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.