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Tough times abound. We rely on superior product and reputation to survive. When the phone doesn't ring, we don't get paid. I've been playing music in a band to supplement my income.
By the grace of God, some work trickles in at just the right time to pay the bills. Work tapers off, but the bills come every month like clockwork.
I am also a self employed surveyor and it ain't easy sometimes.
I am working -- working on how to go about proper marketing and networking. I am also working at almost half the salary I was in 2008, but in a different local economy. Rather than doing engineering-support land surveying in an area with a high cost-of-living-index, I have relocated to a new home in an area with a low cost-of-living-index where the rich are not spending, rather it has been the "land rich, but dollar poor" landowners who have called me for what I call "the wrong reason". The wrong reason, to me, is that it is not mainly for personal gain, but for personal financial survival. Now, I must expect that during these hard times that there will be people and companies that are placed in a situation that they are required to have a survey of their lands. This may not be my favorite market (in fact, my best clients are those that actually want a survey of their lands for "the right reason"), but my personal financial survival depends on those whose personal financial survival needs include my professional services. For the moment, it's a sad way to make a living, but it remains the profession that I love.
-Scott D. Warner, RLS
When the going gets tough, the tough get to teaching, ah Karl?
This inspires me...