@350rocketmike oh no worries at all. I was not long out of the USMC was living below my means and building a nest egg but also lost my first wife and was just tough times but I had 2 kids to take care of and was better to lose a house and such than to not be able to feed them. I hustled part time gigs surveying mostly unique projects that former clients called me in to help manage and build a workflow as they that survived that recession had to expand outside their normal bread and butter subdivision work. And trying to manage a county work of storm man holes vs a subdivision they learned what procedures and processes worked in subdivision would not be the best for covering such large areas and most only used rtk to set station pairs not county wide control and such. I understood GIS and they new that as well so i could translate gis speak to them and translate survey speak to gis folks and help them use the tools in TGO and excel to get all the other data in correct format so they didn??t have to purchase esri software and servers and such. But we all learn. ?ÿGlad you made it through as well. We will have another one at some point and it will be similar but different at the same time. ?ÿIf i wanted the more sure life i would have not retired from federal service. But i just missed all this lol. The smell of fresh cow poop in the morning and surveying. ?ÿI leave everything I cannot control in His hands and do what I can. I have an awesome wife 4 kids and I am blessed beyond what I deserve. The wife and kids are worth more than all the riches in the world.
I should have been more specific, at our office it means being in the office.
You might wanna test that, because when it comes down to having nothing stamped versus letting the PLS outside sometimes I've never seen a company not choose the latter.?ÿ Besides, it's horrible practice to have a PLS lose touch with the fieldwork side of things, imo.
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I don't disagree with that last statement but we have 5 licensed guys in the office and not one of them sets foot in the field.?ÿ 4 out of these 5 guys came with the purchase of a whole small company, originally it was only one licensed guy who owned the place. It's not common for field guys to be licensed around here. It's also 2 years at university in thunder Bay if I remember right.
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@350rocketmike you just keep your head and keep doing what you are and learning you will be fine. You have the attitude of you care and want to so that is something they can??t teach. What they can teach is exactly what you are doing now. Slowly building you in different jobs and building that foundation. ?ÿYou will mess up make mistakes just learn from them. I make them still and every time i do i try and see how or why it happened and how to prevent it the next time. We never stop learning or improving. If that happens then we need to find something else to do. I get bored easily with things that don??t allow me to keep getting better. ?ÿAlways trying to break the system. But i have to watch myself because i can get lost in figuring out how many different ways i can solve the same problem lol. And that is not being productive either. ?ÿI try and limit myself to breaking the system on my own time and testing different ways. Got me in trouble tonight. The wife said are you done working yet. I said i have been done for a couple hours now i am just playing around now. She said uhmm help with dinner. Yes maam i said. I snapped up and got busy. Now i have to get up early and try my new routine I didn??t get to finish tonight. Lol. You keep that attitude and drive going you never know who is watching. ?ÿAnd when i say that I mean it you just never know. ?ÿI watched as a young boy a young man in his I guess mid twenties that worked at an old gas station. His work ethic and attitude was awesome. My uncle always pointed him out to me as we got a cold coke and peanuts. Well that 20 something young man was watched and some millionaire came in one day and asked him if he was going to college. He said no sir not enough money. He had a tough life tough. Well that millionaire came back a year later and told him he was fired and that he would draw his salary plus a raise double his hourly rate and all he had to do was go to tech school down the road and it was paid for. He did and went through school. Passed. Then came out worked for that man for two years and saved his money went back got a bs in businesses management and when the man passed he bought the station and ran it and did very well.
At this point I'm 39, taking the 2 year survey technician course 10 years ago was my second stab at school (flunked out of electronics engineering when I was 19 due to personal problems).?ÿ
All the time I spend reading on here (and to some small extent the surveying Reddit) is free education at my own pace, from people who are here to help improve themselves and others, for no financial gain. So to be honest I'd rather learn here.?ÿ
