Working for myself 4

[Nitram21]

I'm a young engineer currently working for a small design firm in the Oil/Gas industry. I like my work and I'm learning lots. However, I'm still not sure this is what I want to do forever.

Ultimately I'd just like to work for myself. I spent my senior year at University dug into a feasibility study for a large-scale power plant as my senior design project. I really enjoyed this work (both the power-gen stuff and the high-level nature of such a study) and I think I'd eventually like to do feasibility studies full-time.

I'm just not sure where to start. I've browsed around a few sites (like this:

http://www.tendersinfo.com/global-consultancy-engineering-tenders.php)

that have boat loads of these jobs.

Is there anyone out there that works for themselves and does this kind of stuff? Am I crazy for thinking that I could find a small-scale, low budget project, and slowly gain experience with these type of jobs before transitioning to them full time a few years down the road?

 

[beej67]

While I'm sure the feasibility study you performed in college was a lot of fun, please do be aware that the most important thing that goes into a feasibility study is the constultant's experience. That's what they're hiring you for - to avoid unforeseen problems by knowing about them before hand.

If you want to do that kind of work, spend at least half a decade at a firm that does that kind of work.

Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East -

http://www.campbellcivil.com