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Hey everyone,

I’m interested in getting into construction estimating as a long-term career and wanted to get some advice from people already in the industry.

I’m 20 years old and currently have about 2 years of experience working in construction— specifically, commercial roofing. I’ve worked both in a service department and production environment doing commercial reroof projects. On the service side, my experience includes leak investigations, maintenance/repairs, inspections, flashing work, and working with different roof systems including SBS, TPO, PVC, EPDM, on flat and pitched roof systems.

On the production side, I’ve worked for about a year, doing various types of full flat reroof projects on commercial size buildings. Mainly traditional built up, and tar and gravel, probably about 1500 squares total (150,000 square feet) across various job sites.

I feel like I enjoy the planning/problem solving side of construction more than just the physical labor side long term. I’m also pretty strong with math and numbers, which is what originally got me interested in estimating.

Right now I’m trying to figure out the best path into becoming a construction estimator (not necessarily only roofing — potentially general construction/commercial projects eventually).

For people already in estimating:

How did you get into the field?

Would my roofing experience help me get into a junior estimator/project coordinator role?

Is college worth it for estimating/project management? If so, what programs would you recommend? Civil Engineering Technology? Construction Engineering Technician? Something else?

Or would you recommend trying to get into the industry directly and learning on the job first?
I’d appreciate any advice from people already working as estimators or project managers, especially in commercial construction.
Thanks.

Hey everyone,

I’m interested in getting into construction estimating as a long-term career and wanted to get some advice from people already in the industry.

I’m 20 years old and currently have about 2 years of experience working in construction— specifically, commercial roofing. I’ve worked both in a service department and production environment doing commercial reroof projects. On the service side, my experience includes leak investigations, maintenance/repairs, inspections, flashing work, and working with different roof systems including SBS, TPO, PVC, EPDM, on flat and pitched roof systems.

On the production side, I’ve worked for about a year, doing various types of full flat reroof projects on commercial size buildings. Mainly traditional built up, and tar and gravel, probably about 1500 squares total (150,000 square feet) across various job sites.

I feel like I enjoy the planning/problem solving side of construction more than just the physical labor side long term. I’m also pretty strong with math and numbers, which is what originally got me interested in estimating.

Right now I’m trying to figure out the best path into becoming a construction estimator (not necessarily only roofing — potentially general construction/commercial projects eventually).

For people already in estimating:

How did you get into the field?

Would my roofing experience help me get into a junior estimator/project coordinator role?

Is college worth it for estimating/project management? If so, what programs would you recommend? Civil Engineering Technology? Construction Engineering Technician? Something else?

Or would you recommend trying to get into the industry directly and learning on the job first?
I’d appreciate any advice from people already working as estimators or project managers, especially in commercial construction.
Thanks.

Hey everyone,

I’m interested in getting into construction estimating as a long-term career and wanted to get some advice from people already in the industry.

I’m 20 years old and currently have about 2 years of experience working in construction— specifically, commercial roofing. I’ve worked both in a service department and production environment doing commercial reroof projects. On the service side, my experience includes leak investigations, maintenance/repairs, inspections, flashing work, and working with different roof systems including SBS, TPO, PVC, EPDM, on flat and pitched roof systems.

On the production side, I’ve worked for about a year, doing various types of full flat reroof projects on commercial size buildings. Mainly traditional built up, and tar and gravel, probably about 1500 squares total (150,000 square feet) across various job sites.

I feel like I enjoy the planning/problem solving side of construction more than just the physical labor side long term. I’m also pretty strong with math and numbers, which is what originally got me interested in estimating.

Right now I’m trying to figure out the best path into becoming a construction estimator (not necessarily only roofing — potentially general construction/commercial projects eventually).

For people already in estimating:

How did you get into the field?

Would my roofing experience help me get into a junior estimator/project coordinator role?

Is college worth it for estimating/project management? If so, what programs would you recommend? Civil Engineering Technology? Construction Engineering Technician? Something else?

Or would you recommend trying to get into the industry directly and learning on the job first?
I’d appreciate any advice from people already working as estimators or project managers, especially in commercial construction.
Thanks.

20M have been seeing a girl over the last couple weeks. There has been two times now that we try to have sex but I end up going too soft for penetration during or soon after putting the condom on.

We do lots of foreplay ie cuddling and watching a movie, kissing, oral and hand stuff as things escalate, even sensual massages sometimes and I’m usually rock hard during all of this even just when cuddling. However when we want to have sex I get up to put a condom on and I just end up losing the majority of my erection almost instantly as I get back to the bed.

For more context, I am a pretty healthy person in my diet and exercise as I am an athlete. I am on the larger size so I tried out the magnum xl size condom though it does feel slightly tight. This is also only the second person I have had sex with before. Or attempted in this case. I also have been taking 5mg cialis daily as it appealed to me for its benefits in exercise/working out and that the blood flow boost is supposed to help out with erection quality.

(20m) I’m doing a 4day of resistance training split so I opted for U/L. I am new to the gym and below are my two upper days. Any advice in terms of the exercises chosen/missing or volume for certain muscles.

UPPER 1

Incline Dumbbell Bench Press

4 sets × 6 reps

Chest Supported Row (Neutral Grip for lats)

4 sets × 8 reps

Lat Pulldown (Cable- wide grip)

3 sets × 10 reps

Chest Fly (machine)

3 sets × 12 reps

Lateral Raise (Cable)

3 sets × 10 reps

Reverse Fly (Machine)

3 sets × 12 reps

Preacher Curl (Barbell-Ez bar)

4 sets × 8 reps

Triceps Pushdown (V bar)

3 sets × 10 reps

UPPER 2

Chest Supported Row (Wide Grip, Flared Elbows)

3 sets × 8 reps

Chest Press (Machine)

3 sets × 6 reps

Lat Pulldown (Close Grip)

3 sets × 10 reps

Smith Machine Shoulder Press

3 sets × 8 reps

JM Press

3 sets × 8 reps

Lateral Raise (Cable)

3 sets × 10 reps

Incline Dumbbell Curl

4 sets × 10 reps