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A little rough but very good point. I studied and then restudied every book I could get my hand on for hours a day for four years and used a highligh...
I see where you are coming from and call me old school if you will, but it is my belief that nobody should be running any software routine if they don...
Making money is a relative term, you can "make money" on one job and lose money on another, sometimes intentionally. There are times when I will basi...
I am a non degreed PLS, you'll never see my saying that I agree with the degree requirement but I will agree with you that if you have been surveying ...
In just one example, in the market crash of 2008, I was running survey in a satellite office for a large firm. When the market crashed, they closed t...
If you are asking me, I don't care about a "big firm" from thousands of miles away reaching out to several others as well through google searches. If...
That depends on how you look at things, meaning from a business or human perspective. Surveyors tend to look at the human side and resist cutting bac...
You'd be lucky to be paid in less than two months after closing.
I've done a few when I worked in a different place now refuse to even entertain submitting a proposal on one. These clearinghouses are not interested...
It irks me in other social survey groups how nobody who thinks that using RTK or base/rover set ups are going to be exempt from the magnitude of the s...
there is absolutely no need to do that in today's world. Most survey related modern platforms allow you to set up a template that you chose the forma...
I see absolutely no advantage in introducing AI into our career field unless it involves some mundane task that does not need to be checked by a human...
I have a friend that inherited a 2 acre property from his parents who built their family home on it. In the back of the property is a fenced in rough...
There are several questions, the first being, at what point in time was the cemetery designation applied and by who? If it was shown on a plan prior ...
You are correct, it was established by an act of state legislature, not congress and it sounds like I was wrong on the war too. The Leni Lenape resis...
That very well could be because the further you move from the northern GA line and going into Florida, Spanish methods and measurements prevailed and ...
TN was never a part of the established 13 colonies, it may have been a part of one of the original grants going back to the early 1600's, and, if it w...
Keeping in line with what you are saying, you speak of reservations made in the mid to late 1700's when the grants going to loyalists and eventually f...