About Laing Survey

Laing Survey is the brain child of a man named Laing. Mark. That's me.
I started surveying in 1975 as a teenager. Looking for work, I read an ad in the paper that said "Survey help wanted. No experience needed. Must not be afraid of snakes." A little bit further down the column was another ad that just said "Survey help wanted. No experience Needed." I applied for that one. Got the job. Got bit by a snake the first day. Just kidding. It was a bunch of years before I got bit. I lived.
Back then surveyors needed a three man crew. I started as the guy that held the rod. Worked my way up to looking through the telescope. Went to school for surveying. Got a job as the guy that runs the field crew. Then worked as a survey technician in the office. Setting up jobs and checking field notes and such.
I became licensed in 1992, the year Hurricane Andrew hit. (Storms don't take out survey rods in the ground, or survey nails in the road, but bulldozers cleaning the debris into the front yard and then down the street rip them right out.)
Worked for a few companies here in Palm Beach County, and went out on my own in October 2015
I now do all the various aspects of the various survey projects that come up, and enjoy being more closely involved with the actual clients, both in the office aspect and in the field work, than I ever could as a simple technician.
By the way, the equipment I have used in my life has been revolutionized, and more than once. I went from measuring a quarter mile distance with a two hundred foot steel tape, to using a GPS receiver accurate to well within an inch. I call that impressive.
I could go on . . . and on.