Hey guys I have no experience in surveying,I was recently laid off from oilfield and hopefully trying to get my foot in the door,any advice or point me in the right direction would greatly be appreciated,oh yea my name is Brian McKnight
Howdy from Arkansas!
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Hi bud thanks for the reply
Well, here is a plumb bob. And this here is a pole. Now a days, We don't use the plumb bob as much, but we use the pole alot.
Progress. It's scary.
And we actually do talk about sunspots, interfering with our survey.
And, we can drive 75 mph. But we no longer understand how to milk a cow.
We can discuss error ellipses, less than a tenth, but we think water comes from a fawcet. We are happy to fly in an airplane, but scared of a skateboard.
Hop on in.
Nate
Survey companies usually hire workers without experience in surveying at the lowest, hardest level. But, nearly everyone on this board has worked at that level at some point in their life, so we know what that is like. In the South, much of that work seems to involve what we call cutting line. That amounts to clearing a strip of vegetation along the property boundaries or other important lines of sight for the instrument operators. Some days that can be sort of fun and other days it will seem like Hell. But, the worker soon learns a great deal about what surveying is all about. Being able to use that knowledge to prove you can handle work a bit higher up the pyramid usually leads to the chance for a pay upgrade.
Holy Cow, post: 373103, member: 50 wrote: much of that work seems to involve what we call cutting line.
Please be careful with the tools you use...
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Welcome!
I got laid off from the oilfield when it crashed of 1988. Had a friend that got me a job on a survey crew as a rodman. I've never looked back, it took a lot of work but now I'm licensed in four states. Surveying can be a great career.
Best of luck to you.
Herb
Being inexperienced and new is not necessarily a bad thing in our profession depending on the path you want to take. I would rather hire someone very green and teach them the way I want things to be done instead of going ahead and getting guys who have already developed a ton of bad habits and "shortcuts" with their previous employers. They are a handful of guys around my area that I wouldn't touch with a 2 meter rod. How old are you? Is college an option? If not, pull out the phone book and start making cold calls. Good luck whatever you decide. I couldn't imagine doing anything else.