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>>15 looks like a very comfy job, spending time outside, not physically strenuous. good for you anon. do you find it comfy? was it hard to get?

>>17 >looks like a very comfy job, spending time outside, not physically strenuous. >do you find it comfy? Well I guess that depends. If you're doing land surveying in the middle of nowhere it can be comfy. If you are working in construction in the middle of a city it can be more stressful. I worked in a suburban area, surveying for a company that was building the sewerage system across several neighbourhoods. For me it was a simple, repetitive job (optical levelling most of the time). >was it hard to get? No, I got it right after highschool (went to a trade school or technical school, were they teached topography), some teachers that also worked or were related to this particular company vouched for me. It was usual for this to happen, many classmates got hired the same way in other places. It was a good pay for someone just out of highschool but I stopped working and went to study something different in college.

>>18 So basically as boring and repetitive as an office job, but /out/side. Lucky wagie getting vit D

>>19 >boring Well I'll tell you a little story. One of these neighbourhoods, or rather, it's outskirts, was a dangerous place. The company had to bribe the "gangsters" (for lack of a better word) that "ruled" it in order for us to work safely. The leaders were drug dealers and I shit you not, one of them looked like a fatter version of Tuco Salamanca, the other one had some bullet wound in his stomach and was using one of those colostomy bags. They would escort us around, armed, to signal any other scumbag that our worksite was off-limits.

>>15 what do you even do

>>22 I already said it here >>18 , optical levelling. That is, you measure the difference in elevation over certain distances. In my case, so people know how much they had to dig along the roads to install new pipelines.