A former employer has contacted me regarding a possibility of contract work for an upcoming project for a city entity this April. I am currently on leave from a local county agency (leave ends in March) but I do not plan to be going back. My original plan was either to stop working for family...
Thanks for all the comments - with regards to salary, I have seen more cases than I would like to on people using counter-offers to leverage more pay from the firm they are working at...of course we all think that us engineers are underpaid - it seems that that's the only way to get your current...
I would love to continue in this field. In my current capacity I am not getting the satisfaction I wanted - I am doing a predesign for a treatment plant facility, the trouble is that facility is likely not going to be built - states are strapped for funds and various bureaucratic reasons like...
I started a thread regarding my humble observation of the current state of environmental consulting with my few years of experience -
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=131000
It seems to me that smaller firms may be more service orientated instead of concentrating a lot of their...
I work in a respectable private consulting firm in Northern CA and have 5 years of experience. More and more we are trying to "develop relationships with clients" and getting work instead of truely helping the environment. As a result junior-mid level engineers like me are not getting mentoring...
