{"id":16355,"date":"2023-01-25T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecareers.emotedigital.com.au\/?p=16355"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T04:35:48","slug":"where-do-you-see-yourself-in-five-years-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/where-do-you-see-yourself-in-five-years-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years’ Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Evelyn Sung\u2019s five-year journey from WSP Graduate Engineer, to using technology to assist with environmentally friendly and community focused design.<\/p>\n
Evelyn is a Transport Engineer in the Planning and Mobility (P&M) Team. After completing her degree in engineering and architecture, she started her career with WSP as a Graduate Engineer in the Roads, Aviation, and Civil (RAC) team. Realising that she wanted something more creative, and more closely linked to community outcomes, she was able to connect with mentors in other business groups, and transition into her current role in the P&M team, where she is currently working on NSW\u2019s Zero Emissions Bus rollout. She is also interested in digital tools, and their application to urban design and planning, and is now studying computational design, which she hopes will help engineers and architects measure the human side of design, to bring a greater focus to how cities, towns and transport can create a better human experience.<\/p>\n
When she was first considering career choices, Evelyn\u2019s school guidance counsellor suggested she could either go for something that she was passionate about, which at the age of 17\/18 was most likely still a mystery or go into a field she knew she\u2019d be really good at and home in on her existing skills \u2013 these happened to be in the field of maths and design.<\/p>\n
Having grown up admiring the work of Santiago Calatrava, a renowned engineer and architect who was famous for his seemingly gravity defying designs, Evelyn decided she could do both. \u201cI didn’t want to give up what I was good at or what I was passionate about, so I decided to study engineering and architecture. At the time, my university was offering a degree with this unique combination.\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
When a friend shared that a position was available at WSP, Evelyn knew she had to apply. \u201cI had only just graduated from uni about two months before and I was happy just chilling and working in retail, but an opportunity presented itself and I had to grab it.\u201d<\/p>\n