Does the construction industry ever run out of work?

Does the construction industry ever run out of work?

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Yes. Slows down greatly in the winter months in the northern states too.

I feel like those faggots do a shit job to ensure they keep getting work. Notice how roads are always fucked? They use shit materials to make sure they always have road work.

No.

t. Water/wastewater Project Engineer

That’s genius desu

So ya went to school huh

Wow you are a brainlet

That's just the government being as inefficient as possible to keep inflated budgets.

But construction does fluctuate with the weather. I imagine if you worked in a growing town or city you'd be working pretty steadily. If you're skilled you can always work doing remodels and stuff

All industries probably do this. I work a mediocre job fixing printers and half the parts I need to replace in them could easily be engineered in a better way. A lot of speculation is that they're engineered to fail. This is on top of the fact that they often use more of a specific color of ink intentionally to get you to need ink faster. This is just an example, I imagine construction in non critical areas that could cause a loss of life or property damage are similar in nature.

Yes.

Do you work for a GC?

t. Work for a workaholic GC

Regionally, yes, for home construction.

Commercial/industrial is a bit more stable, as you can get in on long term projects. But even those can dry up, like the high speed train bullshit in CA - they put a lot of construction people to work, and now it's all gone, when they were looking at decades of contracts building it out.
"Construction" covers a lot of ground anyway. What specific segment? Region? Independant? Wage worker? State/Fed/country?

during major recessions structural development goes on pause.

There is no parity between consumer level chinesium crap and construction. Someone building an overpass has state/federal codes and regulations to deal with, along with having to make structures from base elements like raw steel rebar and concrete, you just slap a hunk of plastic shit out of an extruder in a sweat shop in china.

But I guess we know why your "career" is fixing cheap chinese shit, and not making anything.

No.

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I guess reading isn't your strong suit

It's weird how there's always roadwork being done and anytime there might be some workers there they're always on a break

My god, I almost got into that shit but after spending some time in an engineering firm focused on this I decided to nope the fuck out. The work looked tedious as fuck all

How young are you? Not being rude, serious question.
The construction industry is extremely cyclical. The most cyclical industry of its size by far.
The answer is yes.

Yes I do.

Checked. Eh, it’s not so bad. I’m not on the design side so I get to redneck it up with the bean brigade out in the field most days. Lots of getting paid bank to sit on my ass waiting for subcontractors to attempt to do submittal paperwork for the city.

They don't do a shitty job on purpose, but what a lot of states and unions have been doing is dragging out construction projects on purpose in order to keep workers employed during the recession to make it look like the job market is doing well. The teachers union does the same shit with the tenure system.

I'm 21, and im deciding between construction or university, im leaning towards construction,

If you can't decide between the two I'd say go construction. Work hard and save most of it. When your body starts shitting out in a decade or two then go to uni.
Literally what I did, no ragrets

Cities should google "roadpatch".

New constructions yes.
Repairing old ones, no.

Nice, still though must be hell watching the clock

That's just government inefficiency I think, not a conspiracy.

Trade Chad here

RaIn/snow drops work stops
Wet steel no deal