Let’s continue the “Catch Up Series” with the next events that took place during my journey ultimately leading me to where I am today. We left off during my Freshman year of college having finally settled on Chemical Engineering as my major of choice. The next four years until graduation were fairly uneventful. Everything moved according to plan and I…
-
-
My Favorite Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience
As technology progresses, instant gratification becomes more and more prevalent in our everyday lives. We are continuously conditioned to expect results to occur faster with defeat around the corner if we don’t get what we wanted. We as humans can’t really fault ourselves, we are creatures of pleasure and habit. Once we get pleasure and are gratified quickly, we end…
-
Recommendations
Below I share with you any and all books, podcasts, and various tools I use to improve my life in hopes they will also help yours.
-
Construction Terminology: Jargon You Got To Know (Part I)
As someone who never studied construction academically, learning a new whole set of industry specific jargon was challenging. So I wanted to put together a simple post of construction terms and their uses to help out my readers. Now this list is nowhere near being comprehensive, but it’s a simple A-Z with the most common words I have come across…
-
Engineering Realities: You Do Less “Engineering” Than You Were Told
Engineering is a lot of math, formulas, and coding right? Nope. More like paperwork, meetings, and oh ya more paperwork. The reality is that only a small portion of a company does the heavy number crunching, the majority do paperwork and logistical tasks. Throughout your engineering education you might solve at least a thousand math heavy problems, however, once you’re…
-
Construction Chronicles #1: First Day In A Strange New World
I hope you enjoy our very first post from the series “Construction Chronicles”. More to come! Reporting For Duty I was told to report to the Safety Trailer at 7:00AM for my first day to go through orientation and complete my new-hire paperwork. That morning I made sure to wake up extra early, hit the road, and arrive with plenty…
-
Welcome to Engineered Journey!
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" - John A. Shedd
-
Catch Up Series (Part One) – Where Does The Journey Begin?
In the next few posts, titled “Catch Up Series”, I will provide you with some background to my career and academic history. In this Part One post, I’ll describe a little bit about the start of my strange journey leading me to where I am now. As I have mentioned in my “About Me” section, I graduated with a degree…
