John Morefield is one of thousands of unemployed designers who are reinventing themselves. Last year, he put up a booth at a farmers' market in Seattle, advertising his skills for a nickel, and ended up earning more than $50,000 in commissions. NYT | Previously
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John Morefield is one of thousands of unemployed designers who are reinventing themselves. Last year, he put up a booth at a farmers' market in Seattle, advertising his skills for a nickel, and ended up earning more than $50,000 in commissions. NYT | Previously
Related: Archinect's Working Out of the Box feature series.
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Considering how much publicity John Morefield has received he should quit architecture and go into marketing.
This is just a shitty state of affairs for us all. I particularly appreciate the connotation that we should all just reinvent ourselves in quirky and unique ways as a means to stay vital and creative, and that somehow lemonade will come of it. Balderdash! This kind of passive crap is starting to creep through all levels of the profession/discipline. I sincerely hope that there are more people out there who are extremely angry and frustrated by this mess, and would appeal to the media to stop sugarcoating the destructive cycle of this crisis.
I know this is a late response and you're likely not to answer, but bzkr, what are you suggesting be done? Will angry posts on a website generate more lemonade from the sky than will getting out and talking to people who need an architect?
Yes, it's a shitty state of affairs, it truly is. But there are people succeeding at trying something new - are you saying they should stop succeeding and join you in complaining instead? What concrete advice can you give on improving things?
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