I moved back home to rural Utah in 2007. Not that much going on here, didn't do it looking for work. There is not that much money in the county and surveying is not a way to get rich around here for sure. There is also not any respect for the profession and that goes all the way from county government to private land owners. Most folks are at least indifferent to surveyors and from there is goes to dislike and even hate for some of the things that have been done over time (don't put a bulls eye survey company name on the side of the truck). But nevertheless there is a need for some survey work from time to time.
Usually this time of year it is so dead as far as survey work goes it's hard to imagine that it even exists. But something is going on, maybe an anomaly due to the nice weather we been having or I don't know what but I been getting calls and emails to do survey work. Maybe more than I even want. So what's with this? If this is the slow time of an annual cycle then it will be nuts by spring, time to stop answering the phone. It's probably just a bad dream and certainly some sort of time warp or anomaly.
About the time I accept some projects the weather will go bad and I'll wish I'd never even thought about being a surveyor, at least till it warms up and dries out.
Is this uptick in survey work going on everywhere?
> Is this uptick in survey work going on everywhere?
From the talk at the PLSO convention last week it does seem to be picking up. I suppose lots of things have been put off for 7 or 8 years and people are anxious to get them done.
I have only been in business for just over a year now and expected to be slow from Jan through late March or early April. Thank the Lord I got two very large (for me) jobs and have enough work to keep me busy through the end of March.
Matt
> I have only been in business for just over a year now and expected to be slow from Jan through late March or early April. Thank the Lord I got two very large (for me) jobs and have enough work to keep me busy through the end of March.
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> Matt
Good to hear. So you declined the offer from a couple months ago ?
People keep dying. Heirs still need to split up what's left. That describes yesterday.
Baby boomers are going into the die-off-like-flies cycle.
Dang it. That puts Ridge Line and me near the end of that cycle.
I did decline the partnership position. I feel as though it was the best thing for my family and myself.
Work continues to come in and with the amount of work I have at this time of the year I expect this year to be a booming year.
Matt
It seems the same on this side of the Pond.
Quite a few new enquiries coming in, although not many yet turned into work. Many of the new developments which are starting were approved years ago with surveys and site investigations dated 2006 to 2009.
Yeah, close enough to contemplate the end of a life cycle. Ridge Line took so much crap for the name from Austin I decided to give it up. If you use an anonymous name you are not allowed to ever win a debate cause at that point you are illegitimate (no real name).
I noticed you stopped digging holes! Also, ole Ridge in his younger days would get kicked out of here in a New York minute!
Anyway between all that Ridge said and all what LR has said, not that much to say anymore. Just about debated all that was of interest to me. In some ways it's like a boring ground hog day around here any more.