Evan Cart- @BFT Land Design

 Hey gang, hope you all are doing well and excited to get paid to learn for once. Today is the start of my third week here at BFT Land Design in Brentwood TN. It has been fun from the get-go and even got to go on a field trip with Riley to the new largest soccer only stadium in the country, Geodis Park. The stadium is state of the art but what is really neat are the opportunities it has created from affordable living, jobs, community engagement from the building process to the activities now going on such as sports compounds for kids, music venue, camps, etc. Co-workers are super fun and nice which helps for questions. I am using strictly CAD for formatting surveys that come in, adjust drawings to be centered off of doorways and other baselines. Doing overall layouts of boss man's design, calling companies to get dwgs and pdfs.....first time actually feeling like an intern was last Friday when I put furniture together for half the day. Got paid for it so who's really the silly Billy? Learning things about CAD I never even knew existed. This Thursday I get to meet a client to plan, hopefully design, and install. The higher-ups said I would have the chance to see things get put in the ground so hopefully soon. Tune in next week. Fun things that my buddy (Winston, my handsome pooch) and I do are dog parks, trails, ice cream at DQ. Sooooo many nature trails around, I am excited for when the time change comes around and we will be able to make it to these places after work. Also, went to the shooting range for the first time yesterday....purty cool.


Godspeed Gang,

Evan

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