Why Civil / Environmental Engineering?

The reasons they are happy are that Civil Engineers:

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• Earn good pay.
  
• Have great freedom at work.
  
• Are promoted quickly, or even become their own bosses.
  
• Get to work outside sometimes.
  
• Are not stuck in the same office with the same people for their entire career, but meet lots of people in different professions.
  
• Get a feeling of accomplishment working on exciting and meaningful projects.
  
• See how they are useful, because they are in smaller firms and do not get lost in a big company.
  
• Have good job security. (CE is the most prominent type of engineering on the planet. There will always be work for CEs as long as there are cities.)

Do Civil and Environmental Engineers earn as much as other engineers, astronauts and MDs?

No. CEs earn a little less than other engineers. However, CEs still earn very good pay.

Having good pay is important for happiness, and CEs earn a lot. Most people want money because it helps them become happy. CE's slightly smaller pay is more than made up for by the many other benefits of the job which make CEs happier.

Most Engineers become wealthy no matter what type of engineer they are. Would you rather be a happy engineer, or an unhappy engineer with slight higher pay?

What is Civil & Environmental Engineering?

Civil and Environmental Engineering is the most diverse engineering field. Depending on who you work for you may work on: airports, bridges, buildings, canals, dams, environmental cleanup, excavations, harbors, highways, industrial facilities, landfills, Navy Seabees construction or demolition, piers, pipelines, reservoirs, roads, site planning, tunnels, water and wastewater treatment plants.

Usually CEs get to work on many of these things. This is because Civil Engineers and the firms they work for are very diverse. They go from one project to the next, reforming their employees into new teams for new projects.

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