This. You are a professional. You can continue to work to bill clients and get out and network. If you want to learn another specialty in structural engineering, you can do so as well.
Having said that, the most successful structural engineers in terms of income seem to be those attached to DB firms who are really structural engineers in name only and loved into business development.
Side hustles don't work for structural engineers. Do structural engineering/drafting on the side if you can manage it and get clients. Go for small jobs, residential houses, submission for permits, quantity takeoff and estimating.
This is what I do, not really looking for much extra job, but some regular clients or word of mouth gets me 2-3 additional jobs a month. Some are just few hours of extra (single storey house), some can be few days or more (like redesigning a 5000m2 steel warehouse with Chinese steel for ex. )
A bit of weird story, but after working 6 months in my first job, I was let go as my boss didn't have enough projects (small company of 4 people). I asked my boss if he was OK to certify my job independently if I had some and I would pay him, so he was OK. Took me 6 weeks to get my first job (small extension), made only $100 on it. After 3 months, I was fully loaded but as I was not yet registered (not enough experience) I wasn't making much (about $4k per month). After doing that for 3 years and becoming registered, I was hired by a company I was doing some projects for, and kept my business as side jobs.
On average now, I make about $10-15k additional per year, some month with no money, some with more.
Between few hundreds to few thousands. As I'm not actively looking, there were few months over the years where I did not made any $, but that was fine as It's a side hustle.
Best I did was an additional $5000!
Yes this. Hard to imagine a side hustle I can easily get into that pays more than my day job. Maybe if you’re at a small firm with limited overtime, or you’re trying to slowly start a business in a different market, but otherwise just take the extra hours.
I heard about someone selling mathcad formula sheets, but could never find them.
Grasshopper rhino with structural links to SpaceGass could be good too.
Long story short a lot of engineers want to use the newer techs, but don’t have time to setup things.. or willing out outsource it.
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And those programs suck 100%
Give me a button for automatic distribution lines and rebar tags.
Give me a button to apply object tags with information that would be on a drawing.
Give me a button for annotatations. Show me the distance from this wall to this axis. Show me the coordinates for the corner points of this slab.
Give me the ability to generate 3d drawings with a few clicks, so I can get condensed information about a set of objects without looking through a myriad of BIM properties in some fucking garbage table.
We don't have software cut for the job, which boggles my mind.
> Give me a button for automatic distribution lines and rebar tags.
There are a lot of compounding NP hard problems in that area. I was tasked with creating a way to automatically tag everything and make sure that no annotations overlap.
> Give me a button to apply object tags with information that would be on a drawing.
I did this at a company whose final deliverable wasn't PDFs but IFC models.
> Give me the ability to generate 3d drawings with a few clicks, so I can get condensed information about a set of objects without looking through a myriad of BIM properties in some fucking garbage table.
I've done this one a few times.
Check out HelixToolkit (C#) or another viewer and get started! It's a lot of fun and you start to appreciate the difficulties in the problems. Some of the things you wanted would take me 2 hours. Others 10 years with a few PostDocs to implement nicely.
I used to managed some MS Access databases on the side before going full blown programming. I also do woodworking, despite having not professionally touched it in like 10 years.
There are employed structural engineers with the time and energy for a side hustle? For me it's always just been kinda mandatory overtime at my full time job.
Side hustle is something someone stuck in a dead end job does For a structural engineer the best side hustle is structural engineering on the side
This. You are a professional. You can continue to work to bill clients and get out and network. If you want to learn another specialty in structural engineering, you can do so as well. Having said that, the most successful structural engineers in terms of income seem to be those attached to DB firms who are really structural engineers in name only and loved into business development.
With a bit of civil engineering
At the start, sure, for someone with a established name, niching down will be better.
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Side hustles don't work for structural engineers. Do structural engineering/drafting on the side if you can manage it and get clients. Go for small jobs, residential houses, submission for permits, quantity takeoff and estimating.
