• Question: What made you want to be an engineer? and At what age did you decide to do this?

    Asked by 534trnb26 to Pete on 10 Mar 2015.
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      Peter Roskilly answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Nice question.
      I’ll answer in reverse.

      I changed career late in life. I went back to University to get a Civil Engineering degree in my late twenties. After qualifying I got my Graduate Job in my Early thirties.

      Why I chose Civil Engineering and why I changed careers amount to the same thing. I really disliked my old job, I worked in administration at a bank. I couldn’t see any future in it and it gave me no satisfaction. So I started thinking seriously about what I wanted to do for the first time in my life (I left it a bit late).
      I liked science, but I liked applying science to make and do things. Rather than researching and investigating things like a Scientist does I wanted to improve the world around me. This lead me to the construction industry.
      I didn’t fancy building skyscrapers etc, don’t really see the point in a kilometre high building. I did however like the idea of improving infrastructure (like roads, bridges and railways).
      So I studied Civil Engineering and got a job in Infrastructure Design.

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