Underpinnings Blog

Category: Success

  • In the Spotlight

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    Peggy Hagerty Duffy
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    What Exactly Do We Do? Big news!!!  We are so proud to have participated in making the new video produced by the Women in Deep Foundations Committee of the Deep Foundations Institute that addresses the question, “What in the world do those geotechnical people do?”  Please take a look, share, send it to little girls…

  • Checking Out

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    The Top of the Hill Is in Sight Don’t say this out loud, because we don’t want to jinx it, but it looks like we might be starting to, maybe, sort of, in a subtle way, approach the outer edge of the zone that’s right before the stage that leads eventually, circuitously, to the end…

  • Beyond an Epidemic

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    Good Enough A few weeks ago, I came across this blog post (click to follow the link) and my response was a resounding “Yes!”  Yes to the idea that we should be happy with accomplishments first for ourselves.  Yes to less looking to others for affirmation.  In my mind, the post was all about stopping ourselves…

  • Special Gifts

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    Inspiration is a Great Gift Idea I count the last part of 2019 as a time in which we received a bounty of gifts to renew our hope in making the workplace equal for men and women.  I’m not talking about anything related to #MeToo or TimesUp.  These gifts were outstanding women setting fabulous examples…

  • The Others

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    More is Better By Guest Contributor Lori Simpson (Editors’ Note:  Lori is our hero.  You can read her brilliance here.  If you are lucky enough to meet her in person, pay attention). The “Member Voices” article in the May 2019 ASCE Civil Engineering magazine hit home for me. Hannah Workman, a student at Fairmont State University…

  • Equal Pay! Equal Pay!

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    A Victory for All Did you watch?  Did you cheer?  Did you cry every time they showed a commercial with a young girl with a hopeful expression? I realize that not all of our Underpinnings community may have been interested in the recent victory by the United States team in the FIFA World Cup, but…

  • Perfection, Part II

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    Are These Our Only Two Choices? No doubt you have taken part in at least one discussion, if not endless discourse, on the cultural rift we have today between our Millennial generation and the rest of the world in the working environment.  Trust me when I say I understand why this division exists, because I…

  • Perfection, Part I

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    I Just Want It To Be Perfect When I was young I used to haul around a sketch pad with me everywhere.  I spent hours and hours drawing…dresses.  I was fascinated by fabric and design and endlessly intrigued by art that one can wear.  As I grew older, I found out that my passion for…

  • Shades of Gray

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    We Can Do It…Even Better Now If you follow our little blog and read the comments from our readers, you might have seen a rather pointed comment on our introduction of our contest winner, Lori Simpson, back in December.  After we listed all of Lori’s lengthy accomplishments, I suggested that this was all very impressive…

  • Civil Wars

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    The Casualties Are Higher When It’s Personal It didn’t take the #metoo movement for most of us to be familiar with being undervalued or disrespected or ignored at work or in school.  Even our youngest millennials who work in progressive companies with open-minded colleagues have run into ugliness at some point.  The trouble may have…