#5 That self-serving hypocrite Ayn Rand deeply and wrongly influenced the public perception of what an architect does, and we are still trying to overcome that damage.
# 12 - how far down the totem pole architects are for the said (hot) babes described in "pro #2" who are actually savvy and know how economically challenged, eccentric, effete, and egotistical architects can be and will therefore pass on them
17. Knowing computers better than the pencil pushers. Nobody ever asks if you want to help design the facade (even though you can draw & design with the best of them ) because you're too busy helping a senior associate figure out how to open their f&*$!ing email.
30. Having to endure interior decorators' constant explanations that their expertise is on-par (and often better) than yours because that's what they were told during their 3 semesters in CC.
Having to explain that you're NOT an architect because you haven't completed IDP, passed your exams, and gotten your license, when at a party.
Ha. But you know the state boards would have stacks of complaints up to their eyeballs if they had to enforce that, and people do it anyways to economize on words.
33. Designing personal residences where the non-working spouse, generally the wife, thinks they know more about architecture more than you do, conveniently overlooking the intricacies of how a building goes together,.
38. Having to go around with an index finger poking at your chin, feigning discernment, when, to most people, it would imply "shit on a stick."
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25. Not being able to watch a movie without thinking about the architecture in the movie.
I can handle the architecture in movies alright because even hollywood puts some effort into it. But it's the architecture and interiors in porn that always ruined it for me.
Having to endure interior decorators' constant explanations that their expertise is on-par (and often better) than yours because that's what they were told during their 3 semesters in CC
39. Standing in the unemployment line and harboring the persistent suspicion that they might just conceivably be right.
40. The powerful abstract thinking that you spent so many hours developing in school is not considered valuable by anyone else in the construction and real estate who think you went to (or should have gone to) tech school to learn to serve them with CAD drawings.
Cons of Being An Architect
Rules:
Each entry must be pre-numbered. Example: Con #1, 2, 3, etc...
To make this as diverse of a thread as possible, I ask that everyone please post only one numbered Con in this thread.
I'll start (you can follow my numbering example):
Con #1: Architects don't get paid as much as they should be.
Are you kidding? There aren't any cons to being an architect. We are arbiters of taste, style and fashion.
con #2. you're not allowed to type with capital letters or print with lowercase letters. also, you're not aloud to wear any color.
maybe that counts as 2?
Let's see which one of these threads will still be here in the morning. It will determine whether or not the pro's outweigh the con's.
#4 Soul-crushing student debt
#5 That self-serving hypocrite Ayn Rand deeply and wrongly influenced the public perception of what an architect does, and we are still trying to overcome that damage.
#6 Clients who don't pay.
#7 You can't afford to sue clients who don't pay.
#8 Decorators.
#9 Other architects.
#10 Building inspectors who either don't have a clue or want a payoff.
#11 Clients who make changes solely to demonstrate power, without any idea of the effects or consequences.
# 12 - how far down the totem pole architects are for the said (hot) babes described in "pro #2" who are actually savvy and know how economically challenged, eccentric, effete, and egotistical architects can be and will therefore pass on them
# 13 - When someone tells you to go f#$k! yourself it's an architect that your f&*king.
I think I meant to put that in pros. I think.
#14 Entry to the profession from a low SES is near impossible.
#666 People asking you to follow their example.
#15 You feel the need to give your change to that drunk homeless guy every once in while...why?
^ Because he's probably an architect.
Thank you Miles. First archinect laugh of the day.
16. Computers. there is far too much of that techno-jumbo in the profession these days.
17. Knowing computers better than the pencil pushers. Nobody ever asks if you want to help design the facade (even though you can draw & design with the best of them ) because you're too busy helping a senior associate figure out how to open their f&*$!ing email.
#18. Going to school for a minimum of 5 years, and still not being taken as a professional.
#19 No one REALLY knows what you do.
#20 Having to explain that you're NOT an architect because you haven't completed IDP, passed your exams, and gotten your license, when at a party.
#21: #20
#22: Being called Ted Mosby.
#23 Making it all the way thru school just to make little to no money apon graduation.
#24 having grey hair at 32.
25. Not being able to watch a movie without thinking about the architecture in the movie.
26. if you win the lottery, you can practice architecture till it's all gone
27. Using the word fabric, and automatically having people think you are talking about cloth.
29. NCARB
30. Having to endure interior decorators' constant explanations that their expertise is on-par (and often better) than yours because that's what they were told during their 3 semesters in CC.
31. The high pissiness quotient.
*throwing the scarf over my shoulder and leaving the office with an indignant huff*
#31 Being able to talk like this.
Having to explain that you're NOT an architect because you haven't completed IDP, passed your exams, and gotten your license, when at a party.
Ha. But you know the state boards would have stacks of complaints up to their eyeballs if they had to enforce that, and people do it anyways to economize on words.
33. Designing personal residences where the non-working spouse, generally the wife, thinks they know more about architecture more than you do, conveniently overlooking the intricacies of how a building goes together,.
34.
Having had professors that talk like this.
35.
Having to reformat specs given to you by contractors to meet your office's standards (what I am doing right now. :( )
36. Architecture does not come with a surgeon's general warning like a pack cigarettes.
#37 You can be fabulously successful without a grain of design talent.
38. Having to go around with an index finger poking at your chin, feigning discernment, when, to most people, it would imply "shit on a stick."
25. Not being able to watch a movie without thinking about the architecture in the movie.
I can handle the architecture in movies alright because even hollywood puts some effort into it. But it's the architecture and interiors in porn that always ruined it for me.
Having to endure interior decorators' constant explanations that their expertise is on-par (and often better) than yours because that's what they were told during their 3 semesters in CC
39. Standing in the unemployment line and harboring the persistent suspicion that they might just conceivably be right.
Well, I won't call it a major con but it is a part of Architects work to come up with new ideas and design, whenever they get the new project.
40. The powerful abstract thinking that you spent so many hours developing in school is not considered valuable by anyone else in the construction and real estate who think you went to (or should have gone to) tech school to learn to serve them with CAD drawings.
^ i'll definitely 3rd that one.
^ Disagree. Powerful abstract thinking is absolutely required to secure payment for services or just make a living as an architect.
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