Some states allow that. As long as your company has a physical office and staff in the state where the work is being done. More or less a corporate license to do business in that state.
Personally, I wouldn't stamp a survey that I didn't do myself. That includes the research, calculations and being on site at least once. But then I was never in the bidness. I was employed by the gov't to build roads and bridges.
Last edited by Borderland; 07-14-2021 at 08:00 PM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
Call it College Cargo Cultism- the cult belief that if you get your degree, then you are exempt from hard work forever.
And like a lot of superstitions, it's hard to pin down where someone has said as much, but the belief is there, not to mention the subtle pressure to get a degree, or be one of those toiling losers.
It's funny how the old Aristocratic belief that labor and toil somehow soils and degrades those who participate has come back into fashion.
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
There's pretty decent money in the trades here but we keep circumventing the shortage by allowing temporary foreign workers at minimum wage, which holds the wages well below what they should be. You go to lots of big construction sites and entire trades are imported.
I miss trades work though, that's for sure. I really thought I'd be happier designing stuff but man, I am bored to death and can almost feel my brain atrophy as I no longer have to solve problems on the fly the same way.
This is a thread where I built a boat I designed and which I very occasionally update with accounts of using it, which is really fun as long as I'm not driving over logs and blowing up the outboard.
https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....ilding-a-skiff
Someday I’m gonna post a hell of a story. Today isn’t that day, but someday. I’ve witnessed a level of incompetence, failure of leadership, and complete failure to grasp the realities of the current situation that probably won’t be believed. The amazing thing is that when I do post it, every single word will be true.
I’ll offer this for a teaser/trailer: I work at a place that is 99% managed by ostriches that reached their current positions thanks to the Peter Principle. There is one exception, I report to him, but he is fighting a losing battle and he knows it.
Edited to fix grammar.
Last edited by Jared; 07-14-2021 at 08:18 PM.
As we've discussed before, I was in the boundary/cadastral surveying world. It was common place in our state to have one licensed guy and several crews of qualified guys (most of which were pursuing their own license). I was a party chief for a couple of these outfits and if you were doing an uncomplicated boundary survey, it either closed or it didn't. You knew within a few minutes of turning the last angle and shot the last distance. Those type of surveys went right to the drafting department and were produced into plats. I know for a fact that once AutoCad came around the "stamps" were stored in the computer and applied digitally. If it was a good crew doing the work, it was rarely reviewed by the licensed surveyor of record. The licensed guy really came into the picture on legality questions and complicated geodetic computations. In all honesty, the licensed guys spent more time booking work, going to planning meetings, and managing the help than anything.
In Alaska, construction surveying isn't a licensed profession. They only called us boundary guys to establish the rights of ways on highway projects, and run topo work. Once that was done and the design was completed the union construction surveying guys rolled in.
Roger that.
I miss those 20 million dollar construction projects. It's like a Normandy beach invasion without the people actually being killed. Just hundreds of thousands of dollars riding on your performance every week. We used to have a meeting every Monday morning and the contractor would lay out the weeks work schedule. Critical path was a thing and everyone needs to be committed to schedules. You didn't want to that guy in a contractor claim for a completion date penalty. A little different than an unemployment check that didn't arrive on time.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
I’m wondering if this depends on if you are a stem graduate staying in a stem field or not…
I have 11 direct reports; all with at least a BS. 9 of them bust their ass consistently delivering more than I have a right to ask. The other 2 do ok, and just have different priorities it is hard to argue with.