Building roads isn't sexy but they're needed

It's a perfect storm, like so many others it seems these days.

As President Joe Biden's giant infrastructure law floods money into giant construction projects around the country, fewer and fewer people are going into civil engineering.

One of those roles needed to actually do the work.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the country needs to add about 25,000 civil engineers a year just to keep up with retirement.

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This is being felt everywhere.

The Seattle Times details this.

Bids for construction projects in that state are down dramatically.

In up for entry-level engineers.

The article claims that one undergrad got four engineering job offers a year before she graduated.

I wish I got those.

The chair of the University of Washington's civil engineering project Bart Nielsen said that students just aren't into the field.

He says they want to do robots.

Nothing against that but that's the image that they have of civil engineering at times.

That it's not really thought of as something let's call it sexy.

all these things will likely lead to delays on major projects from see the shining she in opportunities galore so if you know a bright college-aged kid let them know that building roads could take them in the country pretty far.

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