3 Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon | www.plso.org I have spent most of my year as Chair trying to encourage people to enter the surveying profession. We have two general areas to recruit from, the younger school age group still learning what type of work is out there that may interest them and the person wanting to change professions because they found that land surveying seems to pull at their desires. From the PLSO Chair I’ve also developed friendships with many surveyors across the state who are more than happy to share their advice and tips and tricks about the area they primarily work in. As they say, “variety is the spice of life” and that is certainly true about the survey profession. The point I’m trying to make is that being a member of PLSO gives you opportunities that aid you in your daily work that a non-member may not have. There is nothing worse than finishing up a project and turning in that survey, then learning that you missed an important bit of information that could or would change your solution. I think that has happened to some if not all of us during our career. I have always been grateful for that phone call to someone who is willing to listen and to be able to evaluate the advice given. To ignore that call is closing your mind leading you into a corner you may not be able to survey out of. We try to help each other out and that helps our reputation with the public. Being a member of PLSO gives you the opportunity to meet other fellow surveyors at the monthly chapter meetings and at the Annual Conference to share stories and experiences and make new relationships. Get involved in PLSO and see what benefits appear that you never thought about would happen. It may save you from that embarrassing “oops” moment in your career. But being a PLSO member already, this is nothing new, is it? How to Send Us Your Work Please email the editor Vanessa Salvia with submissions: vsalvia@gmail.com. Your submission should be in .doc format. Please send images separately (not embedded in the document) and at the highest file size available (MB size range versus KB size range—larger sizes are encouraged). Please include the author’s name and email address or phone number for contact.
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