Tearing my hair out!

[Dinosaur]

Eeek! - I can't use a total station!!!! Thank God for surveyors.....

[BAJR]

Training days are available at reasonable rates from BAJR

Put it up... press the button and make sure it is turned on... That'll be 125 quid please.

[Bubo]

Thanks for that. I can dig, applying for the cscs (exam on 20th), currently on track with driving lessons and have used a total station (although its been a while! )

[kevin wooldridge]

Maybe it deserves another thread, but just to pick up on David and Dinosaur's last point......knowing how to use a total station is useful, but knowing what to do with the dataset generated is even more useful...So I would suggest that if you are going to learn how to use the machine you should also learn the potential applications...GIS in particular and some form of associated illustrator programme (I will stop short of suggesting AutoCAD cos I hate it, hate it, hate it......)!! If you are going to be working in London, the driving licence isn't a necessity!!

[BAJR]

Good points Keving ( and the driving licence... but if you want to work outside the M25

The idea of being a rounded individual who knows about the collection, extraction and manipulation of data is well made.

I will stop short of suggesting AutoCAD cos I hate it, hate it, hate it....

can't agree more! like driving a car with boxing gloves on

[Bubo]

Why yeeeees, i had thought about that..

I will have a look for some training. AutoCAD has a bad reputation then eh...!

[P Prentice]

.... I graduated in 2008, ..... had to take some tempng work ........... I am trying my hardest to get back into the field........ I have tried emailing a few of the professional services.........I don't have the required 6 months commercial site experience, I never got that chance...........I'm really not sure why no one will give me a break

without wishing to be rude but you say it all yourself

[BAJR]

THe other thing to do is write, letter - real writing... to a named person in a unit. ( see bajrs directory to find them)

Then phone and talk. ( short and sweet. )


Show you are keen but not stalker lol

As PP says. you kind of answer your question ... the thing is to get past that....

[Bubo]

Thanks guys, im totally overwhelemed with really good advice and encouragement. I hope anyone else in the same boat is reading too, sure there are a few of us.

PP, I do get that, but it wasn't a choice I made, I just had to at the time otherwise I wouldn't have paid my bills. As complicated as it makes it. I am sure plenty of thers have done the same. The complication is remembering all the advice you were given back then when you are restarting! But I think I have a direction now thanks to this thread.

I reckon I can get past that. Acknowledgment is good, but negatively regretting something is only going to make it harder. I wish more people would focus on what can be done and not what has been done.

[BAJR]

Acknowledgment is good, but negatively regretting something is only going to make it harder. I wish more people would focus on what can be done and not what has been done.

well said Bubo