A lot of companies in the Bay Area can't find enough good programmers, even while offering very high salaries. If he has some downtime between his job hunt, it'd probably be very good for his eventual prospects if he spent some time learning to program and practiced, practiced, practiced.
I imagine it has a good number of uses in Civil Engineering as well (modeling? automating repetitive tasks?).
I imagine it has a good number of uses in Civil Engineering as well (modeling? automating repetitive tasks?).