My employer will hire high school grads and provide the training to do CE Tech work, but we require a CE degree to be an Asst Project Engineer and expect them to get licensed to be a Project Engineer.
As for math, I'm liscensed but the most I do is add, subtract, multiply and divide with a smidgen of algebra once in a while. Calc and diffy q were not my strong points
. I told my adviser that D was for diploma in diify q. As for sitting in an office every day, I work for a local highway authority and our engineers design road projects in the winter and supervise the construction in the summer. Best of both worlds - inside during winter, outside during the summer. Always paperwork to do in the AC if it's too hot
Do like I told TD-8, find a local Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, go to a couple meetings and talk with a few civils. Ask if you can visit them at work. My boss & I get calls from prospective civils and we've never turned one away from visiting our offices.
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