I have a degree in communications that I haven't found an opportunity to use yet. Mostly personal issues that I've learned to get over. During this time I feel into the Electrical field and loved it. I actually felt like I was doing something with my life. But now that I'm a little older, I can feel the work getting to my body. So now I wanna get into management side of the business.

Something I've observed in the business so far is that there seems to be no communications positions in the field of which explains a lot of the miscommunication within the field. I've seen situations where people who should communicate, don't communicate. Like one job they had 2 different engineers work on 2 different sides of a building, which makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is that they don't communicate at all, which lead to uniformity issues where the lights on 1 side of the building was patterned completely different from the other side which made me think of what other issues they had because of the lack communication.

Also miscommunication of what goes where. Like how you gonna put a 4 inch thick light under duct that has 3inches of clearance? No one got the electrician and duct guys together to figure out where the lights gonna go and how to rearrange the lights to be uniform?

Also in communications it's important to include relevant parties in certain decisions and from the outside looking in it seems like that doesn't happen. They just get all the college grads together to make decisions and all the blue collar guys just have to suffer through whatever they put together with no real construction experience between I've seen my firemen complain about how stupid a run was because he could would have ran it in a way that would require less material and still avoid the obstacles. But he went by the print like we supposed to. My question is why isn't the foreman and the engineer talking? The engineer aint touched a pipe in his life, why is making decisions on how to run pipe?

Do any of you guys see a place for a communications position in your work place? Do you have other communication issues you know about? Again Im not in construction management yet. I'm looking to get into it soon after I get my electricians license and hopefully I can get more details on to learn why the communication in construction sucks so bad. But I figured I toss the issue out here and see what feedback I get.