In our little world here, we strive every day to ascertain just what will resonate with our audience.

The surveying community has always been a small community, and our experiences and education vary from region to region and state to state.

The observation that the number of surveyors seems to be decreasing and the related speculation about the future of surveying have occupied our professional community for a dozen years or so.

Sure, your very practical boss may have sent you to the user conference to attend as many classes and absorb as much technical information as possible.

A potential source of good employees may be your local Vo-Tech school. Mine had an AutoCAD class taught over two years.

Surveyors who are principals, owners or partners in private-practice firms wear two hats — professional and business executive.

In the old days when a survey crew consisted of three persons, usually male, training took place over years.

When the opportunity to join the POB team came up, I immediately recognized it would be a distinctly different cast of characters I would be working with.