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After almost fifteen years experience in Greek civil engineering industry, I have realized that in my country the employers' common approach of how to deliver projects is this: utilize the as minimum as possible employees in order to get the job done even though that means sacrificing organization & quality, increasing project risks, etc.. From the civil engineers' (employees) aspect that leads to exposure to every task of the full life cycle of projects which makes the job more interesting but each task is less organized because you have to find the shorter in time way to complete a task in order to deal timely with the other tasks...and the diversity of each task makes things harder...there is never enough time to make a detailed approach for each task you're dealing with and your managers don't expect you to do so, they even discourage you to do so..."just get it done- we don't have time for "details"- do and the other thing- and we'll see what will happen"... But, concerning the global civil engineering market in which as far as I can identify specialization is a must, am I competitive? I mean, what am I considered to be as a professional? am I a planning/ scheduling engineer with no work experience in e.g. primavera? am I a construction manager? a project control engineer? a quality control engineer? a procurement engineer? a designer? a commercial manager? a project manager? a cost control engineer? an operations manager? a supervisor? a site engineer? a contract administrator? a foreman? a quantity surveyor? ...or neither of them?... and this is my question: do you think I should find ways (against my current environment) to become specialized in a specific subject in order to be competitive in the global industry? or this multi-skilled/ fast paced/ less organized/ less specialized environment could actually be considered as an advantage for me?
