Never ignore that feeling at night just before you go to sleep! Last night I had a feeling that something was not just right with a boundary I've been working on. Went over everything again this morning and discovered a pretty big title issue. I met with the client and brought it to his attention and he's on his way to see the attorney that made the "oversight" to get a corrective deed filed.
In 1978 I was staking a 96" force main sanitary sewer, a rather large project (the wet wells looked like 40' deep swimming pools and the pumps were as big as concrete trucks) . This was back in the day when we set instruments up on angle points and all that noise...anyway I went home and ate dinner and went to sleep one night...and sat straight up in bed at 2 AM realizing I had figured the wrong side of a triangle...which made all the offset stakes I had set about 2 feet off. I was livid. By the time I got out there the next morning the super had actually noticed the error and was waiting for me...
You're right...NEVER ignore that 'nagging' feeling that something isn't right.
Don't know how many times that has happened. Or the other... can't figure it out and doesn't make sense.. so you sleep on it and figure it out in your sleep. Love my job!!!
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I sometimes or most of the times, get that "want to recheck all computations" feeling after submitting a project.
You know that you have adjusted all the traverse, checked the level loops, checked if backsight/foresight traverse distances more or less are similar, entered the corect coordinates for the govt base gps control point, used the correct projection system and other countless aspect of the work;
always have that nagging feeling mate always!
Those who have been around for very long at all can tell similar stories. Something far deep inside your mind isn't happy. Your conscious mind can't seem to figure it out, but your subconscious will.
