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Tickets that raise your rate

• Technologist certification

  Provincial bodies such as the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists grant a certified technologist title after a diploma plus supervised experience.

• Machine control and grade systems

  Bulldozers and excavators now steer off satellite positions. Someone has to set up and check those models.

• Drone mapping

  A pilot certificate plus survey skills makes you the person a firm sends on aerial jobs.

• Mine surveying

  Underground and open pit work. Rotating shifts, the best pay in this field.

• Hydrographic surveying

  Measuring lake and sea beds from a boat.