> I am a WASP in group 4, next year I will move to group 5. I will have 30 years of licensure in a few months. I am licensed in Arkansas.
DDSM:beer:
[sarcasm]don't forget the part about us being allergic to $$$...[/sarcasm]
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Bracket 4, Licensed PLS for 26 years. Fourth generation surveyor....and damn proud of it.
Group 4 (56)
Woman
White
Started in 1979 (Florida)
Licensed in 1988 (Florida)
AA Degree from UF
Category 5 going on 6.
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Licensed since 2006 (then 38) only in VA.
Caucasian with an Associates Degree in Land Surveying Technology from Glenville State in WV.
Been surveying since my teens with my father, but didn't take it seriously until my 20's.
Carl
Well this is a whole different kind of survey! I'm game, here is me:
I'm in age bracket 2 (30's, barely), white male.
Highest degree is an MS in Geology, and working toward a PhD in Geophysics.
Just for the record, I still consider myself a surveyor over a geologist... 😀
The BLS website (bls.gov ?) should have a full analysis of the profession. This is interesting, I wonder if this beerleg survey will differ from the BLS data.. Post a couple graphs of your data when you're done!
Cheers,
My first trip through was general ministry arts. Second time around the focus was on counseling. Over the course of a few decades it became obvious that my education was not for the reasons one would think. Yes I pastored for a while. Also did prison ministry and spent some time in the old soviet union teaching.
In the end I believe I simply needed the foundation to get me through life. I use what I learned more than I ever thought possible. With (hopefully) a few decades left who knows what it will carry me through next...
At my first job after college one of my co-workers had studied seriously to be a Catholic priest. By the time I met him he was married with one child. Could have knocked me over with a feather when he told us about his prior goal in life. Probably a good thing he gave it up. A couple ounces of wine and he was bouncing off the wall and saying things to people that definitely should not have been said.
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This seems more common with surveying than any other profession I can think of. My neighbor was the one that got me into the field as a rodman, and then he hired my brother too. At one point or another, we also worked with all three of the bossman's sons in the field.
Do you think the trend of hiring ones's own sons is from taking advantage of the most obvious source of cheap labor, or residual from the days of the master-apprentice system?
> Do you think the trend of hiring ones's own sons is from taking advantage of the most obvious source of cheap labor, or residual from the days of the master-apprentice system?
I think the reason is the same as it has always been: Small businesses tend to hire family members, friends or nearby acquaintances. References are available and keep the money in the local pool.
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> Do you think the trend of hiring ones's own sons is from taking advantage of the most obvious source of cheap labor, or residual from the days of the master-apprentice system?
I would say that your statement, along with general companionship have large percentages at play. I surveyed with Dad as the 3rd person usually. Dad worked for a large natural gas corporation (as a PE designing transmission lines) during the week and surveyed on the weekends (under his OH LS and WV PE, it was legal until '88). I was drug along at first, but then usually went willingly as I grew a little older. It took me a long time to "get it"... hey, I was a teenager. Then after awhile, it's about all that I found interesting.
Category 6, just turned 66, white male, BS-mathematics, licensed 1974, self-employed since 1976, NC
University of Kentucky BSCE graduate, PE / PLS, Licensed since 1984, Age Group 4 but not for much longer, white male.