Engineering Officer

This is the office of the Engineering Officer, which is basically just me, Deepak V Shet, working out of my place in Ulga. My father is V K Shet, and we’ve been in this part of Karwar for a long time. It’s not a big city operation at all. Ulga is a quiet spot, and most of the work I do involves local projects and helping out with technical stuff that comes up in the taluk. I get my mail at the local post office and usually spend my time either at the desk or out visiting some spot where something is being built. It’s a lot of driving around the U.K. district on roads that aren't always the smoothest. The office itself is just a room with a lot of books and some old tools I’ve collected over the years. It gets pretty humid here, especially during the monsoon, so things tend to smell a bit like damp paper. People in the village know where to find me if they have a question about a structure or a measurement. I don’t have a website or a big staff, just me and a couple of notebooks where I keep track of everything. It’s a slow pace compared to the big cities, but the work is steady and it feels good to be working in the place where I grew up. Just a regular job for a regular guy in Karwar.