Engineering Aide---I've been in construction and construction management for 40 years and have only been out of work twice. The longest of those two stints was three weeks. I am less than a year away from retiring and I've never been sorry for any of the choices I made. I can travel around and point to a lot of interesting projects I've worked on. If you like building things, traveling, working outside all or part of the time, etc, etc, you can't beat it.