It might be blasphemy to some, but I would add in a water cooler. What's a kaiser blade (mmm-hmm)?

Sounds like several folks like the pick-axe method. I used that as well as the rebar method for a good bit when working at an engineering/surveying f...

Do you know the Alt+Tab one? If I can get in the habit of using it so that I remember that one, that is going to be very handy! Thanks.

I don't think I'd take that client after the way it started.. In my experience, they don't really get better. I can't really blame him, Andy....

Other professions train their people how to run a business. Surveyors hold everything close to the vest. Hence, all the complaints about not chargin...

I think the challenge is how to decouple the value of a survey from the number of hours it will take to complete it. Hours per task is a concrete, eas...

I've not used one, but remember seeing them on a website years ago -

@thebionicman The lobbyist we used to have seemed really good. Any time we wanted to try to accomplish anything on the legislative front, one of thei...

Great example: the Kentucky Licensing Bill thread within the last couple of days. That state was looking to address avenues to expand the ability to ...

Every society should have a lobbyist building relationships with legislators, especially the committee chairs who hear bills on our key subjects. T...

@jflamm Thanks for the clarification. Changes can happen so quickly its hard to keep up with all of them, so I wasn't sure if that went away as well.

Meaningless numbers. Yeah. With the number of posts contrasting the difference in fees over the years, from a national (or more importantly intern...

I believe if you are an existing PLS in another state and have your NCEES Record, Kentucky will award you theirs after application. You don't have to...

@tom-bushelman I don't recall the state and the specifics of the case that prompted the decision, but it turned our that the way the testing requireme...

Isn't boundary work required to be done by or under direct supervision of a licensed surveyor? If so, it can only mean one thing. But I agree, would...

At no point does the 2-year degree language indicate that those "2 years of unsupervised experience" may not be concurrently acquired while at univers...

I did mischaracterize, not the unsupervised experience, but this statement "...and would have removed the board of licensure's ability to determine if...