Consulting Engineer

>> My name is Laurie Eilers [phonetic], and I am a Consulting Engineer, and what I do is I go around and work for different companies that will hire me, who might need some additional engineering advice. My background is mechanical engineering, And I'll work with companies, out of state companies -- I work out of Florida -- or in-state companies that just might need a little extra consulting or some managerial for the consultants they already have, and I work on all kinds of different projects. My background, real background in engineering is petroleum engineering. I'm doing mechanical now because we don't have a lot of petroleum reservoirs in oil and gas in Florida, so when I moved back there, I kind of had to switch it up a little bit. My degree is in Mechanical Engineering so it was a nice, it was easy transition. I work on projects like, I just finished doing a project with the airport: they were doing a new terminal. And so an out-of-state company out of California came in and hired a lot of engineers. I like to have the leeway to be able to be able to pick my own hours and to have a little, you know, work wiggle room with that so, consulting works well for us, so that's what I do. When you do consulting, you don't always have to do site. I do a lot of work at home, which is nice. A lot of computer work. A busy day for me would be getting my morning work done, maybe having to meet with a client, maybe walk a site -- sometimes it gets super hot in Florida, so if you're doing something outside; walk the site, hard hat, steel-toed shoes, the whole nine yards -- do a visit report after that and then a presentation, probably, to whoever is in town on budgeting. You know everybody has their own report they have to do; mine would be on the engineering side. Have to get with the other engineers to make sure it's done together. Sometimes, because they're only in town for a limited amount of time, you're there until eight or nine o' clock at night. That would be a busy day.