27 April 2006

Top Ten Reasons to be a Civil Engineer

Recently, a friend posted about having the best job in America: a software engineer. I like to think that being a civil engineer is pretty great too. And to reinforce this, here are my top ten reasons to be a civil engineer:

10. Causing the next dark age
9. Ass-phalt jokes
8. Compressive strength test... Not just for concrete cylinders ;)






7. Play in the dirt






6. Free Body Diagrams
5. Concrete Canoes
4. Government jobs...
3. "Studying" hydraulic jumps









2. Huge job market... every state needs us.
1. Where would the world be without civil engineers? No roads, bridges, dams, canals, levees slyscrapers, stadiums.

1 comment:

Arnold said...

Reasons to be a scientist: 1. You get to live off of taxes. 2. People automatically assume (usually correctly) that you are capable of making their most dreaded nightmares come to life with unspeakable horror. 3. Without science, there wouldn't be nearly the amount of good, decent, character-building mental and physical suffering in the world. 4. You don't get distracted by members of the opposite sex, because they don't really like you. 5. Without science, we'd all still be living back in the days when everything was simple, every day was spent in good, honest labor, for entertainment all people needed was to go have a pint with friends in the pub in the evenings, you were one with the land, families talked face-to-face...hmmm. Actually I've just convinced myself to become a farmer in the Irish countryside. Sorry, science.