Began part-time surveying in 1991, essentially full-time around 2000 or so. I'm 55 and just might get my license one day.
The only superior evidence is that which you haven't yet found.
47 in a couple of weeks
Has anyone done a tally of how many combined years of survey experience we have in this forum? How many centuries can we claim?
I'm 46 as of August, been surveying for 20 years, licensed for 10 of those.
I went to Fresno State as a Civil Engineering major, originally. I took one Surveying class and knew right then that I wanted to survey. Change my major that week and never looked back. And it has been one amazing ride since then.
And I do have to say that these forums are both a great source of information (both specific and general) and also of inspiration for me to continually "up my game" and improve my knowledge and ability as a surveyor. I see a lot of pride from all of these posts and it is well-placed and deserved. I'm glad to have my feet in this ring.
skwyd, post: 336573, member: 6874 wrote: Has anyone done a tally of how many combined years of survey experience we have in this forum? How many centuries can we claim?
As of tonight, I make the average age to be 50.3 yrs. of sixty-six respondents, with a range of 23-80 and a median of 55. Experience numbers are a little more difficult to tally but so far there are a total of 1149 yrs. reported (though there's a lot more unreported) with an average of 39.6 yrs. . . . carry on!
All right then, 40 years surveying - the median.
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Holy Cow, post: 335778, member: 50 wrote: Wondering of the total age range of those participating here.
Anyone over 75?
Anyone under 25?
Any attempt to obtain "[sarcasm]Has anyone done a tally of how many combined years of survey experience we have in this forum? How many centuries can we claim?[/sarcasm]" from the unresponsive replies, would in my opinion would be invalid.
27 Yrs and have enjoyed every single day.
I could call it forty years or I could call it twenty years. Depends on how you bill it out, you might say. I have not worked at land surveying for 40 hours per week times 50 weeks per year for 40 years. I have had varying levels of activity over those 40 years. Maybe that is the equivalent of 2000 hours times 10 years or 20 years. I really don't know. Maybe less than that. But, I have followed the profession for all 40 of those years and attempted to stay abreast of how it has changed.
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started at 18
licensed at 23
went solo at 28