u/Dogsrlife23

I need advice. I have 6 years of experience and my PE license.

I work for a company where we do primarily buildings but that incudes a lot of different healthcare projects — let this be new MRI/CT/etc equipment in existing hospitals/medical buildings.

I’ve worked on a good amount of buildings now but my scope for the past 5 months has been all of these tiny healthcare projects. For those of you who have never worked on these type of projects, you typically get structural details from a the vendor drawings and just have to specify an attachment bolt & verify if the structure can take the additional load. They are not labor intensive, but are very boring.

I’m getting a little sick of these tiny projects…
I have about 6 of them right now and they do take up some time but it’s extremely redundant work and not really growing my engineering knowledge. The other issue I have is that I sit in one of our smaller offices, so the head of that office is under the impression that because I sit in his office that I should be assigned these projects and just automatically throws them my way without asking my supervisor.

I’ve expressed this to my supervisors multiple times that we need to spread the love on these projects, especially in my opinion this is something someone with a PE license and a higher billable rate should be reviewing, not performing the work. Because my billable rate is higher than an EIT, I only get about 15 hours max on each of these projects. These small projects also limit my availability to assist other engineers on bigger projects.

My plan right now is to give it until the end of the summer to see if we get any bigger projects that break loose that I will be working on. I’m a bit worried because this is my third job in six years that it will look like I’m jumping around a bit. Do you think I’m overreacting?

I do love my job and my company but these past 5 months have been frustrating and I feel like my complaints are falling on deaf ears

I got an IUD in July 2021 and had a horrible experience. My doctor told me I would not feel any pain and to just take some pain meds an hour before.
I almost passed out on the chair from how painful it was. I had to ask the nurse for water because I could feel like I was about to pass out and got those sweats. They never cared to check up on me.

Now 5 years later I was very nervous to get the replacements. I now I live in another state and went to a different doctor… oh my goodness today was a different experience. They offered laughing gas at the office which I opted to pay for. I also saw a midwife who gave me step by step what she was doing. The medical assistant held my hand and told me to squeeze it if I felt pain. It was still painful but it was a completely different experience. They kept giving me words of encouragement instead of dismissing how it felt. She even had motivational stickers and let me take one lol.

The pain still sucks but having a provider that isn’t dismissive makes such a difference!