I have worked in the highway and bridge construction business for 37 years. Fours years with a contractor and then the last 33 with a civil engineering consultant firm. We manage projects for FDOT, cities, counties and or airports. I worked my way up from the bottom to project engineer and then went on into corporate as a QA/QC manager for services in the all of Florida and some of the southeast. In the state of Florida they created a program back in the 90's that has classes and exams that certifies individuals to be inspection staff on projects. It is a requirement to be approved to work on the projects. In 2006 I was approved by the state as an instructor in the categories of asphalt, concrete, earthwork, and QC Manager for the program and got our firm approved to be a provider of the classes and administer the exams. Last year when I turned 62. I opted to step back to a lesser position, cut back to three days a week and call it semi-retirement. I went back from corporate management to the project level. Currently I am billable to a city project 8 hours a week and a country contract with many projects for the other two days. I essentially track quantities completed and approved for payment to the contractor, a bean counter. I also still administer exams and teach an occasional class. I think I will fully retire at 65 and only teach an occasional class for something to do. I like passing on all I have learned over the years to the younger folks too.

 

Good morning all. I am headed to the links. I am playing Green Valley today and it will be my first time there. Everyone ride safe.

 

Mornin, Woods.

 

watching inaccurate news for my sunday......

 

Morning gents!

 

yup, still is morning .....''gents'' is a stretch thou

 

Mornin, Bill and Bob.

 

Morning Mick, Bill, and Jeff. TOAK is off to a slow start this morning.

 

Must be all the late night partying by this wild bunch....

 

G'Morning, Woods....still home. Have a christening to go to and party afterwards. I won't be staying long. Having a really rough day, been up since 3:30 with bladder in overdrive, Weebles making an appearance, BP through the roof. Seems like I regressed 4 months today. I really don't want to be around people and I'll be heading back to the lake as soon as I can. On the positive side, I had a whole bunch of boxes and envelopes of puppy and fishing stuff waiting for me when I got home yesterday.