In May 2022, I was hired by the Office of Park Planning in the Central Office of the Florida Park Service. During my initial job interview with the planning manager and bureau chief, I let my prospective bosses know up front that I was formally requesting a heavy mapping workload if hired. I promised that I would go out of my way to learn ESRI’s ArcGIS program as quickly as possible. At that point, I had not touched a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) program since my unde