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We’re all work from rig here baw

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I have my PE

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I don’t do a ton of survey work

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Good, as it should be.



Also a little confused about what you are asking. Any work that actually requires a PLS, would still need an actual PLS. I'm not seeing how you would be able to help. Are you looking to work as a technician under a PLS to do the CAD work?

Also, writing legal descriptions should be left to surveyors. There I said it.

Honestly, if your current employer does survey work and you are considering “moonlighting” with another employer, I think you are asking for trouble. If you do anything that can be remotely perceived as competition with your current company, sooner or later they’ll find out and you’ll be quickly canned.

Good side money can be made of you can do an ALTA Survey worth a damn.

Yeah I don’t have my PLS, but am interested in getting one day. Basically just looking to see if there is a market for the remote work related to surveying - taking field points and doing the drafting in CAD, writing the legals, putting the plat together. Would be working under a PLS obviously.

Just looking to make a little extra money from the house (that I could do early mornings, at night when kids are in bed), while learning a skill that I’m interested in. My current employer doesn’t allow remote work, so if I go to them it’d be an extra 10-15 hours a day from the office. If this part time remote thing doesn’t work out then I’ll probably go to them and see if there’s any options for me to get heavier into the surveying side and what that would look like.

As far as the conflict - we are strictly in MS, my idea would be to reach out to a metro out of state and propose only working on projects in that area. Again, there may not be a market for anything like this, so it might be a mute point. From y’all’s answers it doesn’t sound like this is something common that people do.

Yes, essentially working as technician under a PLS, but in a part-time (15-20 hours a week), remote capacity. I might be shortchanging myself on my experience, we do a lot of site and subdivision plans and plat reviews for a few nearby towns, so I’m around survey work a lot, I’ve written my fair share of legals (all reviewed by a PLS..), so I have a decent amount of experience, just not enough to sit for a PLS. But I can tell that the engineering side is not something I can myself doing for the next 30 years (at least not in a consistent, everyday role) but I’ve really enjoyed the survey work I’ve gotten to do. So this is a way to take that a little further and just see if it’s something I could see myself getting further into (while also making a little extra money doing it).

You do, wouldn’t be signing off on anything. Essentially looking to be a remote technician who takes the field points, does the necessary drafts, writes the legals and sends that onto the PLS for review.

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Whoever owns the company. I wouldn’t do any field work. I’d be the person who gets the data from the guys in the field and draws that into CAD and any misc. drafting and would then give to a PLS to review and stamp.