if i were to believe the headhunter that called me this week, working for a big corporate aec firm managing healthcare construction projects. holy moly!
more seriously, if you want 'lucrative'.. it's development or construction PMing in the Mid-east (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, etc), working on a contract/mercenary basis, after you've had a few big AEC projects under your wing. But it does involve selling your soul, and those of your children and loved ones...
I am dismayed that everyone seems to think taking a high paying job necessarily equate "selling out". In fact, project management, if you work in the right firm gives more room for creativity---and one beyond the choice of tile or paint colour...
Actually, I think PMing is perfectly respectable. By selling out, I meant specifically somebody who takes on freelance construction PM roles in the mid-east particularly, dealing with virtually unpaid itinerate workers imported from Pakistan, living in steel boxes, building stuff that simply cannot be justified (socially, economically, politically, ecologically, whatever) by any other means other than the pleasure or ego of the local ruler.. some of those types of PM jobs pay really really well.. but you're contributing to a problem.
i second the program management, or programmer that J offered above. particularly if you develop a niche (universities, healthcare facilities, etc). i have seen a few who are good at what they do become experts in the field....and since you will be working with architects, if you have an architecture background, there is a chance they (we) will take you seriously....
Check out David Hovey FAIA of Optima in Chicago. He owns a design-build company comprised of an architectural practice coupled with a residential development firm. Excellent work and phenomenal sales record. He is an excellent model for the architect-entrepreneur who can control his design product and capitalize on it as well.
most lucrative way to use an M.Arch degree
Assuming you are willing to compromise job satisfaction a bit to make more money, what is the most lucrative way to use an M.Arch degree?
if i were to believe the headhunter that called me this week, working for a big corporate aec firm managing healthcare construction projects. holy moly!
Get a job that pays hourly.
sell it back with interest
work for accenture or deloitte
design your own brothel
Work in your own brothel.....
do what he does:
more seriously, if you want 'lucrative'.. it's development or construction PMing in the Mid-east (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, etc), working on a contract/mercenary basis, after you've had a few big AEC projects under your wing. But it does involve selling your soul, and those of your children and loved ones...
1 soul for sale
Cost: Management gig at major global architecture or construction management firm.
Please contact Apurimac if interested.
I am dismayed that everyone seems to think taking a high paying job necessarily equate "selling out". In fact, project management, if you work in the right firm gives more room for creativity---and one beyond the choice of tile or paint colour...
nonarchitect,
Actually, I think PMing is perfectly respectable. By selling out, I meant specifically somebody who takes on freelance construction PM roles in the mid-east particularly, dealing with virtually unpaid itinerate workers imported from Pakistan, living in steel boxes, building stuff that simply cannot be justified (socially, economically, politically, ecologically, whatever) by any other means other than the pleasure or ego of the local ruler.. some of those types of PM jobs pay really really well.. but you're contributing to a problem.
something like this looks good...
ah who cares about freelance terrorism, when you've got the riches and disco balls on skyscrapers......
i'm a sell-out. it actually feels pretty good.
i second the program management, or programmer that J offered above. particularly if you develop a niche (universities, healthcare facilities, etc). i have seen a few who are good at what they do become experts in the field....and since you will be working with architects, if you have an architecture background, there is a chance they (we) will take you seriously....
Check out David Hovey FAIA of Optima in Chicago. He owns a design-build company comprised of an architectural practice coupled with a residential development firm. Excellent work and phenomenal sales record. He is an excellent model for the architect-entrepreneur who can control his design product and capitalize on it as well.
crumple your degree into a ball, glue it to a piece of cardboard, and sell it as a frenk gehry sculpture.
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