271828, my experience wasn't good either. The first afternoon problem was designing one bent of a steel building. I knew how to do everything, but there was no way I was going to come up with all the gravity loadings, environmental loadings, moment distribution and the code checks for this...
My state doesn't require the SEII, but I took it anyway just to cover myself and I have used it. I took the SEI and SEII in my late 30's and I sure as heck didn't want to have to take it after my brain gelled much more. I have since worked on projects in Nevada, Arizona and Illinois that...
