I am a passionate surveyor who has been fortunate to gain experience in many of the disciplines of surveying since commencement in the profession with BHP (Australia wide) in 1973. Originally intending to go into Agriculture following high school, I was captivated one summer afternoon in the south-west of NSW by several teams of surveyors working on irrigation channel construction – it became surveying for me from that point on!I was fortunate to attend UNSW in the halcyon years of the 70’s where lectures included a number of surveyors who had been employed on the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme – Jack Freislich and Henry Werner spring to mind (a terrific surveying education resulted). Commencing a surveying career in the 70’s has allowed me to experience the massive technology introductions to the industry that really commenced at the time – I have used a T1A and steel band for a number of years; carried out calculations on a Curta; saw the introduction of the HP45 that ‘revolutionised’ calculations; used the early EDM machines; worked on the early HP programmed computers; and now today the use of robotic total stations, GNSS, UAV’s and laser scanners. Whilst it is surveying that I love, it is also business and management that provokes a very keen part of me. I believe that surveyors in Australia often ‘sell themselves short’ of the education that they have obtained and the ‘risk’ that they take in their daily operations. Many surveyors will identify that they are technical professionals and that business and management is better left to someone else – however combining the technical, business and management disciplines does make the life of surveying a very rewarding career.