Forest Service Job
@bushaxeWhen I retired the Regional Office Land Surveyor showed up at the Forest Office, collected all the RTK GPS equipment and hauled it away. Nobody used it since.
That's one of the best candid and relevant postings on govt work. There's always a few great people and unfortunately gobs of mediocre and worse, pension downhill avoiders of anything work related.
The one thing that really burns my ass ( other than a 3 ft flame) is the people who state they only have 3 more years, and dont want to do too much.....
Results can vary greatly, but in general, it's hard to get larger groups of people who know/ believe they're nearly irreplaceable to get deeply motivated to really work hard, save the Military.
Congratulations. Making a move of any kind mid-career is challenging. It's good to hear you are capable of taking that challenge.
Looking for a job as a Land Surveyor? The Forest Service is hiring! The duty station is at the Regional Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is a GS-1373 position. If you are interested comment your email address and I will send you the Outreach Notice.
I worked for the Forest Service when I first got out of college. One of the most rewarding experiences of my professional career. Very inspiring.
My sister works for USDA-Forest Service. She runs a visitor center. She wears the "pickle suit."
She explained their requirements for various things, the level of paperwork and beuracracy is astounding. I thought we were bad but the Federal Government takes red tape to a whole new level.
My motto is "no purchasing," I'm not purchasing anything, don't send me to purchasing training I will refuse to go. I told my boss last year that he needs an Analyst for that sort of thing, take one of these new positions and change it from Land Surveyor to analyst. It would make your life a whole lot easier. What happened to the idea of having a secretary or executive assistant for mundane paperwork tasks and interfacing with the drones in accounting? Why do you have a high paid boss doing typing? It's stupid.
@skeeter1996 It is all about the word play for sure. When I had just EAS??ed out of the USMC and was a Trimble Certified Instructor an particular agency had purchased some equipment and software. We had given instructions on how to properly install TGO and other software and in which order. Well when I arrived to perform my training on the Survey side non of the software would work. ADMIN Rights was not a person local and well everything was scrambled. They got me on the phone with the IT guy who passed me up the chain to another and another. Finally the Lady with the credentials gave the rights to a local person so we could uninstall and remove everything Trimble from the registry and reinstall. After 2 days of this we were finally ready to get on with TGO training. Then they had installed something on the TSCe that prevented the field guys from even using the darn thing. Was a nightmare. Bluetooth was the boogie man and windows CE net was not secure enough to hook to the computer??s. So they bought a stand alone computer one to download and then transfer via a external hard drive to the office computers.
Ah, yes. Security is Job #1. Computers are the Devil's playground. Avoid them.
I have told the story before of my days working for a Government contractor and the fight I had to go through to purchase a programmable calculator. The highest muckety-muck in charge of all things computable up my chain of authority denied my purchase request. I had to prove to him that all data would always be contained within that handheld calculator and not transferable in any other way. The calculator was never to leave the property. I also had to show him some programs I could create to greatly simplify some of the mundane tasks required under our contract. Now, that is what sold him.
