Dear young friends,
you have to be optimist for your future and try to built it day by day, learning both theory of structural engineering and practice in use of Robot and detailing software (Advancer Steel in my case)...
I'm 42 years old and I'm a freelance engineer and I'm not part of big design firm team. I started by myself 15 years ago only with passion and tons of working hours, in this years, with a lot of defeats, a lot of commitment and even with a lot of luck, I've made projects all over the world.
So, if I've done, everybody can do it....so please, don't give up....never give up!!!!
Good luck my young friends

PasProStudio
www.pasquiniprogetti.eu
Structural + Detailing engineers