01
Getting Started
How construction actually works, explained from scratch: who does what and who pays whom, the disciplines and their daily reality, site time versus office time, and the first weeks that quietly set your reputation.
- Who Gets Paid and Who Answers to Whom · about 7 minutes
- A Day in the Life of Every Discipline · about 6 minutes
- Site Versus Office, and Why Site Time Pays for Decades · about 6 minutes
- Your First Weeks, Done Properly · about 7 minutes
02
Becoming Reliable
The habits that compound in year one: reliability and honest reporting, managing the person managing you, contract and programme literacy, and choosing a discipline and professional body on purpose.
- The Reliability Habit · about 6 minutes
- Reporting Up, and Managing the Person Managing You · about 6 minutes
- Learn the Contract and the Programme Before Anyone Asks You To · about 6 minutes
- Choosing Your Discipline, and Starting the Professional Body Route · about 7 minutes
03
Navigating the First Five Years
The decisions that arrive faster than expected: when to move employer, what an offer really says, tier one versus SME versus consultancy, and building the mentors and network a career needs.
- When Moving Employer Accelerates You, and When It Just Resets You · about 6 minutes
- Reading a Job Offer, and What to Do With a Counter-Offer · about 6 minutes
- Tier One, SME or Consultancy: Different Educations · about 6 minutes
- Mentors, Setbacks and the Network You Build Before You Need It · about 7 minutes
04
First Leadership
The first time you are in charge of something: owning an outcome instead of just doing the work, delegating while still being supervised, leading people older than you, and choosing which discipline pathway comes next.
- From Doing the Work to Owning the Outcome · about 7 minutes
- Delegating Upward and Downward While Still Being Supervised · about 7 minutes
- The Credibility Problem: Leading People Older Than You · about 7 minutes
- Choosing Your Next Decade · about 6 minutes
