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I spent three summers during college working for a civil engineering outfit that was heavy into designing the end of the interstate highway era, making changes and bringing up to date older plans on projects that were left to the end here in Ohio. Later in life did some short term work (three or four months) at Ashland Pipeline (actually Ohio River Pipeline to be precise) laying out a route for a new 8" pipeline through southern Ohio with the district superintendent and a couple of engineers - very interesting at times but we had a good time in general. Civil engineering was my chosen field but never rose any higher than doing an engineering assistant's work as everything was pretty well done design wise and work was hard to come by in the early 70's around here. Oh, and my least favorite experience was standing behind the instrument man in the middle of the northbound lanes of I-71facing traffic with only a survey crew working sign to slow drivers down which they didn't - it was more than a little nerve wracking.