A surveyor is:
A alot of things. Besides a "deal killer".
He is a bag boy, who bags up the groceries, and carries them to your car.
(Puts all the scattered descriptions, into one description, and packages them, for your use)
He is a scale at the Produce section, of the local grocery store.
He analyzes how much grapes (acres) you have in the scale.
He is the only relationship that the bank has, with where their 250k went.
He is the person in between the buyer, and the seller, and all those problem occupation lines.
He is the yellow jacket in the realtor's hind quarters.
He is the obstacle between the buyer and seller. (I could sell this xx*&^% piece of land, if that idiot surveyor would just agree with my moving of the fence, 15yrs ago!)
----- and so forth!
HUGH L. GEORGE, TEXAS RPS #1 STATED IN THE TSA SHORT COURSE IN 1956:
ÛÏLET ME SAY FIRST, THAT IN MY JUDGEMENT THERE IS NO OTHER PROFESSIONAL MAN WHO MUST BE VERSED IN SO MANY SUBJECTS AS THE MODERN TEXAS SURVEYOR.
1.HE MUST BE SKILLED IN THE USE OF SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS, DRAFTING EQUIPMENT AND CALCULATING MACHINES.
2.HE MUST BE A MATHEMATICIAN OF THE FIRST ORDER
3.HE MUST BE NO ORDINARY BOTANIST
4.HE MUST BE A FAIR ABSTRACTER
5.HE MUST BE A CAPABLE PHOTOGRAPHER
6.HE MUST BE A GOOD PUBLIC RELATIONS MAN
7.HE MUST BE AN EXPERT INVESTIGATOR8.
HE MUST HAVE A CATALOGED KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THE BOUNDARY LAW THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN TEXAS
9.HE MUST HAVE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN NATURE
10.HE MUST HAVE A KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR
11.AND MOST IMPORTANT OF THEM ALL, HE MUST HAVE UN-PROVOCATIVE PATIENCE
SURVEYORS, LIKE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, HAVE PERSONALITIES, ALL OF WHICH ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT. EVEN THOUGH THE GENERAL METHODS OF SURVEYING HAVE BEEN MUCH THE SAME, STILL EVERY SURVEYOR DEVELOPS CERTAIN TRAITS, WHICH LEAVE A DEFINITE PATTERN. THESE PATTERNS, WHEN CAREFULLY STUDIED, LEAVE A TRAIL WHICH CAN BE FOLLOWED, AND LEADS TO IDENTIFICATION OF THE PARTICULAR SURVEYORÛªS WORK.Û
Here's probably the best definition.:)
Monte, post: 394937, member: 11913 wrote: HUGH L. GEORGE, TEXAS RPS #1 STATED IN THE TSA SHORT COURSE IN 1956:
ÛÏLET ME SAY FIRST, THAT IN MY JUDGEMENT THERE IS NO OTHER PROFESSIONAL MAN WHO MUST BE VERSED IN SO MANY SUBJECTS AS THE MODERN TEXAS SURVEYOR.
I have a solar compass that H.L. George once owned that, before him, belonged to George M. Williams, one of the select few appointed as State Surveyors. H.L. George was clearly a scholar and a gentleman, and I think I know how he would regard the Age of Button Pushing that is in the process of arriving. The type that Mr. George was describing was a learned generalist, the INTJ, as opposed to the generation of technologists who wait in the wings.