So I am reading Archinect like a daily newspaper, and I can't help but see how many people say they are struggling with finances in Arch. I understand it's all about the passion and I am all for it, it's my passion as well, but why all this school and money, and not a happy career??? Have some of ya'll settled for something else, besides an architect??? Anyone happier in another country?????
i'm not sure that architects actually struggle more than other professionals. you're just seeing a concentrated amount of complaints on this site, specifically in certain threads.
money (and the pursuit of it) will never keep me from being an architect.
During a trip to my parent's house I found the copy of The Fountainhead my good friend and classmate gave me in school. The dedication he wrote on the front page is: "On your 20th birthday, remember this: it's great to be a Fountainhead, but Peter Keating sure knew how to party!"
Of course Peter Keating was also an architect, so I guess he had it both ways.
when i'm feeling low in the office, i often daydream about how great mike brady had it: the huge suburban house, the beautiful wife, the six kids, the housekeeper, the fabulous vacations (think hawaii, disneyland). it's the little things that keep you going in this dog-eat-dog profession.
yes.....tis true, there are the low points. i guess all those moments are washed away when you meet someone that is surprised to hear you are an architect, and truly appreciates what you do (as well as respects you/looks up to you). It's not about self promotion or even ego boosts, but about appreciation from others and recognition (at least for me it is).
I got over the Brady Bunch thing eventually. It wasn't too long until I started daydreaming about being Paul Newman as an architect reading electrical diagrams on the 79th floor of the building I designed before comming home to my hot wife played by Fay Dunnaway in the Towering Inferno.
Oddly I only sided with Stanley Kracklite in "Belly of an Architect" - especially using his face & thorax to redesign the mercedes parked below the Roman streets
I'm guessing if they re-release that movie on blue ray, we would start seeing many more graduate thesis projects employing the same design. 70s and 80s clothing styles have been back in so why not 70s and 80s interiors?
Okay, enigmatic mind, you will only struggle if you set yourself up for a stuggle. Otherwise, you'll be just fine. Anyone can struggle making any amount of money. It just depends on how responsible you are about finances.
one of my favorite parts of catcher in the rye is when holden has to give a speech for this public speaking class and everytime he goes off-topic, someone in the class yells, "digression!!!" it happens over and over, but holden can't understand what they are talking about, because everything he is saying makes perfectly logical sense to him.
Architects Struggling???
So I am reading Archinect like a daily newspaper, and I can't help but see how many people say they are struggling with finances in Arch. I understand it's all about the passion and I am all for it, it's my passion as well, but why all this school and money, and not a happy career??? Have some of ya'll settled for something else, besides an architect??? Anyone happier in another country?????
i'm not sure that architects actually struggle more than other professionals. you're just seeing a concentrated amount of complaints on this site, specifically in certain threads.
money (and the pursuit of it) will never keep me from being an architect.
During a trip to my parent's house I found the copy of The Fountainhead my good friend and classmate gave me in school. The dedication he wrote on the front page is: "On your 20th birthday, remember this: it's great to be a Fountainhead, but Peter Keating sure knew how to party!"
Of course Peter Keating was also an architect, so I guess he had it both ways.
sure i have been struggling, but only because i have bean strugling, hustling, thuggin it for-ever.
when i'm feeling low in the office, i often daydream about how great mike brady had it: the huge suburban house, the beautiful wife, the six kids, the housekeeper, the fabulous vacations (think hawaii, disneyland). it's the little things that keep you going in this dog-eat-dog profession.
yes.....tis true, there are the low points. i guess all those moments are washed away when you meet someone that is surprised to hear you are an architect, and truly appreciates what you do (as well as respects you/looks up to you). It's not about self promotion or even ego boosts, but about appreciation from others and recognition (at least for me it is).
I got over the Brady Bunch thing eventually. It wasn't too long until I started daydreaming about being Paul Newman as an architect reading electrical diagrams on the 79th floor of the building I designed before comming home to my hot wife played by Fay Dunnaway in the Towering Inferno.
Oddly I only sided with Stanley Kracklite in "Belly of an Architect" - especially using his face & thorax to redesign the mercedes parked below the Roman streets
that's a good one, archmed. if only i worked in an office like that with orange shag carpetting.
I'm guessing if they re-release that movie on blue ray, we would start seeing many more graduate thesis projects employing the same design. 70s and 80s clothing styles have been back in so why not 70s and 80s interiors?
we so got off topic. lol
I mean ya'll got off topic.
Texas accent, sorry.
Okay, enigmatic mind, you will only struggle if you set yourself up for a stuggle. Otherwise, you'll be just fine. Anyone can struggle making any amount of money. It just depends on how responsible you are about finances.
are we off topic?
one of my favorite parts of catcher in the rye is when holden has to give a speech for this public speaking class and everytime he goes off-topic, someone in the class yells, "digression!!!" it happens over and over, but holden can't understand what they are talking about, because everything he is saying makes perfectly logical sense to him.
DIGRESSION!!!
okay, back to struggling architects...
I'm only struggling to get enough sleep. I don't worry about the money too much.
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