Architecture Jobs and Global Recession
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Archi-limbo? How low can you go? How low can you go? How low can you go? When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going!
Twenty-seven-year old Seattle resident [and architect] John Morefield…was laid off not once, but twice in a single year as projects dry up and small firms tighten budgets. So what’s a boy to do? Watch Peanuts cartoons and hang out at the local farmers’ market?
Why yes indeed. Morefield’s concept for Architecture 5¢–edificially inspired by Charles Schulz’s psychiatrist booth for Lucy–is bringing architecture to the people, and people to the architecture. For a nickel, passerby can ask questions that range from simple (”What’s the best insulation to use next to concrete in a basement?”) to complex (”We have a 700-square foot Seattle bungalow and want to add a second story because we’re expecting our first child… Help!”). Source
Selling ideas is a not a feasible business concept in Malaysia, 5¢ pirated software anyone? Bring your own USB thumbdrive! Read the full interview – Great Ideas Department: 5¢ Architecture.
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Architects Say They Are ‘Very Happy’ With Their Job
According to Time Magazine’s survey on Job Happiness, 53.5% out of an unknown numbers of architects surveyed appears to be very happy with their job, I wonder what happen to the 46.5%?
Draftsman on the other hand happens to be the worst in the architecture industry, under paid for their knowledge and capabilities, I believe draftsman deserve more, no wonder they are sober, Mr.Architect can’t run an office without a draftsperson, can he/she?
A friend of my once told me, an architect does not draft or toy around with AutoCAD, it’s the draftsperson’s job. Graduate architects should be humble because working life and studying life are totally different, truth is, and we tend to think that the world revolves around us.
Anyway, what defines happiness? The idea of being underpaid and loyal to your boss? Or the fact that your very own design framed itself onto the cityscape? My colleague once told me, happiness in architecture is when you’re paid according to your skills and capabilities with your works being appreciated.
As for me, happiness is where the monies are. There is an old saying and it goes: ‘money can’t buy love’, but remember this, money has the potential to create a window of opportunity for love to blossom. Pretty much like happiness, money can’t buy happiness, but at least it gives you the opportunity to be artificially happy for a short period.
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