What are your thoughts about the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' statements: "the number of jobs for Surveyors and Mapping scientists is expected to increase 10%- 20% by 2012." and "the number of jobs for surveying technicians is expected to increase 21%- 35% by 2012." Outdated? Maybe not. Can anyone confirm this today?
I just found that with a nice "new" video promoting the various disciplines of Geomatics. It was nice to see one of my favorite professors: Dr. BAD (Bon A. Dewitt)!
You can see the video here at the Florida Surveying & Mapping Society.
My personal experience with the Bureau of Labor would best be described as bureaucratic incompetence. In the 1970s when things were bustling and we needed good employees they insisted things were slow, based upon a report I had filed some years before indicating things were slow. In other words, they react very slowly, strictly pushing paper. I have no respect for them.
that's not only outdated but irrelevant in today's market. In GA we have had a 50% decrease in the surveying labor force in the past 3 years, and that's a conservative number.