In fact, consultation and construction are two different directions, each with its own advantages, and there is no more perfect problem.
Then I will simply talk about the difference between construction and consultation one by one.
Before I explain, I want to explain a macro point, that is, the cost industry or engineering industry is based on practice, not theory, and its characteristic is that practice produces true knowledge.
If you don't have a good first degree, junior college or even high school, and want to engage in the engineering industry, do you want to go to junior college? My suggestion is that it is not necessary. A few years from college to undergraduate is enough for you to learn a lot of practical skills in practical work, but what you learned in undergraduate is really of little use, with all due respect. First of all, the knowledge of the engineering industry and the cost industry is updated quickly and changing with each passing day, especially in the cost industry. This knowledge will change frequently, of course, the big framework will not change, but the details will always change, and what our cost industry values most is the details. Nature is the detail. If you don't notice anything, he will. Then this is a trial reduction. Big things, such as reinforced concrete, are all calculated by software. As long as your drawing level is not bad, there won't be much difference.
On the other hand, you have been studying hard for several years after you graduated from college. When I came out, I found that the software was updated and the number of places on the list was changed. Then you're not depressed. I've wasted a few years, so why bother?
One of my high school classmates, a girl, failed in the college entrance examination. After a few years, she was promoted to junior college, then graduated from university and took the postgraduate exam. After graduation, she found that everyone was reading the first degree, but it was still not easy to find a job, so she had to take another PhD exam. . . .
I just don't understand, what can she learn as a doctor in the engineering cost industry?
After working for ten years, this sister is still at school. God, a 30-year-old is still at school. What does it mean to go to school? Full of knowledge? For that degree? Ten years of youth!
Of course, I'm not denying the significance of going to school. Going to school is the only fair way of competition in this society, but I think it is not a good choice to go to school blindly without looking up at the society.
Let's go back to the cost industry, a very practical discipline, and naturally we have to go to the most basic place for training.
Let's talk about the construction unit first. The biggest advantage of the construction unit is to visit the site in person. Facing the first construction site, we can observe the workers' construction methods, how to construct, how to construct, where there can be more and where there can be less. Where do visa changes need to be done, where do you need video materials, what is the difference between construction and quota, and what is the construction cost of a project? How much worse than the budget quota?
These are real cost experiences, which are very good and valuable.
Moreover, the cost engineer of the construction unit can calculate the engineering quantity to the extreme, because the engineering quantity is real money, and you must dig the drawings and actual construction situation to the end to make money. In addition, it is also bargaining with subcontractors or contractors.
To be honest, this process is very training.
And relatively speaking, the construction unit is not so busy, and the salary is relatively ok. It is also an advantage to have some leisure time to learn some knowledge about cost or construction.
However, the construction unit also has some shortcomings, such as poor working environment and extremely unstable work.
Of course, these are external factors. From the perspective of cost, I think the biggest drawback is that the process time of a project is too long, ranging from two to three years to five or six years.
If you think you have wasted five or six years on a project, the knowledge you can learn about cost is very limited. If you are consulting at the same time, you will be engaged in many projects, and in many cases your experience will progress rapidly. But the construction unit just lets you do the cost work and accumulate experience. Most customers have to work part-time as indoor staff, librarians and sometimes even as technicians and security guards.
Therefore, the progress of the construction unit cost engineer is slow. I'm afraid this is unacceptable to those who are eager for success and want to make a living at cost.
Besides consulting units, the biggest advantage of consulting units is to deeply cultivate the cost industry. In the consulting unit, you will learn how to work out the tender control price, how to work out the construction drawing budget, how to prevent being audited by others, and how to audit others, especially the settlement audit. If you want to do a good job here, you must thoroughly understand the number of places in your province. It doesn't say that you can deduct people's quantities and adjust their comprehensive unit price without any basis.
Therefore, you should know the list quota, laws and regulations, policy documents and even cost appraisal of the cost industry clearly.
In addition, the consulting unit can contact with various projects, various problems and various professional projects, which will make you make great progress in a short time. As mentioned above, the cost industry is a practice that produces true knowledge. Think about it, so many projects will give you practice, so that you can find problems, accumulate problems and solve problems in doing projects. This is a real experience!
I promise, after studying this field, your consulting company life for several years will be better than your college life for several years, believe me!
After all, an armchair strategist feels shallow and doesn't know how to do it.
