On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:01:50 +1000, Tat Chan
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:15:38 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


As someone who has been involved with 'Civil' Engineering in the past I can
tell you (from memory) the 'Angle Of Repose' for topsoil and spoil is 55
degrees (from the horizontal, of course), I have *no idea* what it is for
bull****.....


Funny, I thought you would have intimate knowledge of that figure.....

BTW, shouldn't that depend on soil composition and water content?
Also, why is that 'civil' engineers never are? Hairy-arsed brickies by
nature, all the ones I've ever met! Universally known in colleges as
'thick civs'..........................


And the people who did well in their A Levels went on to do EE instead
of CE ...

on a more serious note though (feel free to correct me), civil engineers
usually have better career/managerial prospects than EE people. EE
people then to be fairly specialised in an acutal technical field, and I
have found that civ engs tend to do more paper pushing, project
management, etc than any actual technical work. And they also work on
larger projects with more money involved (compared to
electronics/computer projects), which is why they are more likely to get
promoted to middle management than EE people.

Sadly true. One of the things that really ****ed me off in my later
years in electronics, was that you train for five-ten years to become
a (hopefully) top-class engineer, then to get any more money, you have
to get promoted into management, for which you have no inclination,
quite possibly no talent, and certainly no training.................

It was nice to get back into 'hands-on' consultancy, but then you
discover that 'consultancy' is really about sales, for which you
have........... :-(

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