>>2857510>What background do you need for this? For some reason I'm always jealous of you niggers just standing by the roadside twiddling your equipment.My background was carpentry and I used to always see surveyors come onto my jobsite and I was jealous. So I went to university and studied a course in it, you can get jobs without a degree but they will only take you so far on the pay scale. A good way to get a foot in the door (ausfag here btw dunno what it is like in other countries) It should be a degree as there are a lot of things to learn, in reality background doesn't matter as long as you aren't stupid with mathematics, you can do whatever you want to do whenever you want.
>>2857515>Land survey anons, how do I really get /out/ on the job? I work as a construction surveyor right now, but I don’t like building subdivisions in the suburbs all day. When I finish school I want to survey glaciers or mountains or something. No PLS yet but I’m working on it.I think the simplest answer is to just change company anon, I do believe it is quite rare to get a surveying job which is specifically /out/ only. I used to work a job which sent me to virgin land to obtain data for potential gas wells. This sent me truly into the in the middle of nowhere which was very neat, sometimes awful land and sometimes beautiful scenery. My current job has me doing construction and literally everything else. most surveying leads to construction of habitat unless you get a rare job surveying within the ecological field with other professions. Ironically the most /out/ I have gone with surveying is with oil/gas giant companies like anon here.
>>2857524Just look at the scope of work when applying and ask questions during interviews, follow the company on LinkedIn to see their work etc.
