If you're physically fit, enjoy working outside in brutal winter/summer temps (spring and fall is very nice though), don't mind getting rained on, getting muddy or dusty; getting bit by ticks, skeeters,chiggers, stung by everything that can sting you and you're not afraid of snakes then surveying is a great and rewarding job. If you are fit and have any intelligence you can be trained on the job and advance quickly. If you want to get registered or start your own company you will need some schooling/studying. Most employers will help you with that w $$$, training and support. You will never be bored doing field work........boundaries,topos, asbuilts, wetlands, Altas, loan surveys,fence surveys,farm surveys, subdivision staking, construction staking=roads,c&g, sewer,storm,water,grading,powerlines, foundations, etc; locations, flood/floodplain surveys,landfills, wetland remediation etc. It can be a very rewarding and satisfying career.
I talked to some youngsters from New Hampshire who came down to work on it who had never heard of chiggers until I told them that was what was covering them w itchy welts. You know your wrapped up when you have them on your arms and face! I swear they both looked like they had been shot w birdshot. There is a lot of swamp the pipeline will cross and some of the landowners are not happy at all about the pipeline crossing their land. Summer is the worst time of the year to be surveying through swamps/pocosins.
