Hello square roots! (old joke)
Was in the business for many years and worked my way to upper management. Worked Petro Chem with B&R, land survey, aerial mapping, Hiway work then commercial. I then found my way into airport work and finished my career there. There have been many changes since I left. When I started there was a Party Chief, 2 Rodmen with bags of goodies, and an Instrument man! Now it's only 1 man!!! lol
I started surveying in 1983 in a three-man crew and also worked my way up to management.?ÿ I now run 6 crews with two men each.?ÿ I refuse to run a one-man crew for safety reasons.?ÿ We do allot of construction layout and road work in an area where traffic is insane, I want to make sure my guys are safe and watching each other's backs.
@chris-bouffard I started in 1976. I agree with you concerning safety! You never know what may happen, and it provides a second set of eyes to see the layout that may pass by a single user. Whenever I would call for a survey in the airport...only 1 man showed up. I was also taught to never leave the instrument alone due to theft or damage. Things have changed...
Hello square roots! (old joke)
Was in the business for many years and worked my way to upper management. Worked Petro Chem with B&R, land survey, aerial mapping, Hiway work then commercial. I then found my way into airport work and finished my career there. There have been many changes since I left. When I started there was a Party Chief, 2 Rodmen with bags of goodies, and an Instrument man! Now it's only 1 man!!! lol
I worked petrochem with Brown and Root back in 1977.?ÿ Petrolite corp. in Pasadena, then the Goodpasture grain dock in the Houston Ship Channel,?ÿ I did go back to school, got my degree and then my licenses,?ÿ Welcome aboard.
Andy
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OLD!!! Who you calling old? I started surveying in 1968, and I only look (and feel) OLD. Some days older than others! Would I do it all again? Well probably not "everything," but surveying has been good to me, and a wild ride.
Loyal?ÿ
Welcome, friend.
Began my career in 1962, Colonial States, boundary, construction, deep mines.
Happy to be retired in AZ.
As Loyal stated it??s been a wild ride sometimes.
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1978 for me, first job was a township breakdown for a DOT project. Working three man crew, the surveyor looking for original stones and evidence and two of us running traverses.?ÿ
Sometimes three man crews, usually two man crews, a few times we would have four out.?ÿ
Went to mostly one man crew in 1996 while surveying boundaries for ranch units. Once in a while we will drag out two guys when necessary but it's rare. Also we are moving away from the big control network jobs. GPS is setting idle when there were days all 8 units were out working. Things change fast.?ÿ
I'm the one normally in some remote location, never even think about safety beyond being careful when I jump the 4-wheeler off a cliff face.?ÿ
OLD!!! Who you calling old? I started surveying in 1968, and I only look (and feel) OLD. Some days older than others! Would I do it all again? Well probably not "everything," but surveying has been good to me, and a wild ride.
Loyal?ÿ
I'm right there with ya buddy, (start 1971, reg. 1978) Old? Nonsense, I alway's drive with my left turn signal on and the wipers on hurricane mode. What the hell is with all this "shooting the bird" at me for? ?????ÿ
1962??ÿ I was wrapping up Third Grade with Mrs. Carson in 1962.?ÿ Two-room school with two teachers.?ÿ First through Fourth with Mrs. Carson and Fifth through Eighth with Mr. Schertz.?ÿ Had not heard of slide rules and logarithms, yet.
In 1962 I was in Jr. High in the county seat town school, but I spent my first two school years in a one-room K-8 operation. I think there were 2 in my grade level.?ÿ I learned some from watching the older kids' classes instead of reading picture books. That wasn't the latest for the country schools in the county, but it was only one or two more years before everybody went to town.
As a First Grader I learned quite a bit from those in Third and Fourth Grade.?ÿ We had no one in Second Grade.?ÿ Unfortunately, much of what they taught me was to not let other (older) kids know you are smarter than they are.?ÿ I could do most of what they were asked to do, and do it better.?ÿ Especially anything tied to arithmetic.?ÿ The need to hide my little light under a bushel was something that took years to conquer.?ÿ Getting great grades was OK so long as no one else knew.
In Kansas, public education took a drastic change in 1947 when the State decided to force the one-room schools to close and merge with other schools.?ÿ By the Fall of 1959, my little two-room school over a huge basement had absorbed four former one-room school districts and we still had no kids in Second Grade that year.?ÿ The next year we had six in First Grade.?ÿ In 1959 there were still a handful of two-room schools in the County, down from the maximum of 115 rural schools in 1900.?ÿ In 1966 the State took on closing down small high schools and forcing them into Unified School Districts (USDs).?ÿ Since that time there have been about 20 school districts (USDs) mergers to further reduce the total number to about 280 across the State.
