As of right now, I am not a big fan of my internship. I was thinking that I was going to learn soooooo much, but it really doesn’t seem that way at all. Technically, I am a project engineer which means I should be handling RFIs, change estimates, pay apps, submittals etc.
The project I got put on is a 4 million dollar apartment renovation project…absolutely nothing compared to a 600 million dollar plus project.
It’s so simple that it requires like none of those documents. I kid you not, I was about to just skip work today just cause I felt there was nothing to do on the jobsite. I didn’t do much going there the first time anyway, all I did was move refrigerators and sweep apartments. I didn’t have to, I just did cause I was bored. I left early to go to the gym that Friday too lmao.
I didn’t skip today because I called my supervisor and let him know how I felt. Apparently he’s going to show me a bit about project scheduling which is something I have not done before.
Oh yeah btw this is an unpaid internship, two construction old heads (really awesome faculty at my university) are telling me to quit and say I’m way too valuable to be doing that. Lol he called it slavery….My plan was to milk this for experience then use it as a resume booster.
I mean…what kind of general contractor hires someone who can’t commit a ridiculous amount of hours. I’m pretty sure If I were to go somewhere else I’m gonna need one hell of a connection. I don’t see any other general contractors hiring college students then catering to their schedule.
Perhaps I’m not utilizing my wide range of connections though.
Safe to say my plan is kind of going to poop at this moment. But it’s only been a week so maybe that will change.
Oh and one last thing, residential construction is boring, commercial is where it’s at. Although I do feel like I will regret that because entry level field engineers and project engineers tend to work like dogs and get no overtime. The company also does some self performed work as well, unfortunately I cannot partake in putting up drywall because of contract business legal construction stuff blah blah blah.
Thank you for asking Atlas, I appreciate it. I’m not down in the dumps or anything, just want to make the best of my situation.
If there was anything I was upset about, it was my diet, yet here I am sitting at the office drinking half a gallon of milk from my comically large thermos. Problem solved.
