I've been really flat out at work lately. This evening, working back late with a cold, trying to get some lintel designs sorted out as quickly as I could, I began to wonder why I was a consulting structural engineer. The pay is hardly great, you don't get any respect from others in the industry... architects want physically impossible designs, huge spans with little or no vertical elements to hold them up, builders want to cut out as much money from the structure as they can so that they can make more, and don't get me started with all the holes the services guys want to punch through the walls and slabs. I suppose the harsh reality of it all is that it's a money driven industry.
Damn you, Lego. I blame you.
Don't know what I'd do if I didn't do engineering though. Any ideas? I think I'd pretty much suck at everything else. Maybe it's time to go into academia and take out my pain and frustration on the students...
[4 sleeps to go until the half marathon. I am starting to freak out.]
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