I want to be an architect for awhile
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- xcarlx0
no...I am in LA because of Sci Arch though. (long story)
- raf0
Some 10-15% of architects I met in Ireland during the last four years are still employed, all with salary cuts.
- ntslide0
Go build something! I try to make something, even handmade models of somethings, every couple weeks. Keeps me happy for sure. I've made furniture on the side for years. Now I just wait for my friends to ask for a piece and I make it on my own time!
Having a shop is huge though.
I'd just be completely lost without the production side. I think it's the most fulfilling.
- Calero0
you dont want to be an architect... trust me...
- i trust younearestexit
- ...being an architect means saying hello to $18 dollars an hour.. else you could make $125 per hour as an IA.robotron3k
- yes, i choose IAnearestexit
- formed0
I've got two degrees in architecture (Bach and Masters, UF and UCLA) but left the traditional career path almost immediately. Just don't have the patience to work long hours and paid little.
So I started a graphic/3D/web company and never looked back.However, there is nothing I enjoy more than designing architecture. I am now working from as developer/owner on the side. It is empowering and gratifying, and trying, to be sure.
As for hand building, I was fairly skilled at models (if I do say so myself), but furniture was just something I could never get the quality I wanted (and I tried).
But I do have friends that made some amazing things in school (helps to have access to a full shop).
- Orbit0
Save yourself the bother. Adobe are already working on a domestic architecture package that will enable anyone to design and engineer their own home to build standards, outputting the plans, engineering diagrams and calculating quantity surveyance figures.
Its called Adobe Adobeshop.
^ Such a long lead up to such an abysmal gag. I am ashamed of myself.
* Clicks send.