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How long does it take to learn how to survey?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:09 am
by LS 4722
About as long that it takes to learn how to treat a woman right!
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:15 am
by Warren Smith
And I'm still practicing both!
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:42 am
by T. S. Higgins
Several of the Engineers I work with were surprised when I told them after passing my exam two years ago that I was ready to start learning how to survey. The idea was that if you passed your exam, then you must already know how.
It's the same as when you get married; that's when you start learning real appreciation for your wife and how to treat her right. It's not about just going out and having a good time anymore.
Of course, any women that volunteer to marry a surveyor are a cut above the rest anyway.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:14 pm
by David Kendall
Thumbs up!
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 3:14 pm
by land butcher
LS 4722 wrote:About as long that it takes to learn how to treat a woman right!
Men are long dead and gone and there still isn't enough knowledge to learn that one.
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:31 am
by Lee Hixson
Sixteen years: the first 8 to learn how to do the work; the second 8 to learn how not to make mistakes.
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:55 am
by dewardkb
I disagree, I think Mr. Hixson is light by several decades on the "Learn how not to make mistakes" part.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 12:53 pm
by Stephen Johnson
Been doing it since 1967 and I am still learning. I don't plan to stop learning.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 5:03 pm
by Keithwill
Stephen.
1967 must have been a good year; that is the year that I began as a surveyor with a crew with BLM.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:16 pm
by Dave Karoly, PLS
"It's better when you help!" Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not.