Narrowing It Down

There are many different types of engineers; civil, mechanical, chemical, environmental, agricultural, aerospace, and biochemical, to name a few. I have chosen to be a civil engineer, due to my interest in structural aspects of buildings, bridges, and dams. Now to be a civil engineer, you must narrow down the field in which you wish to have an expertise in. I have interest in buildings, but that field is very crowded with work. That is the career choice of many upcoming engineers, and I figure that there will not be many available jobs due to the popularity. So I thought long and hard about what expertise would be most interesting and would deliver the most potential jobs. I read that many of the bridges that were built in the beginning of the century are due to be renovated and possibly rebuilt in the near future. I decided that bridges would be the desired expertise in my mind. There will most likely be big money in the future when many bridges are inspected and will be needing renovation. I am hoping to land a job possibly in NYC or another city with big business and a need for many bridges to be up kept. There are far less bridge experts than there are building experts, due to the liability factors an engineer must undertake within building a bridge.