However, consulting companies also have great disadvantages. Although outsiders seem to be small white-collar workers working in office buildings, the salary of consulting companies is really pitiful. Even after the novice period, it seems that behind your high salary is countless overtime and self-sacrifice time and energy. Moreover, the work of consulting company is very tiring and anxious. They are often anxious when they come to work, and they are always urged when they have a job. When one job was not finished, they came to do another job.
Anyway, I panic every day.
Is it hard for you to finish the rigorous and meticulous work in an anxious atmosphere and ensure the correct rate?
In addition, the disadvantage of consultation is behind closed doors. Often, a cost person who has just started consulting has never been to the construction site, and he doesn't understand the relevant construction technology or even construction materials. It is tantamount to making a budget and making a cost for others. It's quite convenient to share the method of obtaining cost information by training institutions here, just like Baidu's "* * * Cost Sharing Association".
In short, the construction and consulting units have their own advantages and disadvantages, depending on what you think.
Everything is not absolute. I have seen friends of construction units do very well in terms of cost, and I have also seen bosses of consulting companies who have never been to the construction site can solve big problems for construction units.
After all, regardless of construction or cost, technical problems are low-level problems, which can solve non-technical problems that ordinary people can't solve, so they are called high-level problems.
In addition, I strongly recommend blind textual research. A friend inspired me to do the cost, and actually asked me if I wanted to take the second construction certificate. Since you do the cost, take the certificate related to the cost. What are you doing in Erjian? He said it was because everyone else was approaching. . . .
Don't follow blindly! You should have your own opinions, like textual research, and take the exam in combination with your future development and direction. Certificate and career development are complementary things in themselves. If you deviate from the rules, it is definitely not worth the loss.
Of course, this is just an example. It is understandable that you study for the sake of learning knowledge. After all, you can learn more knowledge.
But my point of view is still the same sentence, apply what you have learned, and don't use what you have learned in your mind. What's the point of your promotion? You know everything, read the cost to graduate students, but you can't even calculate the basic engineering quantity, or you can't understand it. What's the point? (It's not made up, it's the female classmate I mentioned above)
Some friends are really good at learning. Within five years, the first-class cost engineer (civil engineering, installation), the first-class constructor (architecture, municipal administration), the supervision engineer and the consulting engineer have all passed the exam, and now they have to take the law exam again.
I admire such a friend, who has strong learning ability, self-discipline and perseverance.
But I especially don't understand this behavior. What can you prove? Prove that you learn from Niu X, prove that you have many certificates, and then what? You know, the benefits of certificates are decreasing!
Personal opinion, blind research, hard research, and a bunch of certificates in your hand can't prove that you are awesome, but only prove that you have no other skills and can only do research. You see which big construction company boss, which enterprise boss desperately textual research every day, people are busy pulling projects, busy socializing, busy formulating company strategy, how can they have time to textual research? It is also such a day that people who are bored and unwilling to be mediocre regard textual research as a career, as diligence, as the spiritual pillar of life, and will give themselves a reason to pass the exam. "You see, I am not a mediocre person, and I still have so many certificates."
Tactical diligence cannot cover up strategic laziness!
We are all ordinary people, so naturally we can't pull projects and socialize like company bosses and corporate bosses. But we can do something to improve our personal ability or level.
I firmly believe that only through learning can we ordinary people bring added value to ourselves and have a chance to fight a turnaround.
Some people will say: if you don't feel that you are opposed to blind textual research, how can you firmly believe that learning can add value? Is it not contradictory? !
I formally believe that learning can bring value-added, so I object to blind textual research!
Textual research is an extremely waste of time and energy, and it is even more impossible to get proof that is contrary to your own planned route. In this case, the cost of your time and energy is far higher than your income.
There are many ways for people to learn. What you do is cost, so it is not good for you to devote your research energy to improving your skills and working ability. It is not good to look at the atlas, study the refined operation of the software, and ponder the relevant policies and regulations on cost.
To say the least, you are very proficient in the cost industry, so it is better for you to study investment, writing, communication, law, parenting education, even media, than to blindly take those meaningless certificates. These things are closely related to your personal work value-added and quality of life improvement. Why not focus on these useful things?
To sum up, if the certificate is not good, you must take the exam. If you do the cost, you should take the first-class cost engineer exam. If it is a work place, it is necessary to take an examination of the builder. If you want to do design, you should take an examination of structural engineers and architects. You do reconnaissance, and then take the geotechnical test!
Take the professional certificate, and the work plan has a positive income certificate! Don't take the rest!
Take your energy out and do something useful!