>>2772515>>>2766695>>2767941Actual surveyor here ama, one of these anons is right I used to work deep innawoods marking out gas wells which was fucking up the environment. But with this I got to work with ecologists and archaeological contractors and I learnt a lot. There is definitely jobs out there where you would be working full-time with those contractors mapping out their data sets, also I am assuming there is jobs which requires capturing the linework/points for hiking trails etc.
A lot of the work is construction based, but its a very very broad industry, you could find jobs where you just do construction and jobs where you just do hydro-graphical (drive around in a boat and pick up sea/fresh water bed levels) or you could be scaling bridges and scanning them to mm accuracy.
In my experience its a 70/30 field-work/office-work ratio, jobs take a lot of planning and once they are completed the data takes a lot of processing. You also need to be quite handy with mathematics/trigonometry if you want to take the career seriously, you could just get an easy job where you only do GPS work.
