People enjoy using the broadbrush approach to labeling the workers in various occupations. However, the land surveying profession is so broad in scope that the variety of experiences provides a specialness to our lives. Some focus on urban structural layout. Others, highways, bridges and dams. Many get into government work. Some never meet the actual client. Others of us work directly with our clients, be they small businesses, lenders, developers or the little old lady who wants to divide up her assets amongst her seven children in an equitable fashion.
I enjoy making the personal connections with many of my clients. In some cases, those clients are people I have known for decades. In other cases the clients happen to know the people I know and, thus, are provided the assurance that I can be the one to do what they need done and do it well. Sometimes, I remember the client as well as the details of that project.
Coincidence is a crazy thing. Yesterday, I was searching through some projects from December 2018 and saw the name Schornick about two jobs away from the one I was needing. I was immediately reminded of this client and why I nicknamed his file as "Only Child". Then, last evening I was searching for an obituary that would have been handled by a funeral home in his area and discovered that Mrs. Schornick had passed away last week. Weird to not think of that client in a very long time and then stumble onto him twice the same day.
BTW, the Only Child label came about from a casual conversation with both Mr. and Mrs. Schornick upon arrival at their rural home. Mrs. Schornick was an only child. Mr. Schornick was an only child. They only had one child and she had only had one child.
