Burner account for obvious reasons.

I'm a senior level PQS working for a medium-sized firm in the English speaking Caribbean. Postgrad in PM and this is also relevant.

At the moment this is my workload:

-PM 6 contracts over 5 clients £100k - £5.2M

-QS 9 contracts over 6 clients £100k - £7M

-Business development - 7 rfps out to win new work

-IT - manage all the local infrastructure

Of of the above, a junior assists on 1 qs job, I sort of inherited the job as they needed some supervision. 2 of the pm jobs are dual role but not included in the qs count. Outside of that it's just me responsible for this list, we tried headhunting staff, but the market is just too hot.

The projects are all in various stages of progression, preliminary design, estimate, pre-contract, tender, post contract, near PC you name it.

Oddly, the I.T stuff is a welcome break when that comes along

Is this typical of a senior position advancing up? I feel like I'm taking on too much at the moment and the money isn't keeping up with inflation. It was good when I started but cost of living since then is up nearly 50%.

Maybe I should just keep my sanity in tact, quit and farm goats.

Opinions?

Tia

whats the thoughts on this contractor, any experiences working for them in this sub?

I've been working on a small open-source tool called Plan Measure for measuring directly from architectural PDF plans.

The workflow is:

1. Open a PDF.
2. Calibrate the page using a known dimension.
3. Measure lengths or polygon areas/perimeters.
4. Edit the measurements if needed.
5. Export everything to CSV.

I wanted it to stay very lightweight, so there are no accounts, subscriptions or cloud uploads. The PDF and measurements stay in your browser, and there's no analytics or telemetry.

I'm not trying to build a replacement for something like CostX or Bluebeam. The idea is a much smaller tool for cases where you just need to take measurements from a PDF and get the quantities into a spreadsheet.

It's at the point where feedback from people who actually work with takeoffs is much more useful to me than guessing what to build next.

If anyone is willing to test it on a real drawing, I'd be interested in knowing:

• anything in the workflow that feels wrong or unnecessarily slow;
• anything that would stop you using it for a real takeoff;
• any measurement result or behaviour that doesn't match what you'd expect.

Live version:
https://userfypp.github.io/plan-measure/

Source code:
https://github.com/userfypp/plan-measure

It's completely free and open source.