In The Pipeline

Post date: Jan 29, 2015 6:8:13 PM

Since I have started my work at the DOT I have been learning a lot every day! I never thought it would be like this, but it is amazing how much you miss in academia while your are only learning to get good grades and pass the tests and earn your degree! All theoretical material, books and papers, not very sensible to a civil engineering. At least we had some labs as well so we could get in touch with what we are reading in the books.

Anyhow, working with people is a totally different story, the type of interactions you have is different than what you used to have at school and the way things work is also different. In a way I can say at work, e.g. at a DOT you are more dealing with the big picture of what is actually going on out in the real world and not focusing on the details of different fields of science and technology and dealing with equations and finding out the answer to get an A. Not that you don't deal with equation and analyses of various situations; what I mean is that it provides you with a broader view of how things work, it provides perspective and direction. It is like you fly above the earth and watch how different things are sorted out next to each other on the ground, like how the rivers made, the mountains arranged, the houses and cities and roads, let alone what is there inside each one of those. It is somehow nice that you deal with those details int he school and then you back off a little bit and look at all the material as a whole. Now you feel better with more choices and options to proceed in your journey of mastery.So what is "in the pipeline"?

That means a project is programmed and is in the pipeline to be endorsed for construction or it is progressing to the final phases of being let. So what is let? ...