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I had a woman that worked contract for me as a drafter a few years ago. I wanted to hire her full time but she wanted to be an independent contactor because of life complications. She was a single mom with 4 kids and wanted to be able to control her own schedule. I didn’t really care. She came into the office to work 1 or 2 days a week and worked from home the rest of the time. As others have mentioned, with the proliferation of Zoom I don’t see how there would be any issues with coordination. I gave her our code list, CAD template and a couple go-by’s and she was off to the races. I would work the boundary and send her CAD with that part complete then she would process all the linework and draft it up pretty and after the first couple the redlines were pretty much non-existent. I think it’s a completely plausible line of work to pursue although I do think it might be shrinking with the advancements in F2F over the last decade. It takes me a couple of hours to draft a 10 acre topo/as-built survey on a developed commercial property if the field data is collected right. That’s not really worth outsourcing unless I have 10 of them per day. ALTA’s might be a niche to explore. Plotting easements on complicated commercial property can be time consuming and something I could see there being a market for.
I started my own business when the market crashed in 2008 and I found myself out of work. I was fortunate enough to have a following that made it work well. I had two or three people I had worked with in the past do all of my drafting and it worked out well. I paid them an hourly rate and everybody was happy.
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