so. Things should turn around in 2010, we’re told.</p>
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<p>Most of my travel is regional. I work in an office (a really nice one… our clients are architects and having a gorgeous office is a great marketing tool). If I’m doing construction administration (one person per major project is left behind when design is done to make sure that things are built according to our design) then I’m outside a lot. You can pick your work environment, to a certain degree… There will be some office work for all structural engineers, doing calcs and writing reports, but some are outside more than others. And yeah, you typically work on a team, either of other engineers, or of other designers (architects, mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineers, site development engineers, landscape architects, etc.) if you’re a project manager or if you work on smaller projects. You typically don’t work alone all the time, though you do have to be able to work independently.</p>
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<p>They’ll need to learn how to build things without cutting corners first…
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