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You know you are an aging surveyor when…
Jp7191 replied 6 years, 1 month ago 33 Members · 37 Replies
- Posted by: Dave Tlusty
… when you’re now buying lots that you surveyed 38 years ago.
I did this. My house is in one of the first subdivisions I surveyed after moving to Texas in 2004.
T. Nelson – SAM, LLC When you’re buying lunch for as much as you used to earn in a day.
.When you remember being able to set up an instrument out front of a school to get a benchmark without having the cops called on you…
When you look at the beautifully designed certificate hanging on the wall, hand painted, and see the date. Yet alone the low Registered Surveyor number. (they don’t make them like that anymore)
Also when you find old marks from a 1970 survey by self!
You know you can still find in your truck a couple of plumb bobs, a 200′ steel tape, and eleven “arrows.”
Cheers,
Henry
- Posted by: m & h taylor
You know you can still find in your truck a couple of plumb bobs, a 200′ steel tape, and eleven “arrows.”
Cheers,
Henry
That’s the truth. Brought a tear to my eye.
Nate
You apply online for a license in an adjoining state (or Federal District in this case) that requires 8000 hours of experience and the bar graph that shows what you submitted reads 59,340 hours
- Posted by: James Fleming
You apply online for a license in an adjoining state (or Federal District in this case) that requires 8000 hours of experience and the bar graph that shows what you submitted reads 59,340 hours
slacker
When you started surveying you actually “split curbs, proceeded as shown”!
When you’re having a “teaching moment” with your apprentice, who’s been with you for a year, by telling him a story from “back in the day”, and he politely informs you that you’ve already told him the exact same story three times. Ouch!
- Posted by: Rich Roberge
When you’re having a “teaching moment” with your apprentice, who’s been with you for a year, by telling him a story from “back in the day”, and he politely informs you that you’ve already told him the exact same story three times. Ouch!
Sometimes you just have to keep telling the same story, until they GET IT!
Loyal
You tell your protege a story and he politely mentions that your story’s timeframe precedes his birth.
So, you switch to telling stories that begin with “Back when I rode my dinosaur to work………….”
You tell your protege a story and he politely mentions that you told him the same story last week, and a couple of months ago, too.
Good training is repetitive. End of story.
Oh, by the way, what is an apprentice?
Paul
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You know when … a phase difference gps baseline is called Classical Method.
What does that make a T2 ? Pre-Classical?
You visit the Science museum in Washington D.C. and they have a Trimble 4800 RTK rover and TDC 1 on display and you thought you were still using cutting edge technology. 🙂 Jp
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