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I've had to absorb abusive language (directed directly at me and my incompetence) from the very man who hired me. Every filthy word you can think of! I've walked off and he calls to apologize. I return. He does it again. This went on until he had expended the retainer given to us to start the project. When his money ran out, I gave him everything I had as far as paperwork and information. I said, "You don't owe me anything and my time here is expired. If you want to abuse another surveyor, there are plenty of others in the phonebook."
I've been in manholes, fought with traffic shooting centerline, ran from dogs, also from people with guns. My partner found a perculation hole by stepping in it...all the way to the knee (and yes it was full of water). Had a dog wrap his chain around my transit and pull it down and drag it some distance ($300 repair bill).
Once, a woman came out and said, "You're not running this line." She proceeded to get a lawn chair and set down exactly on the line. We went around her by triangulation. LOL.
My brother and I were also given permission to kill as many groundhogs as we could on a farm.
There are a million stories of what happens in the field aside from actual surveying. I always find them interesting.
I do, however, measure the depth of stinky "sanitary" manholes using a level rod, and of course I get an elevation on the lid or rim of the structure so that the Civil Engineer will know how deep the pipes are compared to the top. I don't know how many manhole lids I have flipped open. (perhaps several hundred). I have monumented, however, many thousands of property corners.
These are all duties of a Land Surveyor.
Sewers have little to do with boundary work, but if a Land Surveyor is working for a company that employs Civil Engineers, you should expect to be getting data on sewers.
The great thing about working for a company that does both Land Surveying and Civil Engineering is that one profession feeds off of the other. Engineering jobs generate Surveying jobs and vice versa.