According to your experience, will there be more job openings in about 10 at the architecture industry? Or will the profession will get worse and worse? I am pretty optimistic about this issue to be honest although many may disagree. And apart from that, where will jobs will be in 10 years? People say Angola or Iraq are very promising markets.
A more important question would be to ask if Angola and/or Iraq will still be a country in 10 years. As for the profession, it'll be just fine. The weak ones get caught in endless unpaid internship hell while useful people do just fine.
Nobody really knows the answer to these questions - even so called "experts" who are paid to do this kind of analysis.
The real question you should be asking is not whether there will be job openings, but how many qualified candidates will submit credentials when job openings do appear. If the colleges keep pumping out more graduates than the profession can absorb, job opportunities will remain relatively hard to find and wages will remain low because so many candidates are competing for the same jobs.
Architecture is very much a "supply and demand" sort of profession - that goes for employment in the profession also. The main employment issue today (in the USA) is not that there aren't jobs to be had, it's more about too many graduate architects chasing the relatively few job openings that do exist.
The main employment issue today (in the USA) is not that there aren't jobs to be had, it's more about too many graduate architects chasing the relatively few job openings that do exist.
This is somewhat true. Architecture will never have a shortage of people interested in it because lets face it: its interesting! Computer science and information technology require no licensing, and can even be self-taught without a degree, yet are still highly paid professions with plenty of openings. Why: because people aren't as interested in it as architecture.
The approach every profession is taking now is to restrict the supply of professionals able to enter. Lawyers weren't able to siphon things off and now its difficult to find a job there. Doctors and their lobbying groups have been very successful at preventing equal opportunity and access to the profession, and are in high demand as a result.
Many would like to race to the bottom to protect themselves, but forget that legalizing barriers to entry into markets effectively legislates inequality. It is because they don't want to be equal, and don't want to have to compete with everyone for pay, and prefer a world in which they think they can become "better than average" by increasing barriers to entry that we still have so much poverty in the US today. If we ever want the poor to escape poverty, we must open up the markets to let them compete with us for the same jobs. Unfortunately, we are too afraid and insecure to do that.
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Jobs in 10 years
According to your experience, will there be more job openings in about 10 at the architecture industry? Or will the profession will get worse and worse? I am pretty optimistic about this issue to be honest although many may disagree. And apart from that, where will jobs will be in 10 years? People say Angola or Iraq are very promising markets.
A more important question would be to ask if Angola and/or Iraq will still be a country in 10 years. As for the profession, it'll be just fine. The weak ones get caught in endless unpaid internship hell while useful people do just fine.
Anytime you are counting on the markets in Angola and Iraq to buoy your industry, you know you are in trouble.
^ What he said!
Nobody really knows the answer to these questions - even so called "experts" who are paid to do this kind of analysis.
The real question you should be asking is not whether there will be job openings, but how many qualified candidates will submit credentials when job openings do appear. If the colleges keep pumping out more graduates than the profession can absorb, job opportunities will remain relatively hard to find and wages will remain low because so many candidates are competing for the same jobs.
Architecture is very much a "supply and demand" sort of profession - that goes for employment in the profession also. The main employment issue today (in the USA) is not that there aren't jobs to be had, it's more about too many graduate architects chasing the relatively few job openings that do exist.
The main employment issue today (in the USA) is not that there aren't jobs to be had, it's more about too many graduate architects chasing the relatively few job openings that do exist.
This is somewhat true. Architecture will never have a shortage of people interested in it because lets face it: its interesting! Computer science and information technology require no licensing, and can even be self-taught without a degree, yet are still highly paid professions with plenty of openings. Why: because people aren't as interested in it as architecture.
The approach every profession is taking now is to restrict the supply of professionals able to enter. Lawyers weren't able to siphon things off and now its difficult to find a job there. Doctors and their lobbying groups have been very successful at preventing equal opportunity and access to the profession, and are in high demand as a result.
Many would like to race to the bottom to protect themselves, but forget that legalizing barriers to entry into markets effectively legislates inequality. It is because they don't want to be equal, and don't want to have to compete with everyone for pay, and prefer a world in which they think they can become "better than average" by increasing barriers to entry that we still have so much poverty in the US today. If we ever want the poor to escape poverty, we must open up the markets to let them compete with us for the same jobs. Unfortunately, we are too afraid and insecure to do that.
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