Enter Demon 1:
He is the Obsessive Compulsive guy that makes us look up the whole title chain, and then research the Indians that used to live there. He is the guy that makes us run a closed traverse to everything. And, he delays a 1 ac survey, for 2 yrs, until all the above is done. Every nail, every rebar is tied into the NGS, and surveyed 3 ways to Sunday. He is the guy that makes us do a hatched area, of 2 square feet, with a detail, because the deed failed to close by a tenth of a foot. He is the one that makes us show a computed location 0.02' north of a Nice big Bernsten aluminum marker. Often, this is the demon that got us into surveying, in the first place. The Nostalgia, and the mystique.
Demon 2:
He is the business man, that wants to KILL demon one, and get the project done yesterday. He is the one that makes us set, or locate ONLY the front or easily visible markers, and flag those well. The ones at the rear, are never tied, or anything. He is they guy that makes us keep an obsessively neat desk, and please every client with low bills, and too many customers, (Too keep the money rolling in) and every survey has MAJOR loose ends all over it, while it it beautifully done in CAD.
Demon 3:
He is the Realtor in all of us. He is the one that TRIES to get the 2 demons above to play nice together. FASTER, and CHEAPER and PERFECT surveys, with NO conflicts is his motto.
He wants it all. NOW. No, yesterday.
In all of this, who gets shorted, is our families. Our wife, or Children, or our Church.
The life of a surveyor. It's tough sometimes.
All the best to you that integrate all the above into a well balanced and wealthy, successful surveyor, every time!
🙂
Nate
My first boss was definitely #1 and while it was really frustrating at times and I'm never going to be like that myself, I know I'm a much better Surveyor for it.
Amen to that Nate.:-D 😀 😉 😛 :angel:
We had a surveyor locally, number 1 all the way.
One day he went out in the garage and hanged himself from a rafter. He stood on the washing machine, set the noose and jumped off.
I tell you, though, if you follow one of his surveys his stuff iis exactly where he said he set or found it.
Been fighting those demons my whole life and have been a few of them at times cause working with idiots gets real tiresome had to vent right then and there, it was heavy load could not carry any farther.
Glad I'm in a better place these days, others do too.
Still haven't figured any way to fix an idiot or even repair stupid.
😉
> Been fighting those demons my whole life and have been a few of them at times cause working with idiots gets real tiresome had to vent right then and there, it was heavy load could not carry any farther.
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> Glad I'm in a better place these days, others do too.
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> Still haven't figured any way to fix an idiot or even repair stupid.
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> 😉
#1 is my nemesis. One of the hardest lessons I had to learn when a young PC was when close was close enough. I always wanted perfect. I once ran a 1 mile level loop that closed to 0.01' and I was pissed because it didn't close flat or at least 0.005'.
B-)