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Posted by drew-r on December 28, 2020 at 3:50 pmHi all, new member as of today. I got word from the State that I’m a PLS so I figured I would stop lurking and sign up! I’ve been surveying for 15 years now, started in the Midwest (Chicago area as well as IN, MI, MN, OH, TX, NY) then came out West awhile back. My wife and I have been in SoCal for a few years now.
I hope to make some contributions to the community and learn as I go.
pls9362 replied 3 years, 3 months ago 14 Members · 21 Replies- 21 Replies
Welcome and congratulations! ????
Your friendly, virtual neighborhood WebmasterThanks Wendell, hopefully now I can get my two posts approved and I’m good ???
Welcome. Try to add as much as you take. We need new perspectives from time to time.
Congratulations on obtaining the PLS license.
Especially in CA, which has a notoriously low pass rate.
Congrats and Welcome!
@norman-oklahoma
That’s right, I feel very fortunate to have made the grade. I didn’t have to deal with things like the Subdivision Map Act in the Midwest. I passed on my second attempt and I had a year and a half break in between. I studied A LOT. ????
Are the numbers into five digits yet?
@norman-oklahoma It means more in CA! ????
9609 is currently the highest number issued, which includes this latest group. That is 9609 issued since 1891 in currently the most populated state in the US.
I have to admit I was happy to be a 4-digit, albeit a high one. 9603 here.
Iowa numbers PE and LS licenses in the same sequence, so crossed into 5 digits in the 1980’s.
Dual licensees then only have one number.
.Welcome and congrats. I’m licensed in 3 states and CA is pretty tough. 8081 here, but that’s just because I moved to CA late-ish in my career, unfortunately doesn’t make me young.
Welcome, friend. I wonder if we know anyone here in Indiana in common?
Both have been numbered sequentially here since the start. Dual licensees carry two numbers. My PE number is nearly nine times that of my LS number. Had I gone after separate licenses at the time I passed the PE that ratio would have been much higher as there was nearly eight years between the PE and the LS. In fact, the only way they started having four-digit numbers on the LS side was the rapid influx of qualified PE’s. Had no need for the separate LS until the law was changed stripping PE’s of being allowed to do boundary surveying under the PE. So, I get the privilege of paying double fees, being twice as likely to be audited and needing 50 percent more continuing education per renewal cycle, which comes one month apart every two years.
Welcome to the left coast. From northern CA.
Welcome and Congratulations on getting your license to learn! This is a great site for doing that.
I came up in the Evansville area, spent almost 20 years outside of Chicago. I went to a lot of ISPLS seminars back in the day and worked a lot of engineering jobs as well as survey. I took all of Tony Gregory’s classes at Purdue and still keep in touch with him although he has since retired.
I really want to spend time in NorCal. My wife and I want to see the sequoias and Big Sur…
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