21/05/2026
Civil Engineering is very deep and wide. Very deep.
In Civil Engineering, we studied Engineering Management and Project Management. These are not small courses. They are broad, practical, and detailed.
Inside these courses, we learned Materials Management.
One of the principles of materials management is this:
Any unused material must be properly packed, arranged, protected, and kept safely for the next operation where it will be needed.
As a site engineer, if you see materials scattered carelessly on site, it is your responsibility to instruct someone to arrange them properly. And if it is something you can pack yourself, pack it.
Many younger engineers overlook these things.
Some even say:
“They are not paying me well.”
“The working condition is not favorable.”
Then they intentionally ignore important site responsibilities.
But let me tell you something my mother taught us when we were young:
“The same way you do another person’s work is the same way you will do your own work tomorrow.”
You are training yourself every single day.
Whether you are doing good or bad, you are programming yourself.
When you work carelessly for somebody today, you are indirectly rehearsing failure for your own future projects.
When you work with discipline today, you are preparing yourself for excellence tomorrow.
You are not only working for salary.
You are training yourself to become a better contractor, consultant, builder, and engineer in the future.
As an engineer, you do not have any excuse to see something wrong on site and ignore it.
That is not professionalism.
That is not engineering responsibility.
That is not the oath and discipline of the profession.
Engineers are problem solvers.
Even if somebody was assigned to do something and refused to do it, if you can fix it, fix it.
Train yourself properly now.
Because one day, when you start handling your own projects, the habits you built today will control the quality of your work automatically.
If you continue doing people’s work anyhow, your own work will also be done anyhow in the future.
Civil Engineering is deep.
Very deep.
And the deeper you understand responsibility, discipline, management, coordination, and practical ex*****on, the more valuable you become on site.
If I see a nail on the formwork, my personality will not allow me to overlook it. That is who I am. That is how I trained myself.
Up civil !
