You are first one and last one on job site. Get to play God and tell people where to build shit. Not much physical labor, more mental. Surveying has a great tradition and has been a career for 2000 years.

Surveying will become easier and easier with technology and those who learn the technology will be running it and working easy.

If your a smart guy, get your Professional Land Surveyor stamp and you will make over 100k easy sitting in office stamping the maps. The average PLS holder is 55 and NOBODY goes into surveying. It's still a male dominated industry which wont change. Experience matters more than education.

The bonus. Your job title is. Party Cheif.