[SteveD]

I'm a Civil Engineer, but I work in a non-traditional field. I do commercial real estate Property Condition Assessments. I travel constantly, all over the country, visiting job sites, then returning to my home office to write the PCA reports about them. I've been working for myself since 2004. Prior to that, I had two decades of going in to an office working for other engineering companies.

COVID didn't change anything for me. There was a brief period right at the beginning of things, back in the Spring of 2020, when all the work stopped, and I was twiddling my thumbs for a couple months, but around summertime, in the June/July 2020 timeframe, the worked picked right back up and I've been non-stop busy since then.

I've got a flight to Kansas City this afternoon for a job site visit there tomorrow.

I never really enjoyed my work until I got to the point where I could work for myself. When I was working for other companies, I was always promoted into management, which I hated.