Well I recently completed the very first survey for my solo practice. I could not have asked for an easier one either client just wanted the lines located for a fence. I found all for corners and staked her lines. Got to love an easy job.
Hollandbriscoe, post: 440603, member: 9155 wrote: Well I recently completed the very first survey for my solo practice. I could not have asked for an easier one either client just wanted the lines located for a fence. I found all for corners and staked her lines. Got to love an easy job.
Congrats. I'd love to say it gets easier, but you know they won't all be like that.
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Tom Healy, post: 440604, member: 1139 wrote: Congrats. I'd love to say it gets easier, but you know they won't all be like that.
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Oh trust me I know the next one i have is much worse
Congratulations. I got a robot about 13 years ago, which i added to my GPS and total station collection, and have not had an employee since. Prior to that I managed anywhere from 3 to 10 employees for 25 years. My worst problems are well worth the change. My hat goes off to anyone who can manage employees. not for me. I want the fun work.
Much to my surprise, the addition of network and GNSS after my switch has made work easier than I first thought.
Got to love robotics (& gps), they are always on time, never show up hung-over, don't start getting antsy around 11:30am or book 5:00pm tee times and things get a little slow they are happy to just hang out in the closet; while you catch up on computer work. Not to mention all the employment/payroll taxes & such.
Fredh, post: 440981, member: 12570 wrote: Got to love robotics (& gps), they are always on time, never show up hung-over, don't start getting antsy around 11:30am or book 5:00pm tee times and things get a little slow they are happy to just hang out in the closet; while you catch up on computer work. Not to mention all the employment/payroll taxes & such.
:gammon:
Those couple times when you do need a second hand, there are always a high schoolers or non college kid looking to make a few bucks, who can swing a knife, hike in grade stakes or hold the rod plumb. And maybe they'll take to it. Wish I knew this was a career when I was 17, would have saved me some years of floundering.
Congrats. Today is my 1 year anniversary solo. I have used a couple of friends as helpers, my son, and my 10 year old grandson. The 10 year old works for video games... cheap labor.
Fredh, post: 441021, member: 12570 wrote: Those couple times when you do need a second hand, there are always a high schoolers or non college kid looking to make a few bucks, who can swing a knife, hike in grade stakes or hold the rod plumb. And maybe they'll take to it. Wish I knew this was a career when I was 17, would have saved me some years of floundering.
Word. I wish I had started when I was 17 instead of getting a physics degree. Or at 26 when I went back to school for accounting.
Hollandbriscoe, post: 440603, member: 9155 wrote: Well I recently completed the very first survey for my solo practice. I could not have asked for an easier one either client just wanted the lines located for a fence. I found all for corners and staked her lines. Got to love an easy job.
Watch out for the one where the guy said he set almost a hundred points but didn't. Site previews become much more important when you are solo. Your back will thank you.
Hollandbriscoe, post: 440603, member: 9155 wrote: Well I recently completed the very first survey for my solo practice. I could not have asked for an easier one either client just wanted the lines located for a fence. I found all for corners and staked her lines. Got to love an easy job.
Mapped and all, right?
Congrats!
JB, post: 441099, member: 346 wrote: Mapped and all, right?
Congrats!
No map just a report of survey, that is all the client needed. Of course the whole lot was less than a 1/4 acre and cleared so pretty straight forward. The second job is proving to be quiet a bit more difficult, but I do believe I have it figured out, just got to go back and set a couple of missing corners, and stake some lines.
Hollandbriscoe, post: 440603, member: 9155 wrote: Well I recently completed the very first survey for my solo practice. I could not have asked for an easier one either client just wanted the lines located for a fence. I found all for corners and staked her lines. Got to love an easy job.
Don't tempt the survey gods, they have a rotten sense of humor.:)
Be thankful.
Assuredly, one day you will enter the twilight zone survey project and if you can get thru that one with your sanity, you are set for snything.
