MWP

The last thing to probably ever cross my mind is pulling a car with my junk.

Speaking as a person that worked his way up from the field level to my current role as Director/VP in the Pipeline Construction field, I would say a CM degree with a minor in Accounting would give you a definite advantage. Taking Spanish as someone mentioned is a huge plus since that will be your predominant labor pool if you stay in the Gulf South, but my biggest piece of advice would be to try and either intern with a construction company or just just go get a field job in whatever construction element you want to go into. That experience will be invaluable and will give you a huge leg up over some kid that did nothing but earn a degree with no field experience.

After my Plan A goal in life back almost 30 years ago as a career Marine Officer got derailed because of an injury, I was forced to go to Plan B and that was Oil
And Gas. I went out and got hired on as a laborer on a pipeline job over a Summer after the Marines and redirected my school work to get a degree in Management with a minor in Finance. After that, I was hired as an Office Manager on a pipeline mainly because I spent Summers laboring and then operating. Trust me once you get into the PM role, field guys respect the managers that have been there and done that and know what they are going through every day. These days the kids that have PM aspirations are basically interns when they were in college. Very few PM’s in the pipeline construction field that come from college actually spent a ton of time working in the field which is kinda sad and once they graduate, we generally put them right back in the field as what we call Field Engineers or Field Clerks to help the PM over a project do their grunt work. Some might get a little bit more responsibility than just a regular intern by letting them start dabbling in estimating, costing, scheduling, etc…but we aren’t asking a ton out of them till they prove themselves. The ones that are good are the ones that fall under a good PM or a Supt that is willing to take them under their wing so to speak and really teach them. That development will usually put a CE making PM in 5-7 years post graduation.

We get a handful of engineers that for whatever reason decide they want to jump to our side of the fence and do construction but for the most part that is rare. The engineers usually go to work for the gas company or the engineering/design companies or in other words, the client.

1000% agree that doing deads with the hex bar is much more forgiving on your back than doing them with a barbell and you are still getting the same benefits. Not saying barbell deads are bad at all. If you can maintain strict form they are awesome, but as you get older, that margin of error for injury gets smaller. Honestly I wouldn’t consider a barbell deadlift program unless I was a powerlifter.

You need to train shoulders more once you get healed up.

Second Capt. Jason, I went with him several times on the Backlash and his newer boat. I think it’s named the Finest Kind. Great dude that knows that part of the Gulf better than anyone I know. I honestly try to go to Destin only when AJ’s are in season because he has some unreal spots for those donkeys.

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would be pretty shocked (and potentially annoyed) if I shared an expensive pour with someone and they just knocked it back like it was a shot of Jack

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Yep, that is pretty much what I did and that is indeed the reaction I received. I hear about it quite frequently when bourbon shows up at the camp, but my counter was it because it was in celebration of a 4th and 36 TD to beat your biggest rival.

So in a kind of related sort of way, is it acceptable to shoot whiskey? I mean the super expensive bourbon kind. I typically drink good bourbon over ice and for football/camp kick fires I will add Diet Coke but I got literally crucified by my buddies for shooting some very expensive bourbon a few years ago after a big game. I thought it was a legit special occasion reason but it’s like they will not leave me alone if they bring the high end good stuff to camp.

I think he pretty well made his mind up to enter the draft after seeing what the QB class was going to look like this year even though he only got meaningful reps this year. That was a somewhat of a gamble and honestly there wasn’t a ton of pressure to leave but I think it was more of a win for everyone if he entered the draft because of the depth behind him. Both those guys would have hit the portal if he stayed which would have made things interesting this year if Ty got hurt and maybe more interesting in 2027 with little experience behind him. There might have been a little consideration on transferring with the money being thrown at him but at the end of the day, Ty loves Alabama and didn’t want to tarnish that image. Even though there wasn’t a ton of film on him, the film that was out there was legit until the later half of the season when he was injured. That could be explained away to scouts if his workouts looked good once he healed up, which he looked pretty sharp at all of them. Seems like his plan worked to perfection and everyone including Alabama is happy.

Pretty cool that you are working on a ‘76 Bronco. I had a ‘72 when I was way younger and before those things became rolling gold mines. What motor do you have in it? I will be honest, when those old Broncos became so insanely popular and expensive there is a wealth of information on them now.

On topic, I started training jiu jitsu about 20 years ago. We had just had our 2nd kid so making it to class every day after work was difficult. I was lucky if I made it 2 or maybe 3 times a week. I felt like I was missing so much so I figured I would just take the stuff I learned and just drill them into my brain on my own at home where techniques from class became like secondary reflex to me. I got to where I was damn near as proficient at moves as my instructor which proves that you can be a jack of all trades or a master of nothing. I honed my game down to a few moves I could do in my sleep and became one of the best guys at my school.

Probably better off posting a request for anything Rayvegas related on the OB.