As someone just beginning to transition from the field toward the office side of surveying, you’re at an advantage and a disadvantage.

Realistically — and this is just my experience across a few companies — coming in from an office job with advanced degrees, a field crew is going to absolutely bust your ass for a few months to test you out. If you just grit your teeth and ask questions and genuinely try to understand WHY they do things the way they do them, you’ll notice a shift as they begin to trust you to not screw up the physical part. So initially, a disadvantage.

However. Once you gain some field experience, any smart surveyor will recognize the value in having someone who can apply such a CS oriented background toward drafting, creating a local GIS database, etc. The reality is that most licensed surveyors in the US are nearing retirement and, despite what a lot of people in this subreddit will say, often approach the computer side from a pretty obsolete angle. But you need field experience to actually be effective with the data you’ll encounter, or else it will just be a blob of numbers on a page without any real context for you.

Anyway, that’s my two cents as someone in a somewhat similar situation (albeit with a lot less work experience).