Analyzing deeds

I don't know how other surveyors calculate their boundary, they are probably is better with time and experiences. I see some of them just take a pencil and paper and sketch, turn out quiet pretty, and say, hold this, rotate that, and KA-BUM!!! boundary done!! If you give me a pencil and paper, I doubt it is readable, not much less a to-scale sketch.

For me, I still have to read and sketch every single my deeds to get the picture in my mind. It does take time, but I'm quiet sufficient with CADD work so it doesn't take too much time. Plus, when I enter the deed in Carlson, it easier to check the closure, create points at the same time, so when I calculate, points are already there, I just have to decide what to hold and rotate or calculate. I also enter the deed information (includes acreage, grantor, grantee, recording instrument, date, etc) in the sketch work, so the drafter just have to copy that information and take out what they don't need on the drawing. As oppose to I have to write the info down on paper, they have to type the info into CADD drawing, then I have to read and check, that's just double work for me.

My boss and my mentor, P., just give me a job and said you don't have to do deed sketches, we already know what out there in the field. Uh ... boss, the site is 22 ac, the surveyor of the current deed that doesn't hold anything he/she found and set new corners, the survey after that follows that survey, hold a short line, and other corners that didn't call for and set some more of his/her own. The tract is also combined of several other tracts and doesn't name the deeds before them. So yeah, I need to research deeds from several conveyances before, and sketch them to see what to hold and what to throw out.

Therefore, this is one of the time I don't follow the instruction, and just order the deeds I need, and draw them all :P . Good thing P. turn a blind eye to that and just leave me to do what I want with my boundary.