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TSEC 81: How Engineers Can Find Flexibility in Structural Engineering

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FlexibilityIn this episode, we talk to Malory Atkinson, CPSM, LEED GA, about how engineers can find flexibility in structural engineering and what company owners can do to retain staff at their firms.

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Here Are Some of the Questions We Ask Malory:

  • What does flexibility in engineering mean for you?
  • What are some of the things that Shear has been doing to find flexibility in the SE profession beyond working from home?
  • What are some of the challenges you have faced with providing engineers with more flexibility and how do you overcome these challenges?
  • What is some of the feedback you have gotten from employees on how providing them with flexibility increased their quality of life?
  • What are some ways that company owners can incorporate flexibility into their company vision and mission?
  • What are some of the things employees can do to encourage company owners to incorporate flexibility?
  • What is Shear’s perspective on employee retention, and what are some of the other things Shear has done to retain staff?
  • Do you have any advice for young engineers starting out in their career?

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TECC 008: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Escaping the Cubicle Lifestyle as an Engineer

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Escaping the Cubicle Lifestyle as an Engineer

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to provide some coaching and guidance to an engineer who has a goal of escaping the cubicle lifestyle and building more freedom and flexibility into his career and lifestyle.

Engineering Management InstituteIt is a myth throughout the engineering industry that you must spend the first 10 years of your career, at least, sitting in a cubicle and performing technical calculations. In this show, my guest wants to expose that myth and take a different path, and I give him strategies to help him do just that.

As always, I will also provide a career-changing tip at the end of the show. This week’s tip will provide you with a strategy that will help you think bigger and take more risks in your engineering career.

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” – Timothy Ferris

In order to achieve your engineering career goals, you have to act on your ideas NOW, not later.

Our guest for Session 8 is Dan, a 26-year-old electrical engineering professional in Washington, DC.

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