It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."

Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.