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What do you like about your job? What don't you like about your job? What do you do on a daily basis?

I want to work in construction and Electrical Power Line. #construction #job

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John’s Answer

Being in Occupational Safety and Health with work experience in general industry - waste management/disposal and heavy trucking; work experience in maritime ship repair involving both aircraft carriers, submarines and shipyard craft (tug boat, log-broncs, passenger-carriers); as well as in all forms of construction - commercial, industrial, residential, barracks, weapons handling, etc.

In my chosen occupation I feel I have accomplished something special if every individual working on, supplying on or visiting on my job site goes home after an 8 or 12-hr shift in the same or better condition then they came to work. I do not like accidents and feel if one occurs on my site I did something wrong. So to be a good safety person one needs to walk-around their project site and ensure there are safe access to and from all work site, all ladders are properly setup and used, fall protection measures are in place to ensure no one hit ground, scaffolds are erected properly and inspected daily, proper shoring is in place on all excavations. Lastly that everyone on my site is in the proper PPE for the site.

I'd rather yell and scream at workers to do it right then to tell family members their loved one will not be home. I have done that enough in my career.
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Frank’s Answer

Hello Materson T Students from Honolulu Hawii. Thanks for your questions. Let me tell you I love everything about my job as a TESOL Teacher. There isnt anything I dont like about my job as a TESOL Teacher. What do you think your teachers do everyday? Well thats what I do too. I have fun and I help my students get excited about learning and practicing skills to help all them students get jobs. As your going into construction business I shall explain how I thing you should move forward. Please read below in the "Suggested Next Steps" Good luck and please send more specific question to TESOL Teacher Frank.

Frank recommends the following next steps:

Get excited about your career path and study construction books at the local library.
Find 4 other friends to help you so that now a team of 5. You work on brainstorming ideas together.
Go to your computers and study the Hashtags ###### construction job jobsearch read the stories and make comments. Find jobs and apply straight away for the one that sounds the best.
Go to construction sites in your town and ask if you can get an apprenticeship or traineeship.
Write back to TESOL Teacher Frank and tell about your experiences and ask more questions. Good Luck Materson T and your friends.
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Zeeshan’s Answer

Hi Materson

Its a very nice and interactive questioned you have posted

I work as a travel consultant in a big reputable firm

What i like about my job : I help people meet their travel needs and that what makes me happy

What i dislike about my job : Honestly i just hate traffic on the way back home, there is nothing that i dislike about my job

What do i do on daily basis : I do planning for both my short term and long term and invest time to execute them on daily basis

Kind Regards
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Arun’s Answer

Hi Materson,

I would like to share few reminiscences of my short stint of a career as an electrical site engineer in one of the renowned construction company in our Country (India).

What do/did I like about the job?
a) Practical knowledge - excellent opportunity to practice few (if not all) of the concepts, math, statistics, etc on field
b) Collaboration - work hand in hand with other folks like Civil engineers, Mechanical engineers (plumbing teams), Masons etc
c) Improvisation - you come across unique challenges day in & day out and this provides an excellent opportunity to improvise and better ourselves as a continuous process

What do/did I not like about the job?
a) Hygiene - the construction sites are unhygienic and there are chances of contracting contagious infections
b) Physically demanding - this is not a typical office job where you sit in an office chair under the AC for 9 hours and logout. You need to keep on wandering across the site (especially when there are multiple towers/blocks of buildings in the project site). I remember i had days where i was not even able to sit for few minutes.
c) Risk factor - since the construction sites are dynamic with heavy equipment, live power lines, over head debris, etc you never know what might happen to you or your colleagues on site and hence it requires 100% alertness while carrying out the job

What do/did I do on a daily basis?
a) Making sure the work quality is adhering to the Quality control factors mentioned in the work order.
b) Warehouse management - you need to take stock of the working materials on a regular basis and need to make sure you have healthy supply of materials and tools at all time. Maintaining a ledger with valid bills for every purchase made or else you would be in trouble during the audit.
c) Workforce Management - Making sure you have sufficient workforce each day, attendance, checking the safety of the employees (whether they are wearing the helmets, have safety shoes, jacket etc)
d) Drawing Analysis, Giving proper instructions to the employees, making sure the drawings are accurate before starting the work, proper placement of conduits & cables, electrical boxes, junction boxes before & during the concrete laying process.
e) Checklist of the work progress etc

I hope you find these points useful.

Thanks & Regards,
Arun S
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