Congrats Brandon. Don't dally about with your PLS application. The mandatory education requirement begins in 2020.
Congratulations Brandon, (from another son-of-a-surveyor in Colorado). Good luck with your pls application/exam.
Brandon Pulling, post: 404478, member: 12326 wrote: ..experience surveying was actually as a punishment for being a troublemaker ..
..Father had always told me ??This is not a bad gig, man.?
.. ??I am Pregnant.?
... my father had gifted me something I had no idea he was gifting me at the time, a foundation of knowledge in a career....
OMG Brandon, you're story tugs at my heart strings. It's a mirror of my own experiences from 50 years ago.
I was the youngest and a maybe a little hard to bridle. Probably in desperation my mother placed me in the charge of my father, a surveyor, most of the time. Life happened and I've wound up sticking with this profession and have no regrets at all. I might try some other profession...but I can't think of anything else I could do to make this much money with so little effort expended! 😉
In the early sixties Pops travelled a lot with work. He built runways in TX and NM. We wound up in Buena Vista, CO with Pops surveying the initial line for the Homestake Water Project (66" water line) from the divide into South Park. I saw my first Electrotapes in 1964 on Buffalo Peaks. 10 years later I was a party chief using a HP3800 distance meter.
I have kin strung out along the front range from Ft. Collins to the Springs. My nephew is a CE with a consulting firm in Boulder. CO is a beautiful place. I eventually wound up here to make a career in the flats of Oklahoma.
Surveying has been good to me, hopefully you will have the same experience!
Welcome.
Welcome Brandon. My first comment is, there is a lot to learn on this board - if you have a question, the answers and advice you will get from the surveyors on this board are the best available.
My dad dragged me around on the end of a tape starting in the summer of 1972, when I was 12. I resisted like hell for years, but from the beginning, I thought "better than mowing lawns", and "what a great PLACE to have a job (outside)".
the number one statement my dad made that stuck: "surveying is something you learn and get better at for as long as you do it". He was right! I'm still doing it, loving it, still trying to get it right.
Gene Kooper, post: 448623, member: 9850 wrote: Congrats Brandon. Don't dally about with your PLS application. The mandatory education requirement begins in 2020.
Thank you. I won't. As of Today I am at 8 years 4 months experience. My hope is that the board will give me 1 year for my bachelors degree. If so I will make my 10 years around June of next year. If they don't, it will be June of 2019. Which will give me about a 1 year buffer before that path to licensure gets repealed per Colorado Revised Statute 12-25-214.:
"(4), the applicant shall:
(I) Have graduated from high school or its equivalent;
(II) Have ten years of progressive land surveying experience of which at least six years
must have been under the supervision of a professional land surveyor or an exempted federal
employee as defined in section 12-25-203 (1)(b); and
(III) Have been enrolled as a land surveyor-intern in this state.
(c) Upon passage of the examination pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (4), the
applicant shall be licensed as a professional land surveyor if such applicant is otherwise qualified
pursuant to section 12-25-213.
(d) The board may allow an applicant to substitute for one year of experience the
satisfactory completion of one academic year in a curriculum approved by the board. The
substitution of education for experience shall not exceed three years.
(e) This subsection (4) is repealed, effective July 1, 2020."
One thing I'm not clear on is whether I must simply be approved to sit of the exam by then or whether or not I need to obtain my license prior to July 2020.
Brandon Pulling, post: 448671, member: 12326 wrote: Thank you. I won't. As of Today I am at 8 years 4 months experience. My hope is that the board will give me 1 year for my bachelors degree. If so I will make my 10 years around June of next year. If they don't, it will be June of 2019. Which will give me about a 1 year buffer before that path to licensure gets repealed per Colorado Revised Statute 12-25-214.:
"(4), the applicant shall:
(I) Have graduated from high school or its equivalent;
(II) Have ten years of progressive land surveying experience of which at least six years
must have been under the supervision of a professional land surveyor or an exempted federal
employee as defined in section 12-25-203 (1)(b); and
(III) Have been enrolled as a land surveyor-intern in this state.
(c) Upon passage of the examination pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (4), the
applicant shall be licensed as a professional land surveyor if such applicant is otherwise qualified
pursuant to section 12-25-213.
(d) The board may allow an applicant to substitute for one year of experience the
satisfactory completion of one academic year in a curriculum approved by the board. The
substitution of education for experience shall not exceed three years.
(e) This subsection (4) is repealed, effective July 1, 2020."One thing I'm not clear on is whether I must simply be approved to sit of the exam by then or whether or not I need to obtain my license prior to July 2020.
Don't hold me to this but I believe by being accepted to sit for your LSIT prior to the deadline that your locked in with the requirements at the time of original application. I would want to get clarification from the board on that though.
Brandon Pulling, post: 448671, member: 12326 wrote: One thing I'm not clear on is whether I must simply be approved to sit of the exam by then or whether or not I need to obtain my license prior to July 2020.
My reading of the statute is that you must meet the experience requirement before being allowed to sit for the exam, and then pass the exam before July 1, 2020. That is based on the idea that you must meet the requirements in force at the time you become licensed. However, my opinion is just that.
The current statutes regarding the experience plus examination pathway states that the Board may allow one year of experience for a curriculum approved by the board. Please read Board Rule 4.7, specifically Rule 4.7.2.5.1.3 regarding the awarding of one year of credit of progressive surveying experience to see if you degree includes the listed courses. I don't think the Board will provide you with an answer until you submit your application. The same thing goes with your experience. Don't be surprised if the Board does not accept all of your experience. It must be 10 years of progressive land surveying experience.
Your big plus is that you have nearly three years to address any issues.
