Luckily I have plenty of time to decide between the two. I enjoy the designing part of being a CE but I think it would be fun looking over the construction of a project and being outdoors. Do you have a good chance of designing some projects if you are a ConE?
Design in the contractor world depends on the contractor and the type of work you are doing. I know Kiewit does a ton of engineering in house, but they also do massive projects that require it. Your smaller, local contractors don't do so much of that
PS...working with contractors is well...not fun, even outside. All contractors try to do is lie, cheat, steal, and changeorder your job to death so that they can make $1 more than what you agreed to.
Edit...Yeah, I'm that bitter.
Wow, I don't even know where to begin with that statement.
Maybe you need to find some better contractors.