Building America - Construction Management
Miami
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Jeff Chan retweeted
Bro I'm still convinced me playing lots of video games as a kid still gives me such a unfair advantage.
I can sit at my laptop for HOURS super focused on my actions.
And now with AI it only gives us more power.
Jeff Chan retweeted
It's incredible how much people overvalue wealth as a measure of achievement, life success, and happiness.
There are plenty of very wealthy families where life is stressful and complicated, siblings barely speak, and drama and friction are the norm.
And there are plenty of families with far less money where life is simpler, everyone has dinner together, parents talk to their adult children every day, and the family remains incredibly close.
The bigger point is that we define success far too narrowly.
You can make an enormous amount of money, own incredible things, and still live a life filled with stress, broken relationships, and very little peace.
And you can have far less money but love your work, have great relationships, sleep well at night, and genuinely enjoy your life.
Yes of course money matters. It solves a lot of day-to-day problems and can make life much easier. But it really doesn't take that much money to build a great life.
At some point, success has to be measured by more than net worth. If you have everything financially but your life is filled with stress and fractured relationships, how successful are you really?
Jeff Chan retweeted
parents the world over today are forcing their children into misguided rat races for some status ladder that almost certainly won鈥檛 exist by the time they come out the other side. the world is changing rapidly. let them put down their grinding and keep their wits about them
Jeff Chan retweeted
A kid who knows how to raid in WoW is unironically a better hire than 99% of non gamers. They develop team skills, coordination, leadership, how to master the respect of 40 people, how to share loot, maintaining a raid schedule, showing up on time, clear direct communication, how to get along with unique personalities, creating and executing on strategies, failing and trying again (perseverance), delayed gratification, etc. Invaluable skills are developed during raiding that are transferrable to the real world.
Jeff Chan retweeted
You cannot be creative at a high level unless you are robotic at a low level.
The anti-memorization movement has left millions of students unable to think because every elementary operation consumes working memory.
For instance, solving equations feels smooth when basic arithmetic is automatic. It's like moving puzzle pieces around, and you just need to identify how they fit together.
But without automaticity on basic arithmetic, each puzzle piece is a heavy weight. You struggle to move them at all, much less figure out where they're supposed to go.
It鈥檚 the same all the way up the ladder of math: from arithmetic, to algebra, to calculus, to all sorts of university-level math and beyond.
Jeff Chan retweeted
Stop listening to loser podcasters who want you to be depressed and angry and think "America is over." Get in the game, build something, contribute to your community. In many ways, it's never been a better time to be optimistic and high agency
When I first started out in the Construction Management industry, it took me 8 years after graduating college to be promoted to a Project Manager.
With the AI tools which are available now, I believe that it is possible for a dedicated person to reliably do it in 4 years starting from zero.
It's unbelievable how a $20 monthly subscription can enable you to earn 6 figures fast in an industry which is highly unlikely to be replaced by or severely disrupted by AI.
From indeed.com:
As a person who works in the construction industry, the thing in the AI conversation which stands out most to me, is the difficulty of automation at the layer of the physical world.
What's being disrupted right now are jobs which are done solely with the computer and/or the mind.
Add a physical transformation requirement, such as putting up a new wall in the right place at a job site, and it gets to a new level of difficulty and AI disruption resistance.
Every day I work, I'm reminded of how badly there is a need for mid-level construction managers through the country.
Indeed.com shows the national average at $107k per year, but that number is significantly higher in major cities.
If you're willing to work hard every day using your mind, I recommend Gen Zers looking to start and Millennials looking for a change, to look into construction management.
DM me if you have any questions.
One of the reasons why construction stands a very good chance at not being severely disrupted or replaced by AI, is the physical requirement of building itself.
Claude is not going to pour concrete.
Gemini is not going to survey the site to make sure the concrete is placed at the right location
ChatGPT is not bending rebar.
Perhaps in the future it will be disrupted but right now we are a long way off.
Until that happens, there is a lot of room for Gen Zers and Millenials to have a good career and life working in Construction Management.
If this happens as described, the country is going to need many more people working in Construction Management.
One thing that stayed constant in my 20+ years in the construction industry, is how slow change happens.
This is the opposite of what you see here on Twitter where the frontiers of AI and tech seem to be changing massively on a daily basis.
In this way, having a "stable" career has been a godsend which is enabled me to build a good life around it, while ignoring most of the noise which in hindsight was mostly irrelevant.
In my career in Construction Management and Real Estate Development which has me consistently working with low skilled labor all the way up to billionaires and everyone in between, I get the strong sense that what most people need...is a job.
Self-employment, entrepreneurship, and business formation...these are not right paths for most people nor are they the paths that they want.
Most people are, and always will be looking for good jobs which pay well.
Construction Management is an often overlooked career which has a huge shortage of people in middle management.
The opportunity to advance is there for anyone willing to try.
As with most things on social media, I get the feeling that there's a lot of fantastical stuff out there, especially around the subject of making money.
My friends and I were able to have good, satisfying lives by having plain old careers in Construction Management.
I get the sense that many Gen Zers and Millenials would be better served over the long term by focusing on an AI-resistant job, consistent employment, and slow and steady advancement over time, rather than chasing the latest online fads.
