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Candidates I see, the classes are in the building closest to the common. And
your ex-girlfriend was taking the GIS classes in the same building
when you first got started. Not the weirdest way I’ve heard of
falling into Surveying, but close. Tell me, McDude, what’s been
By: Carl R. C.de Baca, PLS your favorite class so far?

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Really? You don’t have a favorite class, you just like saying
Geomatics? That’s a new one. I’m just the opposite. I hate
saying Geomatics. It sounds like a made-up word, like
Phoronometrics. What the hell is that, anyway? Ah, but I digress.
Listen, McDude, we are a very busy firm with a lot of projects and
lot of different kinds of projects and if we brought you on, you’d
be exposed to a lot of things. Maybe this would help you decide
what kind of Surveying you want to do when you graduate.
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No, sorry, I meant Geomatics. Ha ha, old habits are hard to break.
Let’s cut to the chase – if we bring you on, we would want you
here five days a week through the summer and as long as you
can go until you have to leave for school. There is some flexibility
in what hours you work and our pay would be very competitive…

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Good afternoon Mr. Airedale, may I call you Jake?
I’m sorry Jake, er McDude, we can’t really offer you an at-home
Grhelosgf. position. As an intern you need to work closely with other team
members and your supervisor and that just isn’t possible from
Well okay, you prefer ‘McDude’. So, McDude, I guess we should home.
get started. I’ve got a copy of your resume here and I see that
you’ve been steadily working your way through the Surveying Zzzzz xx Zzzz.
classes at Turftoe State College. It looks like you are roughly
three-quarters of the way through the program, or pretty much Yes, it is somewhat ironic that you could take all your classes on-
wrapping up your junior year, is that about right? line but you still have to show up in person for your job. Still, you
said yourself that you attended classes in-person rather than go
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Ah, so you are not actually registered in the Bachelors’ program, Ftxvvwl?
you are just taking the classes as part of, how did you put it,
“your journey of self-discovery”? Well Jake, er, McDude, have you Well no, we don’t have a ‘common’. But there’s a park about two
discovered anything yet? Ha ha! blocks from here. It makes for a nice walk at lunch time.
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Oh no, I was just trying to be humorous. I’m sorry if that No, we don’t provide lunch. You can certainly bring your own and
offended you. Of course, we here at Galactic Surveys take self- eat at your desk or walk down the street to the Taco shop.
exploration seriously. It just seems to me that you would want
to get registered in the program as you get closer to completing Zwxlpb zzz?
the course load so that you could come away with a diploma
after all your hard work. And I imagine it would be easier to Because surveying is a hands-on profession, and while remote-
come by some scholarship money from the state society of work opportunities are available for more accomplished
professional surveyors if you were registered. technicians and surveyors, it just isn’t possible at an entry-level
position like what we are offering you.
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No, I’m not trying to tie you down, McDude. I understand you
are keeping your options open as you go forth in this big wide Well then, I won’t take up any more of your time. Good luck
world, but I must say, Surveying is a promising, challenging, McDude. If it doesn’t work out at ScarBucks, give us a call.
exciting field of endeavor and we are always looking for young,
self-motivated individuals like yourself. Tell me, what made you
interested in the Survey program in the first place?

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