The worst jobs in history - land surveyor / pole man

A famous TV channel that deals mostly with history, thought that being a surveyor or a pole man is one of the worst jobs in history.

This is a brief description, how it was in the old days.

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Entertainment

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• surveying
• survey
• surveyor
• vermesser
• vermessung
• gps
• worst
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• in
• history
• chain
• geodäsie
• geodesy

[Macs83ak]

I've been a Surveyor in Alaska for 8 years now and I love it! Im not stuck behind a desk, I get to travel all over, and oh yea the money is fucking amazing!!

[generalfuckpants]

What the fuck? Worst job in the world? My grandfather started out as a rod man shortly after WWII and retired as the head of a survey crew and worked his way up in the various survey teams in the state of Florida. Not to mention my father did many, many jobs with him back when he was a lot younger coming back from Vietnam. In fact I still have my grandfather's survey tools and field note books from his days as a land surveyor. Worst job my ass, that takes a LOT of skill and concentration.

[telus2004]

I'm a surveyor and I have to say I don't think anyone has pulled a chain in my lifetime (I'm 26.) EDMs, GPS, Digital Levels, and LiDAR have made all of this so freakin' obsolete. I can say though, I do love sending my rod man on a nice long walk because our benchmark looked a little off, or our Tie in was out.

[LordDavidVader]

PS. unless you are working for a government agency that doesn't care about making money or wasting ours then there is not such thing as a rod man or a pole man.

[LordDavidVader]

God! nice job commentators for proving the fact the surveyors are pretty much the lamest artards in the word with no sense of humour. I say this as someone who has worked in the land surveying business for 25 years. (and yea I'm probably a lame artard too, but that's what surveying does to you) Did you guys all miss the part where it said "how it was in the old days"

[coa9987]

@repthea420 oh yeah....

[emildbbcg]

I am a Geodetic Engineer, working as a Land Surveyor in my hometown and in middle east. I will start for a new job in another company and I will work as a Hydrographic Surveyor... Challenging Job for the journey of my profession... :)

[emildbbcg]

GOD!!! This is an OLD SCHOOL executing a survey. We have lots of high technology equipment for survey like total station and GPS. Why are you still using this. Your chainman/pole man/rod man, get angry with you if you still using this kind of method. But this is good. I am laughing while watching this. It reminds me when I was still a young boy and studying Surveying. Nice Job but quit classic.... hehehe

[repthea420]

Whatever man, I'm a land surveyor and it is a easy job most of the time, the hardest part is chopping brush in overgrown areas.

[thanhtran5]

I really don't think it's so bad. I'm 29 years old and I would enjoy a job like that. All that walking regardless of weather conditions in the outdoors isn't so bad.

[sugarbrownrabbit]

@ttomdorrej i mean physical geography

[ttomdorrej]

@sugarbrownrabbit

I dont really sure if a degree in geography would be satisfaction.

Hmmmm?