Surveyings Future? 2

[beelzebub]

The decline of surveying in Australia is rearing its ugly head faster and faster. Is this happening everywhere else?

Between wages being disgustingly low and the fact that no one knows what it is Surveyors do, resulting in the intake of Surveying students becoming smaller and smaller, the number of surveyors out there that are willing to remain in the industry is appalling.

Team this with the fact that many of the people who do remain in the industry, whether they be surveyors or fieldhands, only remain in the industry because they are basically unemployable elsewhere and only retain their jobs by virtue of being licensed or by the sad fact that to hire and train a fieldhand to a subpar level to replace the subpar employees is just not feasible.

Is this a widespread problem or just the disillusioned rant of a jaded "young" man?

 

[beelzebub]

i couldnt agree more rick, i'm only at the beginning of my career, yes i have worked in the industry for a while but have only just become the principle surveyor for a large construction job. checks are everything.

the only problem is that with the new technologies and the speed at which we "should" be doing things the people waiting for us are ready to go bull at a gate as soon as we put a stake in the ground. barely has my chainy moved off a mark before an excavator is digging the trench i am setting out. this does make checks a little difficult when the pressure is on everyone to work faster not smarter.

personally i take all the time i need. doing it properly once is still quicker and cheaper than doing it twice.

 

[jheidt2543]

I agree with RDK, well said! Just to restate the point, it is not the technology that is at fault, but the the guy behind the gun. There is more to surveying than point and shoot.