James Fleming, post: 429440, member: 136 wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnybrook_Fair
Yeah i figured it was Irish in some way back then
Going back to a miserable place with electronic time sheets and the computer pointing out where hours charged are below expectations, I still have dreams about being in the large national firm with nothing to do, so nothing I can put on my time sheet, then I remember I own my own company and I don't have to put up with this crap, so out the door I go. Seventeen years later and I still dream about what a miserable place it was.
Several years ago I was near their office and saw an old friend slowly trudging back into the office. She looked as if it was taking every bit of her soul to drag herself back to work (she later got out, too).
Robert Hill, post: 429455, member: 378 wrote: Yeah i figured it was Irish in some way back then
That's profiling
Lee D, post: 429405, member: 7971 wrote: It is what it is...
And it's about to go live.
I can't wait to see what it looks like....
James Fleming, post: 428765, member: 136 wrote: Gave my notice today. Walking away in a couple of weeks from the exciting profession of Geomatics. No more scanning, or mobile mapping, or big transportation projects. No 500+ person company. No more fancy corner office inside the beltway (well almost inside) in a huge modern building with an office address that just said "fourth floor" and Thai restaurant in the lobby.
Trading it all in for a job in the good old fashioned profession of Land Surveying. Farm boundaries, rural & exurban subdivisions, and site plans. Fifteen person company (two PE's, a LA/Planner, and the owner is an LS) in an old Victorian house with an address on South Main Street in a sleepy town of 10,000 people. No Thai restaurant, but the Olde Town Restaurant a one block stroll down Main Street has a nice hot roast beef sandwich as a lunch special. I've got four farm boundaries waiting for me when I get there next month.
Couldn't be happier (SWMBO is livid that I'm leaving all the benefits, apparently she was looking forward to living large on the company provided life insurance once I keeled over from the stress).
Good for you James.
I did exactly the same thing 23 months ago......best career move I ever made.
Went from a well oiled (but unappreciative) machine, to a company run by humans who know how to communicate their appreciation for what we do.
Best of luck to you.
Angelo
