fluids & heat transfer engineers
fluids & heat transfer engineers
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when these folks break out on their own, who do they tackle as clients? and what do they do?
most consulting engineers i know, work as structural engineers....
thanks. scott.
most consulting engineers i know, work as structural engineers....
thanks. scott.
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Some places for heat transfer engineers would be heat treating, foundries, forging, hot-forming, etc. Also of course OEMs that make equipment for the above industries.
Aerodynamics is a branch of fluids, so I would expect a lot of fluid specialists in creating vehicles (both flying and reducing drag of cars, trains, etc). Boat design as well.
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do you work for yourself? i have worked for Boeing in my area of fluids and heat transfer but there doesn't seem to be alot of need for these kinds of engineers in the self-employment world. thanks for the input..
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David
RE: fluids & heat transfer engineers
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I try to block one day a fortnight to do administrative crap. I always do billing on the first of the month. So I have limited non-productive time to around 3 days/month. Today I finished paying bills at 10:00 so I've been working much of the day. There have been months that I billed over 300 hours, but that usually involves a lot of dead time on airplanes.
Charging for travel time sticks in the craw of some clients, but that is a gun I stand by--if I'm on a plane going around the world for you, then I can't be serving my other clients, if you don't like it either find someone closer or do the job via conference call. I've gotten a reputation in a narrow enough field that they usually just grumble and pay it.
In 6 years I've had zero clients refuse to pay an invoice and the only one that ever complained I had overcharged him eventually paid the full amount when I said "pay what you think the work was worth, if it is less than the full amount I'll move your company to the inactive list and won't accept any more work from you". He paid.
David