Land surveyor

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Thursday I got an email invitation to a math test for land surveyors.

It's 72 miles from my house and I don't have a car

Bus, train, bus

Time money energy

Haven't decided if I am going

It might be a once in a lifetime deal

On the other hand I don't know if land surveyors need cars, car insurance, or whatever and I don't know the lifting requirements

Looked up public transportation directions

Have to leave my house before 7am to arrive at the test on time

72 miles away from my house

Local bus (only scheduled once an hour)

Train (scheduled about once an hour), 1 hour 38 minutes ride ($28 each way)

Local bus, scheduled once every 30 minutes, about half hour ride, to home Depot

1.7 mile walk to land surveyors

Then after that, walk to bus stop

I haven't gone anywhere outside my usual jurisdiction since June 2004

Make a day out of it

Expand comfort zone


Waste time money and energy

No nap

But it is just one day

Besides the land surveyors school is too far away from my house and if I went, then I would get back to the train station after the last bus and have to take a cab. $$$$

Also, do not know if they require cars and car insurance. Class a, b or c. Manual or automatic.

Besides eczema

Lifting requirements

Been rapidly getting much weaker and I was never strong to begin with

Not enough sleep



On the other hand, land surveying involves math and I used to like math. Land Surveyors is the closest to structural engineering that I might be able to come to

Living in the past

Expand comfort zone

Zipcar

Rent a car

Airplane ticket

Ain't got no stupidass "friends" to drive me.

(Rolls eyes)

A disaster waiting to keep happening

Take a nap and go to the library and surf the internet all day long

Or

Waste about sixty bucks and visit a different home Depot and go to the land surveyors to see how bad I am at subtraction. No nap, no library. Get to land surveyors two hours early. Nothing to do

"Much ado about nothing "

Slept 9:30 to 2:30am. Tried and failed to sleep until 3. Restless. Breakfast. Felt so exhausted, fell back asleep. Wanted to take the bus to nob Hill before work but too exhausted

Health rapidly getting much worse

If too exhausted tomorrow, won't go to land surveyors

9:40pm to 3:30am slept fine. Breakfast. Stretched. Walked to train station. Stupid me. Carelessly got on the wrong train. Ended up having to wait in the waiting room for two hours. Could not sleep because I was afraid someone would bother me or I would miss the train. Not really that exhausted. (Maybe tomorrow). As a result, I didn't have enough time to take the bus, as planned, so I could not go to home Depot. Had to take a taxi for $25. (I only earn $21 hour). But got there on time. (Good enough).

Land Surveyors exam, they gave us 2 hours for 30 multiple choice questions. The questions ranged from arithmetic to compound interest. 80 percent required to pass. I think I either barely failed or barely passed. It's been 20 years since I flunked out of structural engineering at UCSD and I have gotten much worse at math. The proctor said that applicants that passed the test, have to pass other things and if they do great, they start work in one or two years. Nobody asked questions about land surveyor school, nor did they say anything about land surveyor school. So I didn't ask either. She said that they would email the results in a week.

It was an awesome trip but it took way too much time money and energy. If I flunked the test, I am not going back

Today I got an email that I got one hundred percent on the land surveyors test yesterday

Thank Buddha

Next it says that I have to snail mail them a copy of my driver's license, high school diploma, social security card, and DMV report, by next Friday.

(Tried to look online for reviews of the school. Could not find anything. Paranoid it is a scam.)

On the other hand, applicants also have to pass a panel interview and be in good health. It didn't say anything about a car, car insurance, class A license, stick shift, but I think they need them too

I emailed my sister a copy of the land surveyors' emails and asked if it was a scam, because it did ask for my social security card and DMV report and drivers license

This far I have only given them my name, address and phone number. Didn't give them $$ or account number or anything like that

If my sister says it is legitimate, I will snail mail the documents when I get to the library on Monday but not today because I have to work

all the best with the new job

I googled, "mail social security card" and even though sometimes it is justified to do so, in this situation, I think the risk vastly outweighs the reward. Especially since the land surveyors would not even answer my questions about what the physical requirements were and stick shift, class a, b, or c , drive own car, and car insurance

They are too opaque

Besides they are so inflexible.

If the letter gets lost in the mail and someone gets my social security number, they could take my chump change, and do Buddha knows what else.