Your reasons for what you do in your own life are yours to make. Over the years you've posted a novel's worth of reasons why you don't have experience. Your reasons may make perfect sense for your temperament, resources, family situation, etc.. What does not make sense is devoting such a huge part of your time to dispensing advice on things with which you have no experience. There must be things in which you do have experience, and sites where your advice on those things could be more useful.

5839, he still talks about the recession which he used numerous times as an excuse for his shortcomings. Recession was 10 years ago! Now the pandemic and another recession will all blend together for him to make even more excuses. His entire life is a recession.

Post up examples of projects you've done then Rick.

Rick you've furnished your own income information, indirectly, by repeatedly mentioning things like exactly which types of financial aid you qualified for in various phases of your academic struggles, the years in which you were able to qualify for income-based total deferment of your student loans, and even your concerns about being able to afford lunch at community college within recent years. You can't have it both ways: you frequently use your sub-poverty-level finances as one of your reasons for not accomplishing the things that YOU say you're going to accomplish - but at the same time you dispense copious "advice" on fees, contracts, billing, and on various project types, supposedly based on your own experience. If you were doing any of those things consistently and successfully enough to be qualified to advise on them then you wouldn't be worrying about where your next ramen noodles were coming from, and you wouldn't qualify for the aid and deferments. There's every indication that you're either defrauding the student loan system or lying about your professional experience, if not both.

Unless your clients are all on payment plans with terms that do not get you paid until years after the work is performed (which again would not paint you as a very competent business person), you have not had enough projects in the decade-plus that you've been dispensing advice on here to have accumulate any significant body of work that would give you the experience needed to be qualified to give that advice. It's not that I'm questioning all your myriad reasons for not having work- it's that your constant repeating of all those reasons pretty much proves that you have very little income and very little experience. 

Look, some people in any profession are going to be the ones at the very most unsuccessful end of the spectrum - that's only logical. But those aren't the people most others would want to be taking advice from.  

Again:  you can't have this both ways.  You can't pretend that in the years that you've spent here lamenting over how you were going to afford lunch at community college, you were at the same time making any money in your "businesses".

Rick wrote: "That would be exposing client information. If you can determine the project location, you can determine the client. I don't want some random individuals on an internet forum bugging past clients. Take it as a sort of client-professional privilege. There are some sleezy individuals with ill intent on this forum. This is not a statement against you or your personal character, Chad. "

Bullshit Rick.  We (architects) commonly post images of projects online.  Many will post progress drawings and parts of CD's online as well with the client info removed.  Look at the  Life of an Architect blog.  

"Many of my earlier projects were hand drafted because I didn't have a plotter so I did it by hand old school method. A few projects were done in CAD because of access to a plotter. I do currently have a plotter but it's not currently hooked up and it's a little dated so not sure it will work with the current computer."

After reading much of this thread, the OP has moved, changed their name, and now seeks work in the hospitality field.

How is it that you're the only person in the US that's never heard of Larry Flynt?

We've been down this road a few times before: examples: stamped measured engineer's drawings of a certain notorious theater building were published on the social media of another party involved in a project there. Rick with his sub-par googling abilities could not find those drawings, and so he accused everybody who did find them of wrong-doing for knowing what was in them. Then there was the time that a couple mods at the old ARE Forum made some remarks about the % of time he was spending there, and he threatened to report them to the FBI for hacking his internet provider. He didn't understand that the site tracked that information, so he concluded that there was a federal crime committed. It's the same thing with his business income-and lack thereof: he has inadvertently made it public knowledge, but he doesn't understand how, so he launches accusations against anybody who does know.

It has nothing to do with whether your measurements are correct or somebody else's are correct. My point is that the drawings were publicly posted but you accused those of us who found them of things like hacking, and bribing public officials. It has long been your default to accuse people of crimes anytime that someone knows anything that you don't know or that you don't realize is available information. 

 Here's an example that is not about you - maybe that will help you understand the point without getting all defensive: there was a thread a year or two ago in which a client came here to complain about and ask advice about their designer. There was enough info in the thread that one forum member was able to identify the firm, and from that information another forum member was able to find what seemed like more personal information about the designer. This caused yet another forum member to think that someone had hacked into that designer's account with a certain organization and was providing confidential information. As it turned out, the designer in question had posted the "confidential" information in a public location and no crime was involved at all. This is the same situation with you - except not just once but chronically. Every time somebody finds out something that you didn't want found, you default first to "that's impossible", and then to "you're a criminal."  Falsely accusing people of crimes is a crime itself.

You're doing it again: assuming that because certain entities are not permitted to provide certain information, if somebody finds this information then there was a crime committed. You're disregarding the fact that you've posted a lot of this directly online yourself, including your purported exact income for certain years (usually zero), and your own scans of transcripts and grades with your name on them. You're also disregarding that the privacy protections you're citing do not apply to every entity to which you have provided these types of information. For instance FERPA applies only to educational institutions that receive federal funding, and not to third party private companies who receive this information directly from you. You need to read privacy policies more carefully on everything you fill out - you're assuming blanket protections that do not exist and this isn't serving you well - you're an open book on the internet.