What Civil Engineer do in free time?

Free time of Civil Engineer:

As a civil engineer, you should be very particular with your free time. In this article, we will study some free time activities for a civil engineer. With my own experience I will assure you that, these free time activities for a civil engineer will boost your professional success. Following are the best practiced free time activities for a civil engineer:

WHAT CIVIL ENGINEER DO IN FREE TIME?

A. Watching Civil Engineering Documentaries:

As a professional civil engineer one should always collect field related old and new knowledge. A civil engineer should watch a documentary like National Geographic Mega-structures.

EXAMPLE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING DOCUMENTARY

How Watching Documentary helps Civil Engineer?

Watching documentary will improve your professional thinking, introduction and updates of new ideas. These thinking process and ideas may change you professional life.

B. Playing Games:

Let it be clear, I am not talking about mobile games or game genres like, Battle Royale, Action-adventure,Racing. Civil Engineer should play game genres like, Real-time strategy, Simulator. In my opinion Cities Skylines is the best game for civil engineers.

TOP 5 GAMES FOR CIVIL ENGINEER

How Playing games helps Civil Engineer?

As a civil engineer if you play games like Cities Skylines, you will mostly try to implement your technical knowledge in game and such games gives you a real-time outputs of your decisions in game. This will help you to improve your decision taking power, resource management skills.

C. Reading:

I know,  you will say that, reading book is boring stuff. But the fact is that, most of the successful authors, directors, engineers, actors or any professional person read books. Here, I am not only talking about professional books like building constructions, building drawings, estimate and valuations but also books like Rich Dad Poor Dad.

TOP 4 BOOKS FOR BUILDING PLANNING

How Reading helps Civil Engineer?

No matter how much Youtube videos, documentaries you watch; reading book is much more effective. Because, most of the time successful movie, idea, concept is based on a book. So, reading book will improve your thinking, creativity, new ideas, clear basic concepts.

D. Spending Time with Family:

I just don't need to explain how we are working for money and career. Question yourself: "For whom I'm doing this?" without doubt answer will be you and your family. So, it is very important to spend some relaxing time with your family. Just talk with them. Trust me, it will always boost your energy. And now, I don't need to explain that: how spending time with family helps civil engineer.

SPENDING TIME WITH FAMILY


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