I just came back in from mowing the grass like a 33-year-old boomer.
>>9885753>Are you a Civil major?Affirmative, bachelor's only.
>How is the pay?I'm at 105k after 12 years. I started at 40k in 2007 right when the recession hit, took me 5 months to find a job and I had to beg for it. The new grads we just hired are at 60k which is offensive, I was making that only after 5 years of experience.
The PM rate that was scoped for the project I was talking about is almost twice what I make. It was supposed to be a guy who was my firm's technical leader in this specific type of work with 35 years of experience doing it. Then he retired in the middle of some major turnover in my firm's technical group for this work. Now I'm doing it.
>Damn Anon that sounds pretty stressful.It's pretty shitty, but to put it in perspective, I never worried about work before this project. I worked long hours, worked at home, stayed in the office nights and weekends sometimes, but I never had a problem putting the pencil down. So the job does not have to be like this, but it is at the moment.
Again, it's not clear what the real consequences are if/when this project goes south, but I still don't sleep/eat well and am preoccupied with it even when not working (like right now). Maybe it is a combination of the job + overall burnout + fatigue (my youngest had just turned 2 when I took over this project so I had not been getting sleep even before) + all the personal shit. But I think if I didn't have this project then I'd be perfectly fine. I don't stay up at night worrying about anything else.
A lot of this is my fault, either my fuckups on the project or my not being able to let it go. All the same, it is frustrating that, after busting my ass for 12 years, I'm at a point in my life where I really need to be able to take some time to put work on the back burner and focus on my family and I can't do it because of a project I shouldn't even be working on, much less managing.
