Traveling as an Engineer

civegn
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:55:47 +0000

Thanks for the insight! I was referring to vacation travel, not business travel. A couple of days in between site visits and the home office isn’t exactly my idea of travel, but at least some site seeing could be done. This seems like the most realistic way of combining work and travel. I am leaning more towards consulting/structural engineering so there’s some possibility of business travel at least.

Any comments on the second paragraph of my OP?:
“I also want to do humanitarian work through engineering similar to that of Engineers Without Borders. Is there a non-traditional path for civil engineering(NOT USACE) that might fit my interests?”

"This job required a substantial amount of travel. Needless to say I was not very interested in that job! "

That job does sound pretty stressful. Even though that extensive travel is only every few weeks, it IS intense.