Average Work Day

thebionicman, post: 409558, member: 8136 wrote: I have no doubt those numbers can be done. Calling them the 'norm' is beyond a stretch...

I agree with "norm" not being appropriate, how about "achievable" with self motovation? 😎

FL/GA PLS., post: 409574, member: 379 wrote: I agree with "norm" not being appropriate, how about "achievable" with self motovation? 😎

Absolutely. I've seen it done, just not from the preferred perspective...

It's really all about where you work. 100k in san francisco won't get you much. 100k in central WA and you live like a king...well not quite, but you get my point.

Same in Canada, east coast verses west coast. I could sell my house in Nova Scotia for about 100k, tops. Same house in BC would fetch 1 million or more.

My sister lived in Richmond BC in the 70's and the house they owned then sold a couple years ago for 1.1 Mil.

Paul Landau, post: 409428, member: 2526 wrote: Travis,
First off, glad to see a new recruit in the Surveying ranks. You will never regret it. I'm retired now after 40 + years in the field and office. Seems I can't go but a few miles and not see something that I or the company had a hand in. It's really gratifying.

My work day always started at 7 and finished at 4ish in the office and in the the field, it depended on distance from the office or if someone in a trackhoe was going to run out of stakes.

Don't try to be Superman, learn how to say " No, I can't take on any more right now ", I wish I had learned that sooner.

"Don't try to be Superman, learn how to say " No, I can't take on any more right now ", I wish I had learned that sooner."

This is so true!

Mike Mac, post: 409597, member: 2901 wrote: Same in Canada, east coast verses west coast. I could sell my house in Nova Scotia for about 100k, tops. Same house in BC would fetch 1 million or more.

My sister lived in Richmond BC in the 70's and the house they owned then sold a couple years ago for 1.1 Mil.

Wish I'd have made my escape to BC long ago - I think I am going to have to head south now, although there are some islands in BC with no utilities or amenities that I have heard have affordable properties.

WA-ID Surveyor, post: 409594, member: 6294 wrote: It's really all about where you work. 100k in san francisco won't get you much. 100k in central WA and you live like a king...well not quite, but you get my point.

It's the same way just within the State of Florida. It costs about 20% more to live in South FL. as opposed to Central FL. (unless you go to Disney, then all bets are off ;))

Hours... it depends..... I'm Solo... I like start at daybreak on field days. I may or may not take a lunch break, it really depends on how I feel, etc....
During the Summer months, I usually stop field work around 3-ish. By then, I'm usually done physically (I'm 54).

Today is an office day. I arrived around 8:30am, had a lunch meeting from 11-12-ish, back at the office. Just catching up on the news, rplstoday, etc. Will leave around 5-ish.

Very rare I survey on the weekends... last time was in Nov 2014, and that was for a friend.

I do own other businesses, so surveying is no longer my primary job, income, etc..........

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I'm a spastic (gentle readers, please forgive my self-deprecation). Leave me to my own devices and I switch gears twelve times per minute. Staying totally focused on a single thing is extremely challenging for me. The little gray cells as Poirot called them insist on seeking new challenges once something becomes too simple, repetitive or dull. Much of what we do is simple, repetitive or dull.

I may start at 7:00 a.m. on a certain part of a project and complete it at 5:00 p.m. However, in between those two end points I have done 87 other things to some extent. Trying to make a fair estimate as to the actual amount of time that should be billed to the client on that one part of that project is a true challenge. During that 10 hour stretch I may have made some sort of progress on 15 other projects as well plus handled a dozen personal chores. Sometimes the personal chores outweigh the billable time so I find myself making up for it at 3:00 a.m. sometimes. It works for me. It's part of why I must be my own boss.