You know you are an aging surveyor when...

When stuff you layed out for construction is being torn down to make way for new construction.

...you can recall surveying down the median of an interstate freeway with relatively little concern at the time, for errant/distracted drivers.

When you retrace a survey you did 25 years ago for another company and don't realize it until you're halfway through the job.

when your co-workers begin calling you "the legend"

when the land of six Saturdays and then there is Saturday looks better all the time.

Posted by: Dave Tlusty

... when you're now buying lots that you surveyed 38 years ago.?ÿ

I did this. My house is in one of the first subdivisions I surveyed after moving to Texas in 2004.

When you're buying lunch for as much as you used to earn in a day.

When you remember being able to set up an instrument out front of a school to get a benchmark without having the cops called on you...?ÿ

When you look at the beautifully designed certificate hanging on the wall, ?ÿhand painted, and see the date. Yet alone the low Registered Surveyor number. (they don't make them like that anymore)?ÿ

Also when you find old marks from a 1970 survey by self!?ÿ

You know you can still find in your truck a couple of plumb bobs, a 200' steel tape, and eleven "arrows."

Cheers,

Henry

Posted by: m & h taylor

You know you can still find in your truck a couple of plumb bobs, a 200' steel tape, and eleven "arrows."

Cheers,

Henry

That's the truth. Brought a tear to my eye.

Nate

You apply online for a license in an adjoining state (or Federal District in this case) that requires 8000 hours of experience and the bar graph that shows what you submitted reads 59,340 hours

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Posted by: James Fleming

You apply online for a license in an adjoining state (or Federal District in this case) that requires 8000 hours of experience and the bar graph that shows what you submitted reads 59,340 hours

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slacker

When you started surveying you actually "split curbs, proceeded as shown"!