The Working Day of an Engineer One of my friends, Dmitry Shevelev, lives in Orenburg now though he was born in Vladivostok. Some years ago he graduated from one of our institutions and became an engineer. Now he lives near his office. He usually walks there. He works on weekdays. I can't say that he works hard, but all his mates like him because he is a very communicable person. He doesn't work on Saturday or Sunday. His working day usually lasts for eight hours. His duties are to answer all incoming letters and calls, to meet with different specialists, to help junior engineers so he basically works with people. He often tells me that he likes his job and that he will have a good pension after retirement . I usually meet him after the work and we speak about life. He is very glad that he found such work where he can show all his talents and where he has a regular pay rises. Though there is a difference between our ages, we have much in common. By the way, my friend knows English very well. It helps him a lot as every year various foreign delegations come to their office. These delegations change different technologies with our specialists and discuss many problems.