What's it like to be in the Civil Engineering (32E) Career Field

We've changed the post for this career field to have one all encompassing post. Rather than have seperate posts asking what's it like to be a General Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Environmental Engineer, etc. we've changed it to a single post so that you can understand how the AF uses the degree types within the Civil Engineering (32E) Career field.
The most important thing to understand is that, for the most part, the two alpha-numeric codes that appear in the AFSC after the 32E are not looked at that much. The fourth alpha-numeric symbol is an experience identifier (1,3, or 4) and has to do with your rank. The last Alpha-numeric character for an assession is usually one of the following: 32E1A -- Architect, 32E1C -- Civil Engineer, 32E1E -- Electrical Engineer, 32E1F -- Mechanical Engineer, 32E1G -- General Engineer, 32E1J -- Environmental Engineer. All accredited engineering degree programs qualify for at least two of the AFSCs above: The one associated with your degree and the General Engineer (32E1G). All the extra letter does is allow the AF to do manpower calculations. They have authorizations for X number of engineers with exact degrees and then we have X number of authorizations for additional engineers. Anyone with an ABET accreddited engineering degree qualifies. "General Engineering" as a major is not an ABET accredited degree and will disqualify you from being able to have any 32E AFSC.
As far as assignments and job opportunities, all versions of the 32E AFSC are treated the same. You can do any 32E job unless in a rare instance, the specific degree/expertise is coded into the job. I've only seen this in deployment tasking orders and I know of 4 or 5 other jobs that have a shred out (degree specialty) that is mandatory. Other than that, you are elligible regardless of your specific 32E AFSC for all 32E jobs. You will be expected at times to work outside of your specialty. See the Day in the Life of A Civil Engineer (32E) Post for more info.