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    am I being shafted?

    LOL, this guy said the shaft is being torsionally and axially loaded. i hate engineers sometimes, lol.
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    Does maintaining a social networking page help me gain employment

    honesty is never detrimental to your career.
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    Resume Advice: Work Histroy Issues

    keep everything on there, and just explain what happened.
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    Test Reimbursement

    it's not worth it. and you don't have any legal grounds. it's only a few hundred bucks.
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    if i take the NEW structural exam of NCEE?

    i heard that cali will still have a 3. and that the new tests take care of use 1 and 2.
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    if i take the NEW structural exam of NCEE?

    from what i heard, you have to take both exams (lateral and vertical) just to be a PE (structural). that kind of sucks.
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    Structural looking to make a change?

    i was involved in a few forensic cases when i started my career with a design house.....collapses, law suits, construction defects. i had an offer to do this type of work away from my home, but i was afraid i'd lose my engineering touch. much of the work are things that have very little to...
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    $25/hr no overtime pay for PE with 9 yrs exp

    take it. screw his cheap tail later when things get good.
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    Structural looking to make a change?

    i changed to forensics. i like it. no one is really building, so it was an economic decision at first. but it's fun. and i get to be outside. plus it's something new every day. no shop drawings, no arguing with architects, AND no designing one column 15 times.
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    Offered a job, but should I accept it?

    i dunno. i was offered a position in michigan about two months ago. i turned it down because i really didn't want to relocate. so i was out of real work and just doing small designs on the side to make myself some money. turns out it was a good idea, about a month and a half after i turned...
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    I lost my first! Is this the end of the world?

    first time, i was laid off.....it was a numbers thing. 20% let go, and everyone got a pay cut. it stung, it sucked, and no one was hiring. i liked the position. so i just prayed, and about a month later a "job" came by. note that i didn't say career. 2nd time, i was "fired." boss's sons...
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    job (structural engineering)

    well, i don't know if your biggest problem right now is your education. if you have an MS is Civil/Structural, right? and an additional MS in Arch? yea, i think for everyone.....even seasoned engineers are having a hard time finding work. don't think it's all you, or everything of what we've...
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    Shear in slab desig need to be considered or not

    what programs don't check for beam shear? i usually check with quick hand calcs, too. particularly punching shear.
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    job (structural engineering)

    i think everyone's ideas on PHd's in SE are on point. i guess it's a good thing to have, but how often are you really doing that stuff? heck, i don't even some most of the stuff i saw in my master's program. though i saw the prandlt membrane analogy once. i almost laughed and had to call one...
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    Just Passed PE exam!

    congrats! florida took 8 weeks on the dot (SEI). georgia took damn near like 3.5 months (SEII). good grief.
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