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No they flat out said they wanted real world experince in specificly Civil Drafting. Seemed like a stuckup place to work anyway. Everyone in ties and slacks. Seeings how I own one button up shirt (Which I wore to the interview) I don't think I would try that hard.

Civil Drafting sucks anyway. Waaaay to much emphisise on getting all your distances correct and having nothing but a copy of a copy of some surveyors map made in the 1920s to go by.

If you see at least the engineers in button up shirts and no ties then it may be ok. They are the first to balk at a restrictive dress policy (because they are out in the field a lot) but tend to never dress down much more than that either.

If you got the balls to do it and the confidence in your speed and accuracy in drafting, find a small engineering firm, let them give you an average pay wage if you have to, then blow their minds at how fast and accurate you are and then ask for a pay hike every 3 months or so. They will have to give it to you if they want to keep you. Keep in mind you will have to judge the bosses character as well as the engineers though. The boss will tend to be willing to recycle you for a new newbie drafter but the engineers will blow a gasket if he tries, if you are good enough to impress them. It's not to hard to either. ****** drafters are a dime a dozen. I went from 9 dollars an hour to 25 dollars an hour in a little less than 2 years doing this before I went out on my own as an EIT.

Edited, Fri Jul 23 19:13:27 2004 by GitSlayer

I suppose I'm very lucky. I'm smack in the middle of England so have beautiful countryside all around, good walking and climbing within an hour's drive, some of the best castles in the world to explore, but it's only a 2-3 hr drive to the ferry.

Paris is another 2 hrs if I want to go that far, but usually I just check into an auberge in Normandy and shoot the breeze with the locals.

Plus the booze is half the price in France as in England.

Dang! I just remembered I missed the milk carton boat races. Crap.

Yup, we have them every summer as part of the Aquatennial festivities. The fun, of course, is in watching most of the contestants sink in under 30 seconds.