> > Why not? I'm genuinely interested why I should reconsider.
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> Try before you buy. This profession tends to pick the guy vs. the guy picking the profession. That and there is little money unless you work for a huge corporation.
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> I'm sure you can handle the elements, but the weather is a small part of it.
I second the "try before you buy". I grew up around surveying; my dad was a surveyor and my grandfather a rodman for some time before that. I was convinced that I didn't want to be a surveyor and did everything I could to go down different paths, but it just kept calling me back.
If it's the right job for you, you'll know it after you spend some time in the field. You just have to determine if you have that special kind of crazy to do what we do and watch the engineers run off with all the money.
Surveying is a difficult profession, it is a receding profession, it does send you on bunch of adventures but hey the pay is way too low and the liable to high.
If you care about someone you stop them from making mistakes, investing your future in land surveying ensures that its written in the stars that you will likely be poor and struggling financially.
Things have changed, surveying isn't the profession it used to be.
Best honest advice, don't do it... your job is to provide for your family and your own future not to go on low pay adventures.... go find a better way to make money, this ain't it.
25 year veteran of surveying,
BL
Earning The Most Money Possible Does Not Make You Better
Use your talents in a satisfying and useful way and the person satisfaction can far exceed the economic satisfaction.
Paul in PA
