My daughter up in Portland sent a text entitled ??Surveyor!? along with this photo she snapped while walking to work. Hard to tell on my phone, but it looks like the last 4 digit PLS licensee in the state of Oregon. What are the chances?
Are you trying to say that those of us with 4-digit PLS numbers are old?!
Are you trying to say that those of us with 4-digit PLS numbers are old?!
Not at all Wendell. The last 4 digit PLS number was issued in 1998. If a new licensee in the 1998 class was 14 years old, they'd just be a hipster today.
Not many 14 year olds getting a PLS license in Oregon. Or anywhere, for that matter. If you start at 18 or so, it would be a minimum of about 22+ before you would be eligible for a PLS, if that young, probably 26 or more if you do by experience, if I remember correctly.
Mike, I know you were joking!
The last 4-digit PLS license issued in Oregon was LS2887 issued to Mark Mayer on Jul7 14, 1998. Years ago (2008?) I compiled a nearly complete list of Oregon LS from #0001 issued to WC Galloway (Benton County Surveyor) on March 10, 1944 to those 5-digit scattered number licenses issued alphabetically by last name on June 13, 2008. The early numbers were extracted mostly by hand from the annual OSBEELS annual reports as they did not have a complete list electronically.
That fellow does look somewhat like your's truly, but it's not. I do work in that neighborhood quite a bit. That's Glisan at NW 23rd, the very corner where the gas explosion blew out all that plate glass in the fall of 2016.?ÿ?ÿ
That fellow does look somewhat like your's truly, but it's not.?ÿ
When I got the text I replied back "That's Mark Mayer!" but she's too shy to have said "howdy" to you.
Good thing, what with it not being you. I would have had hell to pay.?ÿ
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(addendum - but it still tickles me that after growing up with me always pointing out -"hey, look - a surveyor", she still does it on her own)?ÿ
Are you trying to say that those of us with 4-digit PLS numbers are old?!
Sorry, buddy. But if the shoe fits...... It's been 20 years, and the youngest you could theoretically sit for the exam in Oregon is 26. At that time it was 8 years experience or 8 years education plus experience, not counting anything before the age of 18. So it goes...?ÿ
Years ago (2008?) I compiled a nearly complete list of Oregon LS from #0001 issued to WC Galloway (Benton County Surveyor) on March 10, 1944 to those 5-digit scattered number licenses issued alphabetically by last name on June 13, 2008. The early numbers were extracted mostly by hand from the annual OSBEELS annual reports as they did not have a complete list electronically.
Tyler - I was looking at a copy of that database when I posted the?ÿoregon survey licensing trivia quiz?ÿa while back. My copy goes up to 2000 and says it was put together by you and Dan L., probably when he was on the board. I sent a copy to PLSO and I think they are planning on posting it on their web page. It is a great tool and was no doubt a lot of labor. Thanks for doing that.
Are you trying to say that those of us with 4-digit PLS numbers are old?!
Not at all Wendell. The last 4 digit PLS number was issued in 1998. If a new licensee in the 1998 class was 14 years old, they'd just be a hipster today.
Wow, I didn't realize I was the last generation of 4-digiters. 😀
I guess my OR PLS issued in 1993 makes me old??ÿ
SHG
I guess my OR PLS issued in 1993 makes me old??ÿ
SHG
Sorry, it isn't the license that's doing that... ??ÿ
I guess my OR PLS issued in 1993 makes me old??ÿ
SHG
Maybe you, but when I look in the mirror I see the same good looking dude that passed the exam back in 94.?ÿ Just a little more of me.
23rd & Glisan was our project.
Not just glass, that was minor - two buildings destroyed...
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I'm also in the last cohort of the 4 digits numbers... 20 years - sheesh
23rd & Glisan was our project.
Not just glass, that was minor - two buildings destroyed...
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I'm also in the last cohort of the 4 digits numbers... 20 years - sheesh
At first glance I thought that might be you in that picture. But I don't think that guy gets to the gym as often as you.
He's probably looking for a city bench mark that's supposed to be on the curb return right at his feet, BM#280, Elev. 142.82ft.
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It's not there...
He's probably looking for a city bench mark that's supposed to be on the curb return right at his feet, BM#280, Elev. 142.82ft.
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It's not there...
If he is looking for #1522 he can give it up. It's here on my desk.
LOL, All you 4 digit duffers get your AARP card yet or your extended medical coverage? ? Never know when that hip is going to blow out on yah.... ? ...?ÿ
I recall sitting for my OR. Exam in 2008 with a room full of folks 20-30 maybe.. Out of that Crew there were 5 of us under 30 that past and if I recall correctly at that time there were maybe less than 10 PLS's in the state under 30.?ÿ I wish they would have kept the old # system as 79419 doesn't really roll off the tongue.?ÿ Cheers to each and every one of yah! Happy Friday.
Good job Mark, never stopped working even as you were waiting for the light to change.?ÿ It appears you are looking back at the apparent PI of the building for a possible monument.?ÿ?ÿ
Mike, my daughter makes her home in Amsterdam and is continually sending me pictures of surveyors.?ÿ She says we all have the same look, they are just a little blonder in Amsterdam :). Jp
LOL, All you 4 digit duffers get your AARP card yet
You bet your 5-digiter ass I did.
... Out of that Crew there were 5 of us under 30 that past and if I recall correctly...
Lands sakes alive, things have changed with the additional whippersnapper digit. We "passed" the test back in the murky, long-ago?ÿ4 digit past.?ÿ
