Are you currently passionate about Land Surveying or is it just something to do for a little money?
Answer on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being "blah blah blah sucks" and 10 being " this profession rocks I would not want to do anything else it is my life calling"
I'll go first. Read my "signature" and tell me I don't love my job.
Better yet, tell me the check is in the mail 😛
edit: Oh, I almost forgot the number scheme. I'll go with 9.99. The other 0.01 goes to the spelling teacher who has a bit of passion in her blood, which would accordingly make her 'passionate'. I bet her name is Mimi.
Poll - Are you passionate about your profession?
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about a 6 right now. i am still proud to be a surveyor, but it is just something to pay the bills.
There was a time I would have said 10+!
After 30 years of seeing the "profession" decline to the state it's in today, I'd say about a 7.
Bear in mind I am new and the majority of my work experience is construction staking I will say a very solid as a piece of sioux quartzite 1.5; I do like looking for pins and the theory of boundary seems interesting enough though.
I would give it a 9 - wouldn't do anything else - just past the "rocks" stage..
Down to an 8 these days.
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> Down to an 8 these days.
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ditto here
I'm still on a 9.. Super inter-national rich popular figure still ranks as a 10 to me..
Love my job : 9!
10.5
I'm still at about a 9.
I love surveying, but with running a solo business, there's just not any time for anything else. That is really starting to get to me.
About another 6 months to a year, and hopefully I'll be able to run the business instead of it running me. Trying to get as much paid off as I can so I can start enjoying life again.
30+ years ago a 10, today a 3.
After 30+ years in surveying, 23 of which in business for myself, I have been fortunate with respect to Employees. They can run the technical aspect of the business including proposals without me, and, as a result I only have to “work” an hour or so a day. I just go in to say hey and deposit checks. SWMBO handles the accounting, payroll etc.
I ain’t digging or pounding anything anymore!:-)
Have a great week!
Most days are an 8 or 9, some are spectacular and are 10's +, some are 3 to 5.
VERY seldom do I hit the 1 or 2.
The reason I would hit 1 or 2 is the reason that I love my job, the scenery changes, the puzzles change, and the weather changes. When they don't, that's when the 1 or 2 happens.
Most of the time I can stay interested for about 5 days and after that it begins to trail off.
I love my job too.
I can think of nothing else I would rather do for a living.
10 (ten)
Absatively posolutly TEN!!!
Richard Schaut
I'm supposed to feel passion when I'm getting ******, right? Then yes, I'm pretty damn passionate.
Rick
I would have to say a 10. After graduating with a finance degree and working in the industry for a year or so I fell into surveying. There is nothing I would rather do.
Cy
passonate about your profession ---- I Used to be
I have lost the passion these last three years.
Surveying has been my whole life - my whole life.
I grew up surveying, My 1st memory of looking threw a transit was when I was 12 years old, when dad brought it home to look at Sky Lab in 1974
I spent every summer working for dad, chaining with a steel chain, learning how to letter with Leroy. Then later learning everything I thought I needed to know by the time I went to college, only to later change my major to psychology from engineering.
After graduating college & becoming licensed at 28yrs of age, the passion of this great profession grew even stronger. I was a sponge and was even more enthralled with the field. I sought out the younger guys in the firm to mentor and teach. I attended continuing ed classes, I thought classes and presented seminars to title companies and real estate attorneys and r/e agents.
The passion for what I do has since diminished. It started about 10 years ago when the economy began to fail and now my desire and interest towards land surveying is all but gone.
I suppose the most compelling factor that has tarnished my perspective is the lack of respect we as a profession have. I continually hear folks say, 'a survey is a waist of money',or 'it's a bunch of crap that a survey should cost so much', or my least favorite, 'why did you become a surveyor when nobody needs what you offer, I hope your son doesn't become a surveyor'
I get up every morning and I go into the office with an optimistic attitude, but by 11:00am every morning I realize that today is going to be the same as yesterday. - Very little work & too many bills. - This profession has become more like a hobby and that I should find a better paying job.