New Job!

[ysidfa]

Some of you may know Ive been an apprentice for the last 3 years and ive had some rough times (company messing me around with NVQ courses and college, collegues bullying and giving me slave work ect.)
After copious hours of searching I found the new job Ive been looking for! A Trainee CAD (Computer Aided Design) Technition for a Civil Engineering company called Waldeck Engineering!
3 years of corporate on job training and a Lv4 qualification in CAD and a Lv3 in Civil Engineering!
First years pay is a small drop on what I earn at the moment, but it shoots up after that!

The reason for this thread is I have a few questions I want to ask anyone whos in the Civil Engineering trade or knows about CAD environments

1. Whats a CAD/CE environment like to work in? Is it a standard office job, working alone long hours ect, or will it be working as a team and collaborating?

2. Is it worth me buying a high-spec desktop and a copy of AutoDesk and learning off my own back aswell as at work?

3. Anyone had any decent experience with AutoDesk/AutoCad and/or Revvit? (Ive only ever used SolidWorks at college on £11k mega spec PCs that can run 1080p simulations at 200fps+)

Last day of current job is today.. Guess what.... Ive got to buy the doughnuts

Tom

 

[scout]

Last day of current job is today.. Guess what.... Ive got to buy the doughnuts

Tom

Why? What are they going to do if you don't?

They can't sack you or withhold your pay and if they have treated you as bad as you say then why would you want to?

 

[sludgeguts]

Eye drops make fantastic laxatives :devil:

 

[Rigby]

Congratulations! Remember you saying a while back about what they were doing. Good to see someone getting a job doing what they enjoy!

I had a year spell with CAD, awesome to use once you understand the basics.

 

[Eklipze3k]

Glad to hear you're on the up