Are you happy?

[Terrel L. Shields]

video from Elon at all, right?

So?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I would get a Civil Engineering degree.

It is the least profitable engineering degree you can get, and most Civil Engineers also qualify as land surveyors. So, it can be profitable to own your own firm, but maybe less profitable to work for another civil engineer. And if you can specialize, then it can be even more profitable. Working remedial landslide work, airfield work, dam construction, etc. can be very lucrative and somewhat risky liability wise. Often, they act as expert witnesses when a material failure or building failure occurs. I worked for one and I remember collecting and testing asphalt samples in a parking lot of a grocery where the contractor had a bad asphalt mix and had to redo the lot. The also may act as project managers and hire the mechanical engineers and architects who they need to complete a project.

 

[Alsie35]

This should have been posted in the Watercooler - might have gotten a lot more interesting responses there - "The Gym" directory is open for viewing to the internet.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

 

[George Hatch]

Then why are you an appraiser? Appraisers need to engage with people to get information. Are you happy being an appraiser?

You should travel to different places and see how the rest of the world lives. It will bring your wife closer as you go through the unknown together.
It's the experiences that stays in your memory forever whether good or bad.

I've done enough travel and seen enough foreign countries in my life, albeit not as a tourist. I speak Mandarin without an accent, which you don't get to without immersion. So when I say I don't enjoy travel and don't have some burning need to get away from my day-to-day that isn't some blindered worldview. It's from experience albeit not as a fly-in/fly-out tourist. I don't even enjoy doing the tourist thing here. I'm never going back to Vegas or DC or NYC, except at gunpoint.

I live in a beach town in a tourist-heavy area of SD County, and I don't like the tourists who come down from L.A. (especially not their driving habits), either. I wish they'd stay home. Get off my lawn.

 

[George Hatch]

Then why are you an appraiser? Appraisers need to engage with people to get information. Are you happy being an appraiser?

You should travel to different places and see how the rest of the world lives. It will bring your wife closer as you go through the unknown together.
It's the experiences that stays in your memory forever whether good or bad.

What makes you think I am incapable of engaging with people to the extent necessary to do my job? Or that my relationship needs improvement?

I love being an appraiser. It suits my personality perfectly. Especially to the extent that my subject is the property. Not the occupants.

I've seen how much of the other world lives and as far as I'm concerned that's great for them. But I don't aspire to be them. I'm so happy with how it works here that I don't seek the get away or the escape.

Fun fact: women solo travel at 2x the rate that men solo travel. (Different destinations and itineraries, too) I think that speaks to who thinks they need to escape their day-to-day.

If I want to get away there's the entirety of America left to travel.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

I say I am happy, but because of my upbringing, I have to have immaculate clean car/truck. So why am I a rural appraiser who has to drive construction sites and gravel roads multiple times a week? I cannot stand the gray dust on the tires and everywhere else including caked onto the back bumper. I have to drive through a car wash 4+ times a week to keep from obsessing about my dirty truck. Otherwise, I have a happy life.

 

[TC]

Fun fact: women solo travel at 2x the rate that men solo travel. (Different destinations and itineraries, too) I think that speaks to who thinks they need to escape their day-to-day.

My wife will travel at the drop of a hat. Me, not so much. Luckily, she has a good friend who shares her feelings. And very lucky for me, her husband feels the same way I do. They toured Europe for about 12 days last year. Great vacation for me!

 

[Terrel L. Shields]