Engineering skills + environmental conscience?
Discussion
I was always going to be an engineer and at 29 find myself working for an ‘energy solutions’ company (which is what Halliburton calls itself these days). It’s not a bad gig and it has its moments.
I got here via an apprenticeship. I got mediocre results at school and through my training got an HNC. Never got a degree etc.
Apart from technical skills I’ve learned a bit of project management stuff.
When I ask myself what I would do in my ideal world I visualise things like hauling plastic out of the sea, forest conservation etc etc.
There are environmental experts in my industry. There are also wind farm projects and stuff.
These things don’t really hit the spot for me. I would actually love to go to places and actively do stuff.
I’d take a bit of a pay cut.
I don’t think things like this exist though?
I got here via an apprenticeship. I got mediocre results at school and through my training got an HNC. Never got a degree etc.
Apart from technical skills I’ve learned a bit of project management stuff.
When I ask myself what I would do in my ideal world I visualise things like hauling plastic out of the sea, forest conservation etc etc.
There are environmental experts in my industry. There are also wind farm projects and stuff.
These things don’t really hit the spot for me. I would actually love to go to places and actively do stuff.
I’d take a bit of a pay cut.
I don’t think things like this exist though?
HustleRussell said:
When I ask myself what I would do in my ideal world I visualise things like hauling plastic out of the sea, forest conservation etc etc.
I would actually love to go to places and actively do stuff.
I don’t think things like this exist though?
Coincidentally, just watching these guys on tv right now:I would actually love to go to places and actively do stuff.
I don’t think things like this exist though?
https://seashepherd.org/
The world in which you aspire to is that in which I work. And there’s plenty of it.
For the really interesting stuff and that where you can make the biggest impact, you should look at post-conflict, low income and emerging economic regions where the international finance sector operates at the fore. In common parlance: international aid.
The big players in this sector include names like Mott McDonald, WS Atkins, Hydroplan, Stantec…… and many others.
The key sectors that attract the greatest funding tend to be energy, waste, sanitation, infrastructure, water. Plastic debris is a fast emerging sector.
It’s in places like this that you can make the biggest impact; certainly more than sticking up another wind farm generator in the UK.
Lots happening along East Africa, South and South East Asia, Central Americal and the Former Soviet Neighbourhood Countries (Belarus, Georgia, etc.).
PM if you’d like a few more pointers or insight.
For the really interesting stuff and that where you can make the biggest impact, you should look at post-conflict, low income and emerging economic regions where the international finance sector operates at the fore. In common parlance: international aid.
The big players in this sector include names like Mott McDonald, WS Atkins, Hydroplan, Stantec…… and many others.
The key sectors that attract the greatest funding tend to be energy, waste, sanitation, infrastructure, water. Plastic debris is a fast emerging sector.
It’s in places like this that you can make the biggest impact; certainly more than sticking up another wind farm generator in the UK.
Lots happening along East Africa, South and South East Asia, Central Americal and the Former Soviet Neighbourhood Countries (Belarus, Georgia, etc.).
PM if you’d like a few more pointers or insight.
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