The only way to make this job truly suck is to complain.
Rain, snow, cold, wind, thorns, whatever...if you can manage to keep from complaining about management, the equipment, the weather, your co-worker and all the rest, then it is still a great job to be a field surveyor even with all the challenges.
Yeah, I know chicken and egg, but in my experience complaining is the chicken and hating your job is the egg that it lays. That is true of many jobs.
Just today I was remembering with a PLS that being in the field was something that we enjoyed at the time and would do again.
My first party chief told me how important a good attitude was. Funny thing, he complained himself into a really cruddy last couple of years with the company. I have tried to learn from that.
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I've tried complaining to my boss but it doesn't help a bit.?ÿ He just looks back at from the mirror with a look that seems to say, "Stop looking at me and get your ass in gear."
Usually people that complain all the time aren??t really happy until they??ve dragged you down with them.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
The only way to make this job truly suck is to complain.
Rain, snow, cold, wind, thorns, whatever...if you can manage to keep from complaining about management, the equipment, the weather, your co-worker and all the rest, then it is still a great job to be a field surveyor even with all the challenges.
Yeah, I know chicken and egg, but in my experience complaining is the chicken and hating your job is the egg that it lays. That is true of many jobs.
Just today I was remembering with a PLS that being in the field was something that we enjoyed at the time and would do again.
My first party chief told me how important a good attitude was. Funny thing, he complained himself into a really cruddy last couple of years with the company. I have tried to learn from that.
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Thanks.?ÿ I needed to read that again.
someone who was dealing with far worse In his world came up with this version:
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I hired this old classmate of mine. I sent him out to locate a 1/4 corner on an oil/gas job. It was off a two track that crossed a hay field. There was a big snow drift blocking the two track so he had to hoof it to the 1/4 corner. He had to hike the last 1000' to the 1/4 with the rover to locate it.?ÿ
When he got back he couldn't stop complaining about walking that 2000' (across a flat field). At first I thought he was sarcastic, finally after all the bitching I looked at him and asked if he understood who he was talking too? Meaning did he realize what I actually do in the field.?ÿ
He lasted until he got into a wreck at a drive-thru one Sunday morning after having a 6 and a1/2 pack before 11am. My insurance wouldn't let him drive company trucks anymore.?ÿ
Live Your Life
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion;
respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.Love your life,
perfect your life,
beautify all things in your life.?ÿSeek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
even a stranger, when in a lonely place.Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.When it comes your time to die,
be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death,
so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
?ÿChief Tecumseh 1768-1813
Wow, man, thanks!
I am a fan of that guy.
I have little tolerance for people who complain about the job they asked for. ?ÿ One reason I??ve worked alone for 20 years.
@holy-cow You're lucky your boss still listens to you
... and when you consider what he was looking at, and understanding the inevitable destruction of the native American population, in the language he was being indoctrinated to assimilate to, from?ÿthese people from a foreign land.
to have that kind of perspective is just totally profound and hard to conceptualize.
yeah, I got no beefs when I wake up, I'm alive and breathing and yeah!
He may have seen it as inevitable, but he was going to slow it down at all costs and died fighting on the British side in the war of 1812.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh
I've tried complaining to my boss but it doesn't help a bit.
I think I know who controls "Cow World"...but hc won't admit it... ?????ÿ
I have little tolerance for people who complain about the job they asked for.
Exactly
Go do something else if this is causing you so much pain.
Unfortunately, though, some older, miserable field guys are stuck doing what they do since they never grew up and took the initiative to actually chose something else.?ÿ And this is all they're (barely) capable of now
What beautiful and engaging words from Chief Tecumseh. Thanks Jitterboogie it??s worth reading daily. ?????ÿ
@flga-2-2?ÿ
I've kept that on my wall or somewhere since I was a struggling teen.
Thanks go to the writer, and you're welcome from another person whom appreciates it the same way.
@dougie?ÿ
far too often.
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I'm learning to pick my battles, esp with my internal frustrations on that topic.
It's all about your tolerance level; how much are you willing to tolerate...
Everyone is different; everyone has heart. Some people's heart is in the wrong place. That's not a bad thing, just different.
@dougie?ÿ
Hey Rebar, or Doobie (your choice) I don't worry about that stuff (jerk employees) anymore, retired he, he, he. ?????ÿ
My only current problem is trying to bribe my way back into the shuffleboard club.