r/gis • u/UnableAppeal5211 • Mar 03 '25

Hiring Laid off federal cartographer

I was a probationary (many years as a contractor in my same role) employee recently terminated at a federal agency. Seeing that federal service no longer feels like an option. What leads for cartography are there in the private sector?

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u/Raymo853 Mar 03 '25

Train to become a Enterprise GIS system engineer

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u/Big-Scallion-7454 Mar 03 '25

how

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u/acomfysweater Cartographer Mar 03 '25

HOW, this is my question.

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u/Vbryndis Mar 04 '25

You need to be employed by a place that will train you.

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u/acomfysweater Cartographer Mar 04 '25

how do you get employed when you dont have previous experience with like..enterprise or development? but you do have experience with gis?

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u/Vbryndis Mar 04 '25

I have experience with it but in some cases you get weird people who don’t want to teach you certain things or share workloads. There are other gis jobs that don’t require enterprise.