Question for any Civil Engineers (or sub discipline)

[Koop]

I have a few questions for anyone who works in this field that I would greatly appreciate a few responses to.  I am currently in the school of engineering, heading toward a degree in civil engineering, with focus most likely in hydraulics or environmental.  Though I have a few concerns.

1)How vast is the job market?  I always assumed there would be jobs, but seeing how things are currently its starting to make me wonder.  I really don't want to be restricted to one area of the country.  

2) When I originally set out for this degree, I saw the field was growing, it still appears to be, I was wondering what the insider view is?  Is this field really growing?  Do you see a 30+ year career striving through that period?

3) Physics based Calc, Physical Chem etc etc... I can do it... I don't like it but I can do it, passed all my classes with A's (except the one I'm in currently which I have an A in however, its not over yet)  

How much do you use this on a day to day basis?  I assume its just curriculum and you would have resources and contacts within a firm, ie mathematicians, chemists, geologists etc etc who deal specifically with a lot of these things.  Am I incorrect in thinking this?  If I'm having to implement physical chem or do physics based calc formulas all day long maybe this isn't the job for me...

[fathom]

1.   there will always be architects and engineers...they are the top of the food chain in the construction business and seem to survive recessions better than those who actually do the construction.

2.   environmental is growing...there is too much driving that train besides actual environmental concerns.

3.   depends on where you work and what you're hired to do...most of our daily work is design and implementation...your firm may be different.

you gotta remember, having a degree in engineering and having a licence in engineering are two different things...most with a degree will intern with a firm for a few years before even attempting the state pe exam...even with that on-the-job experience, most interns in this state will fail their first attempt at the state pe exam.

as with all things, you get out of it what you put into it...ultimately, only you can answer that last question.