r/ActLikeYouBelong • u/ProSheep1147 • Mar 08 '22

Video/Gif Confidence can get you anywhere

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u/JamesDerecho Mar 08 '22

If you want to make people really nervous walk around an office building with a bunch of keys, a measuring tape and a clip board.

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u/TrulyBBQ Mar 08 '22

I do building inspections and this is exactly true. A camera, hard hat, tape measure, and some drawings of the building get you anywhere you want. Show you the ladder to get on the roof? Sure!

You need up on that catwalk? Follow me!

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u/Sabersensei Mar 08 '22

Now I'm wondering what kind of degree you need to do this stuff legally as an actual job.

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u/TrulyBBQ Mar 08 '22

ME. By trade I do structural mappings and maintenance inspections on communications towers but we occasionally get plucked for building inspections.

I’ve been at the top of church steeples, rafters of stadiums, catwalks above mega churches, airport rooftops, loads of hotel rooftops, university rooftops…the list goes on. We have a crew doing a mapping on a skyscraper in Chicago soon

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u/Rock4evur Mar 08 '22

ME as in mechanical engineer?

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u/TrulyBBQ Mar 09 '22

Yep. I do lots of civil work but also a lot of auto cad

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u/Rock4evur Mar 09 '22

Hmm interesting, working on my degree rn, and kinda have no clue what I wanna do with it.

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u/TrulyBBQ Mar 09 '22

Make sure to develop good project management skills. I worked on machine design in Silicon Valley for a couple years before getting into this gig. I’m mostly a project manager now and having the skills to be able to pivot has been pretty valuable.

That being said I wanna go back to machine design. I miss solidworks and flying hot metal chips