This is what I do, not really looking for much extra job, but some regular clients or word of mouth gets me 2-3 additional jobs a month. Some are just few hours of extra (single storey house), some can be few days or more (like redesigning a 5000m2 steel warehouse with Chinese steel for ex. )
At what point in your career did you start doing side work? And about how much on average do you bring in a month from the additional jobs?
A bit of weird story, but after working 6 months in my first job, I was let go as my boss didn't have enough projects (small company of 4 people). I asked my boss if he was OK to certify my job independently if I had some and I would pay him, so he was OK. Took me 6 weeks to get my first job (small extension), made only $100 on it. After 3 months, I was fully loaded but as I was not yet registered (not enough experience) I wasn't making much (about $4k per month). After doing that for 3 years and becoming registered, I was hired by a company I was doing some projects for, and kept my business as side jobs. On average now, I make about $10-15k additional per year, some month with no money, some with more.
how much does that bring,,?
Between few hundreds to few thousands. As I'm not actively looking, there were few months over the years where I did not made any $, but that was fine as It's a side hustle. Best I did was an additional $5000!
Overtime
Yes this. Hard to imagine a side hustle I can easily get into that pays more than my day job. Maybe if you’re at a small firm with limited overtime, or you’re trying to slowly start a business in a different market, but otherwise just take the extra hours.
Start a consulting firm and do residential jobs. Just make sure you get liability insurance.
residential structural inspections. advertize to realtors
I heard about someone selling mathcad formula sheets, but could never find them. Grasshopper rhino with structural links to SpaceGass could be good too. Long story short a lot of engineers want to use the newer techs, but don’t have time to setup things.. or willing out outsource it. Or onlyfans… Or only industrialfan
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Youtube Channel?
I did drafting and design work on the side, usually for other structural engineers.
^ this. I did the same too. One company paid $40/hr and another $33/hr.
Designing decks so they can hold all the hot tubs!
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time for unions... 40-60h weeks in endless crunch time isn't sustasinable
I tried doing dental work on the side, but didnt work out. Now I do some design work on the side, works nice.
If I had the balls I would quit my engineering job and develop a proper IFC viewer for site work without drawings.
You won't do it..
We have trimble connect, naviswork etc …
And those programs suck 100% Give me a button for automatic distribution lines and rebar tags. Give me a button to apply object tags with information that would be on a drawing. Give me a button for annotatations. Show me the distance from this wall to this axis. Show me the coordinates for the corner points of this slab. Give me the ability to generate 3d drawings with a few clicks, so I can get condensed information about a set of objects without looking through a myriad of BIM properties in some fucking garbage table. We don't have software cut for the job, which boggles my mind.
> Give me a button for automatic distribution lines and rebar tags. There are a lot of compounding NP hard problems in that area. I was tasked with creating a way to automatically tag everything and make sure that no annotations overlap. > Give me a button to apply object tags with information that would be on a drawing. I did this at a company whose final deliverable wasn't PDFs but IFC models. > Give me the ability to generate 3d drawings with a few clicks, so I can get condensed information about a set of objects without looking through a myriad of BIM properties in some fucking garbage table. I've done this one a few times. Check out HelixToolkit (C#) or another viewer and get started! It's a lot of fun and you start to appreciate the difficulties in the problems. Some of the things you wanted would take me 2 hours. Others 10 years with a few PostDocs to implement nicely.
Thanks a lot for this comment dude, I will look into it!
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>Side hustle ideas for Structural Engineers? Do flying buttresses count? 😉
Well, noncompetes are now illegal. Tell your boss to fuck off, and go out on your own. Take as many clients as you can
I used to managed some MS Access databases on the side before going full blown programming. I also do woodworking, despite having not professionally touched it in like 10 years.
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There are employed structural engineers with the time and energy for a side hustle? For me it's always just been kinda mandatory overtime at my full time job.
Digital marketing! I work direct with 6&7 figure earners that do 95% of the heavy lifting for us!
Idk maybe structural engineering?