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sutcac
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
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Location: Arroyo Grande, CA, USA
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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| solidred wrote: | | Perhaps I should be bolder and ask for more responsibility; ask for design work to do. But I've long figured that if a boss can't see this without me asking, he's not 'getting me'.... |
This kind of reminds me of marriage counseling 101 where you first learn that no successful relationship (not limited to marriage, of course) can be based on mind-reading. I think you figure wrong here. You never get anywhere in life without, at a minimum, asking for what you want.
| solidred wrote: | | But still, there's another guy who is known to quickly knock-up some designs in sketchup so, perennially, he still gets the gigs rather than me, who tortuously works and reworks something on every level). |
It sounds to me like what you really need to do is get out on your own as an architect, since you apparently have 10 years of experience, and see what it is actually like to be on the front lines dealing with clients directly. It is only then I think that you will be able to see things through your boss' frame of reference and may see how you often have to make hard compromises to survive to fight another battle. Or, you end up like Howard Roark.
| solidred wrote: | | What I mean is, I've tried to expand by my own efforts and thus by hints. |
Hints? See mind reading above.
| solidred wrote: | | Of course, everything could change with a different employer. Everything. Because I know that there's 110% architectural practice out there. I just have to find it and get it. |
My advice, unsolicited as it may be, it that you can't change the world, but you can change the world in you. I believe you love architecture, and based on almost no evidence, I believe that you are likely talented as well. But your dour dirge really only adds fodder to the skeptics I run into in related industries like construction and finance that think the most "talented" architects often end up in related, or other (music) fields because they can't hack the rigors of the real business world. Until you can come to terms with that, and perhaps lose a bit of the gloss off of your purist ideals, you will likely continue to experience the same fate.
Wasn't it Frank Lloyd Wright that said architecture is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration?
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lise
Joined: 28 Apr 2009
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I think ultimately you have to weigh your interests and figure out what's most important to you. I know a lot of people who love what they're doing so much they think it's worth the less compensation. They figure they spend so much time doing it they want to like it. Ultimately you don't know the future, no matter what you do. I've also learned if you want something you need to ask for it. A lot of times I find that they're do it too. Good luck.
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