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Think about what you always considered to be job security, and flip it inside out.

When you join a Support Group on LSU, you are immediately on your way to customizing your own unique support network based on your general (or specific) location, a topic which you are passionate about or a type of equipment which you are either learning or have already mastered.  Your profile and network becomes more diversified and your influence grows according to your particular level of participation.

 Everyone on LSU will have a unique combination of groups in which they belong and support.  "Support" in this sense involves the active willingness to add your opinion or perspective to a particular discussion related to a particular topic.  No matter what your perspective may be, the act of adding it to any discussion on LSU increases the likelihood of more participation from your fellow surveyors.  When new activity occurs within your groups, you receive notification via email and thus LSU gives you the "heads up" for another opportunity to voice your take on the subject.  The same occurs when you start a new discussion within a group- your fellow members within that group get notification of a new opportunity to go deeper with their opinions on said topic.  

This is how we change this industry and the eliminate privatization of vital information which can harm a surveyor or even threaten ones job security.  Basically, sharing what you know best in land surveying, if done fairly regularly or often, can actually become a form of job security on Land Surveyors United.  This network gives surveyors the ability to become not only an authority on a subject, but perhaps even create a bit of a reputation in years to come due to consistent contribution to a specialized arena within the industry.  Very few companies will ever fire an industry expert.  If you put enough of your spare time into this network, you will become that expert.