04/21/08, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NC/Blue Ridge foothills
Posts: 1,565
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Originally Posted by Fried Okra
As someone mentioned earlier - surveyors are retiring at a much higher rate than new surveyors are entering the field. While this may prompt the boards to allow civil engineers to seal surveys in the future, I don't see that happening without a big fight. What this does mean, in my opinion, is that quality surveying firms will be looking for good young talent and will pay decently for it - supply and demand in effect. Stay away from those companies that specialize in loan/mortgage surveys and house stakeout as that work is low paying and the most subject to downturns in construction/real estate markets.
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With the increases in technology, a few (very capable) surveyors can now do many times the work (and better) than many surveyors could just a decade or 2 ago.
The business is turning into the 'lean and mean'. I'm a prime example.
Of course, the counties, municipalities and utilities hire any GIS mapper they can find and the hiree does not even need to be any good at GIS.
Note - GIS (Geographical Information Systems) actually means Get-it-Surveyed by someone who knows how.
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Last edited by hillsidedigger; 04/21/08 at 09:28 PM.
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