<p><div class="text-justify">Hello there! My name is Alegna from Latin America and I have a whole story to share about my profession: Civil Engineering.👷🏻‍♀️</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">I met this career for the first time through a motivational book when I was at the final year of high school and it was the time to choose what I'm fond of. Moreover of architecture, I always loved basic sciences like maths, chemistry and physics because my dad is engineur too, I've chosen this one because it was also available at the university of my city.📐</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">College time was so great and fun, I've met so much friends and interesting people during this period of five years. I went to a pair of civil engineering congresses (in Mérida and Maracaibo) and I have gained more knowledge, moreover of fun by visiting these cities.🏙️</div></p>

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Plus, I also made technicals visits to large constructions during my college time, such as the third bridge over the Orinoco River and the Tocoma's dam, both carried out by important companies.🌉</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">I'm graduated since almost 2012 and few months later I got my first job in a cotton company where I got some experience in inspections of wire houses' constructions and an urbanism for an industrial complex of cotton's processing. Everything was like a school to me. I've learned so much and met this lovely career so close with other important things.🏗️</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">Over there I had the opportunity to design from scratch a firemen station, which was required to provide that space to the hometown where this company is located (https://w3w.co/tardó.reparos.medianos). I based in venezuelan codes to take in count several factors in order to obtain a great design, so this was a real challenge for me as engineer at that time.📋</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">There were too many funny moments because I've shared a lot with other pals because we were foreign professionals that had to travel every week from our city through a long highway to reach another hometown, then cross a wider part of the Orinoco river and finally arrive at the cotton company. Average time of entire traveling: at least 5 hours two times a week.⏱️</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">So, we've been living in residential houses with general dining room for meals. At free time, we used to gather and talk a lot with other partners or the guards at the company's gate, have a walk at the campus or hanging out to the hometown, make exercises, watch movies... even to have and enjoy with pets over there during the job's journey as you can see at the next picture.🐶</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">I shared an office with a female partner which is a good friend of mine graduated with me at the same college's ceremony, so we made a lot of inspections, analysis and designs. And good memories.😌</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">Unfortunately, constructions has stopped since economic crisis in Venezuela has reached the worst point, from 2014. And my salary wasn't good enough from now on. So, I decided to find an alternative to carry out my career despite of all this, then I've discovered the term freelancing for the first time and created my <a href="https://www.behance.net/alegnita">portfolio</a> and profiles in several online platforms. I'm not already at the cotton company since last year and now I'm working by myself as professional and artistical
<a href="https://www.fiverr.com/alegnita">freelancer.</a>😇</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">My main goal regarding to the career is to study a master degree of railway's design because I love trains. I think they're the key for the huge economic development of any location. So, I hope to do great things once I've the knowledge about this topic and apply it in my country for instance. It needs this so much as undeveloped nation.🚆</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">For those ones who wants to join to this interesting engineering world of construction, I have some advices they can take in count during their careers:</div></p>

<p><div class="text-justify">🔹The main enemies of this profession is time and water. Why? Well, time means money, if there's any sort of delaying on several tasks to develop a construction, then there's more wasting of the always limited resources like this important factor: the money. And why water? Rainy climate makes activities slower, specially at the open campus. Schedule carefully the construction as was planned, taking in count the seasons dates and avoid delays as much as you can.💦</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">🔹Make sure good quality of materials in order to avoid future problems related with structural behavior. During the test with Abrams' cone for instance, pay attention to the fluidity of concrete meanwhile is still in fresh status. It's important to consider carefully the statements from codes: how to carry out the process to put three layers, to hit each one 25 times, the bar must be the proper one, etc.⚙️</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">🔹Don't widely trust on the contractor no matter what: they can be good in tricks with numbers during measuring of construction's advance. This is Mr. Narváez and I was very close to his calculations in order to approve his valuations. A good communication would be useful to avoid misunderstandings.📢</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">🔹Keeping talking about trusting, please make a report for every single aspect because words could be taken away by the wind, says the saying. I'm serious: it's your word against other's. Let's play a little game by asking you what's the obvious difference between these photographs, look at them carefully. Yes... my condition to compact the soil is to use the machine instead of that inefficient instrument that disappeared magically in one of the shots (contractor forgot to erase the original picture when he sent me the folder of files). Then, I want to take the opportunity to mention that is so important to be present at the construction's site to make a good inspection and see what the hell are they doing over there. If there's something wrong, trust in your criteria and tell it with a pen to make them to sign your technical report.😂</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">🔹And, before signing any report, valuation or design made by others that requires your approvement, read and analyze it carefully, unless you want to lose your license and go to jail (don't worry, it depends from the case). If you're having doubts, there's always someone you can trust and feel free to ask what to do.😉</div></p>

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<p><div class="text-justify">I think that's all I can tell about my profession, maybe I forgot other aspects, but I believe this post is good enough for the contest, thanks for reading.🤓</div></p>

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<p><center>👷🏻‍♀️>>~•Alegn@•~>🎶</center></p>

<p><center>*** See you in next post *** 📝</center></p>