Im wondering if architecs are needed in a few years?
Architects future
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are needed in a few years
Will E Worm
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Why wouldn't an architect be needed?
I'd say yes and maybe you could be a city and town planner.
I'd say yes and maybe you could be a city and town planner.
Home ownership is down. Companies are dying. Why would we ever need a NEW architect? Older... experienced.. proven architects are already there. Save yourself the heartache. Save your money. Become something USEFUL to society. 70% of the workforce is in customer service. Cooks, waiters and retail jobs are always.. ALWAYS available. Unless you're not a people person. Then you might wanna go stare at blueprints and make a house. Good luck either way. We all need some luck, some real stimulus and a shoebox full of bullets.
Will E Worm
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I'd rather not do those jobs. :tongue:I will cook for myself.
I will not wait on someone.
I was in a retail job before. Not again.
I will not eat moldy green eggs and ham. :hatsoff:
You never go to restaurants?
Will E Worm
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You never go to restaurants?
I eat in sometimes. Not enough for it to matter.
I haven't been in a restaurant for about a month or two.
I will cook for myself.
I will not wait on someone.
I was in a retail job before. Not again.
I will not eat moldy green eggs and ham. :hatsoff:
::Clint Eastwood style 1000 yard stare::
You're one of those high maintenace customers.. a 0% tipper.. a whiny rotten complainer, EH?!?!
::hopes I'm wrong::
Will E Worm
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I eat in places like Frisch's and buffets in my area.
(Ryan's and Golden Corral) Nothing "fancy."
So, maybe a three dollar tip.
Rarely, at Cracker Barrel.
Must be extremely rarely. Because the place is called 'Cracker' barrel.
LOLOL! Yup, you're definitely not a dining-out consumer. More power to ya if you eat at home.. save money.. keep that cash to yourself. That's wise. But your server knows people very well.. and that is why many people.. get less than top notch service. Common sense but who knows who's reading this, eh? You burden someone at their job, you *should* pay them for the work done. Anyway.. specialized jobs in a declining market have no future at this point in time. What's the point of an IT job if people cant afford computers? Why be an architect if noone can afford anything but a cookie-cutter generic house? Etc, etc.
Architects are like musicians and painters: the only ones with any worthwhile talent are always blotted out by the countless shitheads that easily appeal to crowds. :2 cents:
apparently the us government's is developing a large infrastructure plan that'll generate many many jobs. if you decide to become an engineer you'll definitely have a job. i don't know much about prospects for architecture, but you should maybe look at growing career fields on *******.com or other job-related sites.
oh yea, restaurants, retail, and customer service are all pretty much **** jobs. not a lot of ppl stay long term in them, but besides that everyone's getting pretty stingy with their money. ppl aren't buying ****.
oh yea, restaurants, retail, and customer service are all pretty much **** jobs. not a lot of ppl stay long term in them, but besides that everyone's getting pretty stingy with their money. ppl aren't buying ****.
Architects don't do that, structural engineers do. Engineers make buildings stand up, architects make them pretty.
Don't bother trying to explain engineering ...
I mean, even most civil service jobs are in social work or technical, hardly pure engineering any more. We've utterly lost our engineering base as of the '80s.
At best, if you have an engineering degree, you get preference over other disciplines for non-engineering, technical and business positions. Industrial engineering over BA, electrical/computer engineering over MIS, etc..., as long as you have the technical and business experience to go with it.
That's been my case professionally since I left engineering after the 20th century. No one questions my engineering background, but at the same time, what I do now in technology does not require my engineering degree at all. It only helps marginally, at best, 5% of the time with insights, or possibly with risk management and more business when required outside of technical.
Hey Mongo, don't bother. I've given up trying to explain what engineering is around here. Besides, as an engineer, I'm "biased" in not believing the WTC was blown up by bombs and not believing the Moon Landings were faked. Sigh.
Really? I know a lot of engineers out of work or having trouble finding work. That includes government work.
I mean, even most civil service jobs are in social work or technical, hardly pure engineering any more. We've utterly lost our engineering base as of the '80s.
At best, if you have an engineering degree, you get preference over other disciplines for non-engineering, technical and business positions. Industrial engineering over BA, electrical/computer engineering over MIS, etc..., as long as you have the technical and business experience to go with it.
That's been my case professionally since I left engineering after the 20th century. No one questions my engineering background, but at the same time, what I do now in technology does not require my engineering degree at all. It only helps marginally, at best, 5% of the time with insights, or possibly with risk management and more business when required outside of technical.
Jeeze, I haven't been in a restaurant since a schoolmate's birthday party at Deep Pan Pizza, that was over ten years ago. I'm really not a people person. I'd like to live on a mountainside in Japan.......
Here's a request for any future work: make them pink with huge yellow flowers. Grey concrete and glass is so dull, brighten the place up a little. :wave2:
It shouldn't matter if there is a need for them. Do what you love doing. If architecture is a passion, then do it.
Also, it sounds as though you are debating taking architecture in University? If so, spend the thousands on something you will enjoy, because if your heart isn't into the work, you won't give 100% effort.
Fuck cooking, and fuck the service industry. Don't be a bitch for the rest of your life..like 70% of the workforce.
Also, it sounds as though you are debating taking architecture in University? If so, spend the thousands on something you will enjoy, because if your heart isn't into the work, you won't give 100% effort.
Fuck cooking, and fuck the service industry. Don't be a bitch for the rest of your life..like 70% of the workforce.
I agree. Even if it doesn't pan out, you at least got an education in what you love. You can always go to a tech or other college later to "get by," until you find a job back with your degree.
Even though I left engineering and went to tech, I haven't ruled out going back to engineering at some point. I flirt with doing it every now and then. I haven't gone to any tech school because I'm self-taught, like a lot of people. You don't need any college degree (much less engineering) to do tech.
At the most, my electrical engineering degree helps me about 5% of the time with tech -- and most of that is more business (microeconomics, risk assessment, feasibility, project planning, etc...) than electronics. Although I will get out the scope or logic analyzer at times, although it's more difficult at the signaling rates these days to do such.
Yep, study what you enjoy.
Most people assumed I studied business or MIS in college, possibly a few may have thought computer science, because I did so much tech as a ***. I studied electrical engineering because I was damn curious how the theory worked. I wanted to understand semiconductor materials, circuits, electromagnetic fields, etc...
Despite the "Generation D" (as in digital) non-sense that Sprint pushed, the world is still very much Analog at the lower levels. Enough that the speed of light is too damn slow for computing (long story).
Although if that's what people love, then they should. But yeah, a lot of people are in the service industries that **** it.
Especially sucking up to the type of customers and colleagues they loathe.
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I'd become the priciest architect with the poorest of taste, that way the government would contract my services.:1orglaugh
The ugliest, most expensive projects always seem to be govt. buildings.
Listen ! I hear that the gumment is building all kinds of concentration camps for those who refuse to turn in their cap pistols
. . . you might wanna turn in your bids . . . like. . . yesterday !
:rofl:
The ugliest, most expensive projects always seem to be govt. buildings.
Listen ! I hear that the gumment is building all kinds of concentration camps for those who refuse to turn in their cap pistols
. . . you might wanna turn in your bids . . . like. . . yesterday !:rofl:
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