About Jasen Hunt

The story so far

1. A kid with AutoCAD

   I got into CAD young. In high school an engineering teacher pushed my drafting further, I picked up certifications early, and the plan was to become a mechanical engineer. I enrolled in college for engineering.

2. The accident

   In my senior year I was in a boating accident. I had multiple concussions and a traumatic brain injury. I could do about four hours of work before I had to sleep, so no regular job would have me, even part time. I couldn't cover rent or food and ate from my school's food bank for a while. I ended up leaving college.

3. Freelancing to eat

   Drafting was the one skill I could still sell. I took whatever came in under the name Bulldog Drafting: jobs for a rifle company and a battery company, residential sheds, the odd land survey. It kept me fed, but every job ended and I was back to looking for the next one.

4. A surveyor in Colorado

   Then I found a surveyor in Colorado who needed drafting. He was a field guy who had never really used CAD, but he knew exactly what the finished survey had to look like. We spent hours on the phone, day after day, and I never once met him. My first survey took me a month.

   He paid me fairly and taught me the whole field. I owe him a lot.

5. Back on my feet

   A second licensed surveyor hired me, and the work outgrew me. I tried hiring friends first, which went badly. Then I hired engineering students from the local colleges and taught them what I'd been taught. Within a year about seven of them were drafting with me.

   Teaching them turned out to be the part I enjoyed most. It's what I do now, through Land Survey Drafts.

This is the story as I've told it in my video about the accident, my video about working remotely, my video about my first drafting company and an interview with Whop.