The job, the clients, and the previously existing monuments, and the records. They all require that you maintain a state of learning. Getting a Surveyor's license, does NOT mean that you have solved all this. It means you have the opportunity to solve it. Go Solve it.
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 364482, member: 291 wrote: The job, the clients, and the previously existing monuments, and the records. They all require that you maintain a state of learning. Getting a Surveyor's license, does NOT mean that you have solved all this. It means you have the opportunity to solve it. Go Solve it.
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Yep - when I got my license I learned I knew next to nothing. I viewed it as a license to learn and have been doing so ever since!
I took my test in 1988. I knew more then than I know today.
A lot of surveyors know more when they get their license than they do now.
As a new licensee I am avoiding that pitfall. I've reading books and all the info I can.
WarrenWard, post: 364508, member: 8338 wrote: I took my test in 1988. I knew more then than I know today.
Sometimes it seems like that. But think of all the experiences under your belt. And whether you know it or not, they guide your work and decisions even today.
paden cash, post: 364511, member: 20 wrote: Sometimes it seems like that. But think of all the experiences under your belt. And whether you know it or not, they guide your work and decisions even today.
Yeah, except the experiences keep taking up brain matter previously occupied by trivia.
In truth, surveying is a deep well. I'm sure there's a bottom but I haven't found it. I'm glad too. I need the challenge. I wouldn't do so well making widgets in an assembly line, or filling out forms in a cubicle. That life works for many and that's great. I like the constant demand to learn that Nate described.
Agree 100%.
Reminds me of our requirements here to continue our professional development to ensure continued registration.
"They all require that you maintain a state of learning"
Mm. That's more in line with the requirements than attending conferences, playing golf, bending the elbow (booze-ups) and listening to things that have absolutely nothing to do with establishing boundaries, all for the purpose of getting Brownie points to demonstrate our fitness to survey boundaries.
Shawn Billings, post: 364512, member: 6521 wrote: Yeah, except the experiences keep taking up brain matter previously occupied by trivia.
In truth, surveying is a deep well. I'm sure there's a bottom but I haven't found it. I'm glad too. I need the challenge. I wouldn't do so well making widgets in an assembly line, or filling out forms in a cubicle. That life works for many and that's great. I like the constant demand to learn that Nate described.
Not only Learning, but sharing what we've learned. Teach!
BeerLeg Rocks!
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Much of what we "knew" way back then is not needed today so forgetting it is no big deal. I used to be a whiz with a slide rule, for example.
The "trivia" I keep forgetting are things like names, how old I am, the last time I ate, important dates...
Nate The Surveyor, post: 364482, member: 291 wrote: The job, the clients, and the previously existing monuments, and the records. They all require that you maintain a state of learning. Getting a Surveyor's license, does NOT mean that you have solved all this. It means you have the opportunity to solve it. Go Solve it.
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I got my LSIT when I was still in college. Then, when I got out of college and started working as a chainman for a small company, the party chief (who had been surveying for about 10 years but didn't have any formal education) said to me, "You probably know more than I do." I told him that I knew I was ready to start learning how to survey.
About 10 years later, when I finally got my license, one of my co-workers (who had been licensed for years) said, "Well, you have a license, you should know all of this stuff now!" I told him that I knew enough to know that he knew a hell of a lot more than me. But if he would continue to tell me all of the things he knew, I might know more.
I've always taken every day of my career as a surveyor as an opportunity to learn. And I've been learning for about 22 years now (as a surveyor, that is). I don't know it all, I likely never will, but that won't keep me from trying to learn it!
Shawn Billings, post: 364648, member: 6521 wrote: The "trivia" I keep forgetting are things like names, how old I am, the last time I ate, important dates...
This is my SECOND year to be 50 yrs old!
(I forgot, and told everybody I was turning 50, when I turned 46!)
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I was so much smarter before I started learning to recognize those things I didn't know.