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Please don’t ever cut any red tape, I want the same measure of my skills when I’m being considered.
That being said, the problem is the tremendous personal and capricious attitudes some board members bring to the table. They need to be held accountable, and largely won’t be as in New Mexico they serve at the pleasure of the governor, and rarely leave.
That’s the only thing I can see needs changed, and just base the test scores, and years of experience on the balance sheet.
Leave your personal opinions and other crap outside the process. It’s not an opinion that you passed the tests, it’s a quantifiable fact.
Short of felony arrest or otherwise, no board members should be able to slight or hinder anyone who is interested and qualifies for the legal definition of the process.
I would think you could buy a copy of ACAD and a good computer, hang out your shingle, and make close to $100k a year right now doing engineering (depending on where you are in the world). It confuses me why you would want to move from a position where you are poised to make the maximum in a profession back to pounding hubs. Honestly, I cannot imagine you making good money for at least 5-10 years given the facts you have shared.
That said, I am happy if you do it! I love seeing people make their dreams happen.
One of the most satisfied engineers I know does one-stop-shop for survey and engineering. Pretty much insists that you take both if you take any. He does the field work, does the design, stakes it in the field, drafts the asbuilts. (Actually, he has a helper, and he does the drafting.) He is retiring after many years of that, so I know it can be done.
-All thoughts my own, except my typos and when I am wrong.All I can tell you is you have to follow your dreams or you risk looking back later and saying ‘what if’?’ Just be smart about it. If you’re looking to pull down 100k a year working a 40 hour week, depending on the market where you are, it might take a while to get there and the experience and knowledge that demands those pay scales doesn’t come cheap. It takes time and they’re dues to first be paid. It’s been my observation that the grass is usually greener on the other side in large part due to copious quantities of manure. Set incremental realistic goals and see where it gets you. My 0.02′ Good luck.
Willy@flga-2-2 There is a posting in Falmouth for a PLS starting at $180k.
I would stay in government service if I were you. Politics is everywhere, you can??t escape it.
Get a job with the State DOT then hopefully they have a rotation program where you can rotate onto the Survey Crew eager to learn which may pleasantly surprise the Party Chief.
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