Hello from Massachusetts
Howdy,
My name is Clark and I started working for a land surveyor when I was 19. I have been at it off and on for about 12 and a half years now. I even took some time to go to school, for surveying no less. I attended White Mountains Community College and completed their two year Survey Technology program (which is now closed unfortunately) before moving on to UMaine to finish a BS in Survey Engineering Technology. That was all around 2007-2011.
I remember my professor, Dave, from white mountains mentioning this forum as a good resource and now I have finally decided to register myself.
I sat for my first PS exam in October and recently received the good news that I passed both portions… sort of. I should be receiving the official notice from the agency handling the state specific portion sometime this week. According to my account on their website, there is a notice of congratulations with my name on it and a status of PASSED dated December 13th; which was good enough for me to start celebrating. So barring any gross clerical errors I should be able to register with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and become an official PLS.
It feels like an interesting time to be entering into the profession, but maybe every fresh crop of Surveyor has had a similar feeling. Because of the nature of land title and the reliance on the work of our predecessors, a surveyor is rooted in history. However, the technology, tools and way in which land is being utilized is constantly changing. That places surveyors in an interesting position of having to live in two (or more) worlds in order to make these divergent areas speak to each other in a coherent manner.
My primary area of experience has been in dealing with property boundaries in western Mass and southern Vermont. Often times in these locations the key to eliminating a lot of the unfortunate ambiguity of our land title is found in some of our earliest records. Yet these records are not always seen as the valuable resource that they are. The ones who do defend our history and heritage are to be applauded.
Anyways, I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities to go on about such things as I don’t need to say everything in my first post on the forums.
I look forward to learning a lot and sharing some too.
P.S. When I clicked on the big green SIGN UP NOW button, it took me to the login in screen instead of the register screen. I had to manually enter the register page in the address bar. Not sure if that was just a problem on my end or not.
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