Looking for advice from old friends....

I've got a hunch there are lots of folks looking for extra help that would be more than happy to let you re-find your surveying legs.

It really depends on where you were at in your career when you left and what you want to do now.

I'd say print out the lawbooks and key recent cases to get current, then jump in.

You were seasoned enough to earn the license and smart enough to keep it current. There are plenty out there that could use your help. Put a rough location on this thread and you'll probably get an interview!

In the last ±25 years Oregon has gone from about 2000 licensed surveyors to under 800. The remaining talent is in greater demand. You will have some technology to catch up with but the fundamentals haven't changed.  

The name is quite familiar.  Welcome back.

 I am assuming you plan on doing this where you are today.  For focusing on boundary surveys that makes a great deal of sense.  For construction, maybe not so much.

I appreciate the thoughts and encouragement. I'm in the Midwest and I could probably learn a lot by going through years of topics that have been posted here. I am sad to see that I missed the passing of RADU. 

Is SOTW no longer a thing?

The Surveyor of the Week threads stopped within the first year of their appearance, I believe.  Have no idea who dropped the ball.  They did a good job of getting posters familiar with one another.  There were some great stories o how each of us had gone from total ignorance of the surveying profession to the point we were at the time.