Your First Architectural Job is Important
Pretty simple and straightforward sentence – “Your first architectural job is important.” Let me clarify that I’m not talking about summer jobs or internships … those don’t really count. No, what I’m talking about is the first real job a person takes once they’ve graduated from college – the job that signals the beginning of their professional […]
Pretty simple and straightforward sentence – “Your first architectural job is important.” Let me clarify that I’m not talking about summer jobs or internships … those don’t really count. No, what I’m talking about is the first real job a person takes once they’ve graduated from college – the job that signals the beginning of their professional career.
Yesterday, I took a lunchtime site visit with Landon Williams, a young associate in my office, to check in on the construction progress of this year’s playhouse. During the return leg of this trip, we had a conversation about first jobs. It seems to me that very few people take a position in one man shops anymore – something that was fairly common when I graduated from college in 1992. Some of you might recall that the economy was in poor shape and jobs for recently graduated architects were hard to find. A great many of the people I graduated with had a hard time finding work and took whatever job they could find – most of which were in very small a...
Pretty simple and straightforward sentence – “Your first architectural job is important.” Let me clarify that I’m not talking about summer jobs or internships … those don’t really count. No, what I’m talking about is the first real job a person takes once they’ve graduated from college – the job that signals the beginning of their professional career.
Yesterday, I took a lunchtime site visit with Landon Williams, a young associate in my office, to check in on the construction progress of this year’s playhouse. During the return leg of this trip, we had a conversation about first jobs. It seems to me that very few people take a position in one man shops anymore – something that was fairly common when I graduated from college in 1992. Some of you might recall that the economy was in poor shape and jobs for recently graduated architects were hard to find. A great many of the people I graduated with had a hard time finding work and took whatever job they could find – most of which were in very small a...
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