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Bruce Small
Bruce Small
@bruce-small
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Joined: February 6, 2011 3:35 pm
Last seen: May 30, 2026 6:54 pm
Topics: 227 / Replies: 1346
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RE: Finish school, or stick with it?

Stick it out. I understand your frustration at the 4th year classes, but you'll need that degree if you want to get registered. Or, look at it this wa...

15 years ago
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RE: Technology and Jobs

(a) A lot of people are paid a lot of money to design, manufacture, and sell that high tech equipment. It isn't that jobs have disappeared - other job...

15 years ago
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RE: 2.6 m listing, $600 survey?

Rambleon:Are you my long lost brother? We seem to have the exact same philosophy.

15 years ago
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RE: Geomatics video & the US Bureau of Labor Statistics

My personal experience with the Bureau of Labor would best be described as bureaucratic incompetence. In the 1970s when things were bustling and we ne...

15 years ago
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RE: Tucson monument help

John was a dear friend for years, and one of the best surveyors in Tucson. Wonder if his son, JD, would be able to find a tie to the handwell in their...

15 years ago
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RE: Advertising in Yellow/White Pages Anymore?

I've never been in the phone book. Not ever. Not White, not Yellow, and I seem to have survived. The key players know how to reach me, and that's all ...

15 years ago
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RE: Uh, maybe we shouldn't be working for this guy.

Me too. Could not open a plain text file.

15 years ago
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RE: County Clerk Records - Plats(Rant)

For years when I worked at Cella Barr in Tucson, our researcher, Billy Plunkett, the most trustworthy individual you could imagine, was allowed to tak...

15 years ago
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RE: Accepting credit cards

It Is In Your Best Interest...Only eleven years in business, but like you I've had exactly one client ask about paying by credit card.

15 years ago
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RE: Accepting credit cards

It Is In Your Best Interest...I fail to see how accepting a credit (or debit) card, with the resultant fee taken out of the invoiced amount, is in my ...

15 years ago
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RE: Why some people think their work is worth more

Simple DemographicsI disagree, perhaps because all of my clients come from referrals and hence they tend to see me as a professional problem solver, h...

15 years ago
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RE: Peer Review by local surveying chapters

The local chapter often has survey problems we discuss, not because of a complaint but because it is (usually) a great way to get feedback, bright ide...

15 years ago
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RE: Excel formulas for DMS to D.dddd and D.dddd to DMS

I am not familiar with Excel formulas, so I could be wrong, but shouldn't you add something like 1/7200 of a degree before the operation starts to acc...

15 years ago
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RE: Why can't they all be so quick?

BruceNo, I left Florida in 1978 for the wilds of Arizona.

15 years ago
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RE: Why can't they all be so quick?

When I graded the test in Florida, I can tell you we graded them the week following the exam, then the psychometrics experts went over the results to ...

15 years ago
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RE: Ethics - Q

I wouldn't touch it because that is just the kind of client I avoid. I refuse to deal with people like that. Life is too short for that nonsense.ps Wh...

15 years ago
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