Career Progression?
Career Progression?
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Aloha fellow geotechs...
I am an EIT transplant to Hawaii for 18 months. I do not know any other geotechs other than very seasoned professionals. I would like some highly objective opinions on my situation as an EIT.
I started logging after 3 months after spending time in a laboratory running Attaberg Limits, Sieve Analysis, and Modified Proctor testing. I have only a few different types of geotechnical analysis in the last year, and only one type (drilled shaft design) repeatedly. At just over a year of experience (and only a BSCE), I feel I often cannot meet boss-man's expectations. He is very particular on how he likes me to scribe logs. I expect that, but every time I log for him, I can never get it right. If you were at my experience level, or you manage someone who is, what are your expectations for them as far as logging, design, managing the lab, and drafting?
I am an EIT transplant to Hawaii for 18 months. I do not know any other geotechs other than very seasoned professionals. I would like some highly objective opinions on my situation as an EIT.
I started logging after 3 months after spending time in a laboratory running Attaberg Limits, Sieve Analysis, and Modified Proctor testing. I have only a few different types of geotechnical analysis in the last year, and only one type (drilled shaft design) repeatedly. At just over a year of experience (and only a BSCE), I feel I often cannot meet boss-man's expectations. He is very particular on how he likes me to scribe logs. I expect that, but every time I log for him, I can never get it right. If you were at my experience level, or you manage someone who is, what are your expectations for them as far as logging, design, managing the lab, and drafting?





RE: Career Progression?
Seems to me that you need to manage your boss by asking for a specific template to follow. Or, he could simply be power-tripping by keepping you hopping.
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RE: Career Progression?
Hang in there and on weeknights read "Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations by David McCarthy".
RE: Career Progression?
It does take many years to get soil classification right though. . .
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RE: Career Progression?
What you can do is to ask him to leave the samples behind after he reviews them and go through his revised log. Also, performing a lot of laboratory testing yourself and observe your "guess" classification to the "correct" classification and you'll eventually learn. It's not easy to properly classify soils.
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