I guess I'd better add the states that I'm licensed in to the list, WY, ID, AZ, to increase some of the numbers.
paden cash, post: 425242, member: 20 wrote: Sounds like it might take you past some 'uncertain' places.
Ever wonder how Uncertain got it's name?
Bushwhacker, post: 425292, member: 10727 wrote: Ever wonder how Uncertain got it's name?
It's a strange one for sure. I guess I never really wondered too much...except possible after winding through the sloughs someone really didn't have a good idea as to where they were...they were a little "uncertain".
However I'm sure the truth is far better than fiction!
Mark Mayer, post: 424658, member: 424 wrote: I will probably retire the OK license the next time it comes up for renewal.
How does that work? Do you get a deposit back on your Oklahoma license when you return it or do you just sell it on eBay to recover costs?
Kent McMillan, post: 425302, member: 3 wrote: How does that work? Do you get a deposit back on your Oklahoma license when you return it or do you just sell it on eBay to recover costs?
Ebay inflates the prices of licenses around here. It's just easier and cheaper to save your cereal box tops, mail them in (with the check) and get your own. There's been some talk about some people that have bought second hand shingles and then found they might incur some liability from work by the previous owner...
paden cash, post: 425304, member: 20 wrote: Ebay inflates the prices of licenses around here. It's just easier and cheaper to save your cereal box tops, mail them in (with the check) and get your own. There's been some talk about some people that have bought second hand shingles and then found they might incur some liability from work by the previous owner...
I suppose that Oklahoma issues licenses with the licensee's name written in pencil to facilitate transfer or is the custom to
(a) line through the former owner's name and write a new one above it or
(b) just change your own name to match the one on the license?
Texas
I barely get out of Texas and that is when I am along a state boundary and venture across to get around a bayou.
Kent McMillan, post: 425306, member: 3 wrote: ...(b) just change your own name to match the one on the license?
I worked with a guy in the late '70s that was within a year or two of my age and a licensed surveyor. His "low" number indicated he had grandfathered licensure ('68-'69). While there are one or two men my age that were "given" licenses back then, they were most assuredly just rodmen at the highway department...where EVERYBODY on a crew, even summer help, got a license...(@$!? wtf?). I asked Jim about it and he said he had worked for the County Engineer's Office down in Love Co. I took it for face value.
It became evident he lacked some basic skills. My employer did some digging and discovered Jim and his deceased father had the same name. He had "assumed" his father's license and moved away from home to where no one knew any different.
He eventually drank himself to death and I wound up with his '70 BSA...through a purchase from another surveyor acquaintance.
PS - Blake if you're reading this, I don't know if you ever knew that about Jim. Now you know the rest of the story.
paden cash, post: 425322, member: 20 wrote: I worked with a guy in the late '70s that was within a year or two of my age and a licensed surveyor. His "low" number indicated he had grandfathered licensure ('68-'69). While there are one or two men my age that were "given" licenses back then, they were most assuredly just rodmen at the highway department...where EVERYBODY on a crew, even summer help, got a license...(@$!? wtf?). I asked Jim about it and he said he had worked for the County Engineer's Office down in Love Co. I took it for face value.
It became evident he lacked some basic skills. My employer did some digging and discovered Jim and his deceased father had the same name. He had "assumed" his father's license and moved away from home to where no one knew any different.
He eventually drank himself to death and I wound up with his '70 BSA...through a purchase from another surveyor acquaintance.
PS - Blake if you're reading this, I don't know if you ever knew that about Jim. Now you know the rest of the story.
The only thing of my Father's I assumed was his PO Box in my home town.
I already had 4 of my licenses before he died. I have his certificate hanging on the wall with mine, all seven of them(I have two for Texas, they changed the name in '89)
paden cash, post: 425322, member: 20 wrote: I worked with a guy in the late '70s that was within a year or two of my age and a licensed surveyor. His "low" number indicated he had grandfathered licensure ('68-'69). While there are one or two men my age that were "given" licenses back then, they were most assuredly just rodmen at the highway department...where EVERYBODY on a crew, even summer help, got a license...(@$!? wtf?). I asked Jim about it and he said he had worked for the County Engineer's Office down in Love Co.
This blows my mind. Grandfathering engineers (as in most states) was bad enough, but this...wow. Whatever complaints I have about the profession today, let me give a big shout out to all of you who worked to nip this in the bud. We've come a long way, baby.
I Currently have 6. Arizona, California, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Currently I am using NM and TX. A few years ago I was also using OK & KS.
FrozenNorth, post: 425331, member: 10219 wrote: This blows my mind. Grandfathering engineers (as in most states) was bad enough, but this...wow. Whatever complaints I have about the profession today, let me give a big shout out to all of you who worked to nip this in the bud. We've come a long way, baby.
I don't know when Oklahoma actually started licensing engineers. I'm sure it was pre WWII. What we use to call a "grandfathered" engineer around here was a licensee that applied for examination without the benefit of a degree through what was considered "long established practice". They discontinued that process in 1996 I believe.
Surveyors, on the other hand, could be licensed through examination without the benefit of a degree until 2014. And since we've only been licensing surveyors in Oklahoma since 1969 there are still a few out there that simply got their license by application and no exam. I have a few colleagues that were summer help on highway crews in 1968 when the Survey Supervisor (Al Zeigelgruber) pulled up and asked "how many of you all want to be a surveyor?".
The state highway department licensed everyone it could back then....and although it's been problematic over the years I believe the sun may finally be setting on the rough start we got around here.
Illinois and Iowa. Mainly work in Illinois.
Stephen Johnson, post: 425332, member: 53 wrote: I Currently have 6. Arizona, California, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Currently I am using NM and TX. A few years ago I was also using OK & KS.
Stephen you spend way too damned much money on continuing education! 😉
For the convenience of my message board cohorts, I put my states in my screen name (and didn't use an alias).
Then when I was laid off, the Maine license came up for renewal, and I opted not to pay the fee. Since I have not needed to have a Maine license, I haven't bothered to get it reinstated. Only licensed and work in Mass. these days.
I wonder if I can change my screen name to more accurately reflect reality? Or maybe change it to a cool alias?
