Poll - What other skills do you have?

Licensed EMT by the State of CT.
Studying now to become a Certified Personal Trainer.

PH.D in Roller Coaster Riding as well 😀 😉

I've worked as a technical writer, editor, and political campaign consultant; also been licensed as a registered representative (stockbroker), financial advisor, and options & futures trader.

Other skills include sarcasm, the palate to actually pick out the individual flavors in wine (it’s a pretentious little chardonnay with elements of tropical fruit, a little nuttiness, and an underlying minerality), and I have a wicked good refrigerator pickle recipe.

worked in restaurants, bars, and clothing stores before surveying.

i'll happily trap beaver, racoons, possums, or other nuisance critters for a reasonable fee.

thinking of tilling small gardens for around 20 cents/square foot plus mileage.

anything that i can fool other people to hire me for that would utilize my BBA.

I worked as a fabricator, welder, and machinist before becoming an RPLS, and while it's been some time since doing those things, vocationally, I don't feel as though it would be difficult to resume them if the need arose.

Not much, just ask my wife.;-)

Randy

I have a PE license, I play lead guitar in a classic rock cover band, and before surveying I used to install paver patios, walkways, and small retaining walls.

I can hold down a couch really good!

Interesting poll topic. By the time the posting finally stops this place will look like a library full of information on an extremely wide range of topics. As for me:

Licensed land surveyor, professional engineer and real estate salesperson.
Crop and hay farmer
Cattle rancher
Llama grower
Former expert on the production of sodium azide
Professional board member.....school board, church board, county extension service board, 4-H foundation board, historical society board, school alumni board, community building board, rural water district board, wholesale water supply district board, cemetery board, import/export promotion board
Parent and grandparent
Income property buyer and seller
Occasional singer with a country band
Former professional engineering society executive
Former director of a diversified agriculture promotion office at a four-year university
Fence builder, rock picker, mechanic, cow milker, chicken head-chopper-offer, manure scooper, manual grain elevator (scoop shovel), pest eradicator, fisherman.....typical 1950's-60's farm kid
Role model (good or bad depends on who you ask)
Genealogy researcher and local historian.
Producer of industrial films
Magazine contributor
Proofreader
Expert on dang near anything the listener knows little about;-)

You do that well.

The only thing more annoying than having a wife who teaches English is her having a husband who corrects her.

I can also fight fire, rope rescue, rebuild a dirtbike motor, reload ammunition & do a pretty mean Bob Dylan impersonation.

Plus ? I'm pretty good at drinkin' beer.? 😛

I was . . .

I was an ecologist & naturalist
I was a teacher/instructor
I was a letcherer . . . oops
I was a lecturer

Now, I'm a kinda burned out surveyor and a sailor who doesn't know how to swim

I was . . .

I have some skills as a mechanic. No formal training, just a lot of wrenching and help from friends that know more than me.

Civil Engineer, Farmer and equipment operator. I've been self employed for so long I don't know whether these skills are marketable or not. If I did get employed as an operator as soon as they found out I could do layout I'd be on the ground making less money (that's how it always was before).

> Civil Engineer, Farmer and equipment operator. I've been self employed for so long I don't know whether these skills are marketable or not. If I did get employed as an operator as soon as they found out I could do layout I'd be on the ground making less money (that's how it always was before).

I don't know where you worked, but when I was working construction doing layout, I got paid more than the operators.

:-O

I WISH

I was an ecologist and naturalist . . . still( I think I've forgotten more than I knew)
I was a dry-fly purist . . . still
I was a swimmer(better for sailing)
I was a "helper" surveyor . . . not a "practicing" surveyor . . . just a "helper"

Air breather

TNAI

I've had very few jobs outside of surveying.

Lawn mowing - while in school

Tire changing and gas pumping - after high school

Security guard for Wells Fargo - during college

Played as an elf on the assembly line at Fischer-Price - during college

Surveying

As to marketable skills, I can do many things in the realm of just being a do-it -yourself person. However, I would not market those skills as I would spend too much time trying to achieve perfection and would end up making less than a penny an hour.

"BBQ pit will travel".

Visitors thru East Texas may see me under a shade tree in front of my home or near any of the local government lakes serving up plate lunches.

Other than that, I do not realize any other life after surveying.

B-)

Licensed land surveyor + professional engineer = Developer

Developer + real estate salesperson = BIG BUCK$$$$$$$$$$$$

Have a prosperous week! B-)