To stay or go...

elginduley · 2011-10-11T16:08:03Z

Ok... I've reached a point of cusp: Do I stay in surveying or leave entirely? Reason I ask is this: I have an opportunity to go back to school. I can choose a completely different field of study ... or, with difficulty, take courses that Florida will accept so that I can provide a piece of paper saying I went to college and then take a test. I have been doing surveying for 15 years now. 5 in Alabama and the remainder here. I have come back on surveyors that should have long ago had their licenses revoked and yet they continue to practice while I sit here unable to obtain a 4 year degree just so I can wait two more years to take a test and so on... I understand the theory behind requiring a 4 year degree. I have learned not to respect or trust it. I have the last position available in my town doing land surveying. All the other companies have gone back into the bush and almost everyone at my company has been laid off. I've been lucky. I can keep going but I feel stumped because I do not have my license. So I can either change or deal? Btw, I'm 35 so I figure I got a lot of life left.

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> IF he's selling calenders he's probably doing better than most of us.:-|

I know a surveyor here that has made more money this summer selling and installing silt fence than he did in land surveying.

Posted : October 13, 2011 7:32 am

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