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>> My name is Laurie Eilers [phonetic], and I
am a Consulting Engineer, and what I do is I go

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around and work for different
companies that will hire me,

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who might need some additional
engineering advice.

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My background is mechanical
engineering, And I'll work with companies,

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out of state companies --
I work out of Florida --

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or in-state companies that just might need
a little extra consulting or some managerial

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for the consultants they already have, and
I work on all kinds of different projects.

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My background, real background in
engineering is petroleum engineering.

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I'm doing mechanical now because we don't
have a lot of petroleum reservoirs in oil

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and gas in Florida, so when I moved back there,
I kind of had to switch it up a little bit.

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My degree is in Mechanical Engineering
so it was a nice, it was easy transition.

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I work on projects like, I
just finished doing a project

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with the airport: they were
doing a new terminal.

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And so an out-of-state company out of
California came in and hired a lot of engineers.

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I like to have the leeway to be able to be
able to pick my own hours and to have a little,

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you know, work wiggle room with that so,

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consulting works well for
us, so that's what I do.

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When you do consulting, you
don't always have to do site.

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I do a lot of work at home, which is nice.

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A lot of computer work.

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A busy day for me would be getting my morning
work done, maybe having to meet with a client,

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maybe walk a site -- sometimes
it gets super hot in Florida,

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so if you're doing something outside;
walk the site, hard hat, steel-toed shoes,

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the whole nine yards -- do a visit report
after that and then a presentation, probably,

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to whoever is in town on budgeting.

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You know everybody has their
own report they have to do;

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mine would be on the engineering side.

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Have to get with the other engineers
to make sure it's done together.

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Sometimes, because they're only in
town for a limited amount of time,

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you're there until eight
or nine o' clock at night.

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That would be a busy day.